Scherer (Sewald)
Michael Scherer, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and children (Barbara, age 8; Johann, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 on a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Nikolai (St. Nicholas) under the command of Midshipman Thomas McKenzie.
Michael Scherer and his wife Apollonia are recorded on the 1767 census of Sewald in Household No. 22. They had settled there on 20 August 1767.