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Johann Ulrich, his wife Charlotte, and sons (Samuel, age 5; Jakob, age 2) are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 152.

Johann Gottfried Turin, his wife Margaretha, and son Johann (age 20) are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 165.

Son Johann is recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in household No. Gm141.

Johann Georg Späth, his wife Anna Eva, and daughters (Anna Christina, age 7; Juliana, age 3; Katharina, age 1-month) are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 69.

Daughter Anna Juliana Späth is recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Household No. Gm075.

Daughter Maria Magdalena Späth from Grimm is recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk016.

Daughter Elisabeth Späth from Grimm is recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk106.

Johann Samuel Walter, a single chimney sweep (Schornsteinfeger), settled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 12 May 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 56 along with a note that he was working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter) in the household of Friedrich Lippmann.

The 1767 census records that Johann Samuel Walter came from the German village of Weisel [?] in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).

There are no known surviving male lines of this Walter family among the Volga German colonies.

Johann Walter, a farmer, his wife Christina, daughter Maria (age ½), and stepdaughter Katharina [surname not recorded] (age 15) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dinkel in Household No. 11. They had settled there on 12 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Walter came from the German village of Wolfhagen in the Hessen-Kassel region.

Christian Sander, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Maria, age 15; Johann, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.

Son Johann (age 12) is recorded on the 1767 census of Dinkel in Household No. 37 along with the Hans Hartmann family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Sander and Hartmann families.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Sander came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony).

Joachim Christoph Petersen and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.

Johann Chris. Petersen and his wife Anna are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Christoph Peterson, a hunter (Jäger), and his [new] wife Regina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 35.

Gottfried Simon Weber, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and sons (Johann Georg, age 6; Daniel, age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dietel in Household No. 17. They had settled there on 1 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Gottfried Simon Weber came from the German village of Haßloch in the Kurpfalz region.

Valentin Wiegener, a farmer, his wife Maria Regina, and children (Anna Margaretha, age 11; Johann Georg, age 7; Maria Katharina, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dietel in Household No. 28. They had settled there on 1 July 1767.

Georg Wiegener from Dietel is recorded on the 1798 census of Degott in Household No. Dg06 along with a note that he is with his family in Bauer.

Christian Heinrich, a farmer, and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 12 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 31.

The 1767 census records that Christian Heinrich came from the German village of Güstrow in the Mecklenburg region.