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Johann Heinrich Popp arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 July 1772 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hartwig.

He settled in the Volga German colony of Pobochnaya on 4 July 1773.

He is recorded on a 1773 list of Pobochnaya settlers (No. 24). His sisters are believed to be recorded on this 1773 list of Pobochnaya settlers (No. 10).

Heinrich Popp and his family (sons: Johann Georg, age 22; Jakob, age 18; Konrad, age 16; Friedrich, age 14) are recorded on the 1798 census of Pobochnaya in Household No. Pb17.

Johann Georg Otto [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 July 1772 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hartwig.

He settled in the Volga German colony of Pobochnaya on 4 July 1773.

He is recorded on a 1773 list of Pobochnaya settlers (No. 25).

Georg Ott [sic] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pobochnaya in Household No. Pb20. His death in 1817 is recorded on the 1834 census of Pobochnaya in Houseihold No. 38.

David Heinrich Niesper arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 July 1772 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hartwig. He settled in the Volga German colony of Pobochnaya on 4 July 1773.

He is recorded on a 1773 list of Pobochnaya settlers (No. 23).

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

Karl Müller arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 July 1772 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hartwig.

He settled in the Volga German colony of Pobochnaya on 4 July 1773.

He is recorded on a 1773 list of Pobochnaya settlers (No. 32).

Johann Nikolaus Lamm and his wife Anna Katharina Schneider arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 July 1772 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hartwig.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Pobochnaya on 4 July 1773.

They are recorded on a 1773 list of Pobochnaya settlers (No. 18).

Philipp Krumm arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 July 1772 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hartwig.

He settled in the Volga German colony of Pobochnaya on 4 July 1773.

He is recorded on a 1773 list of Pobochnaya settlers (No. 23).

Johann Heinrich Knack, son of Wolff Heinrich & Anna Dorothea Knack from Calbach, was baptized in Büdingen on 2 June 1746.  Maria Magdalena Seitz, daughter of Ernst Peter Seitz, was born in Langen-Bergheim on 31 December 1742 and baptized in Eckartshausen on 4 January 1743.

Johann Heinrich Köhler, son of Christian & Susanna Köhler from Calbach, was baptized in Büdingen on 20 May 1742. Johann Heinrich married Catharina Emrich, daughter of Conrad Emrich from Bleichenbach, on 29 May 1766 in Büdingen.

Johann Heinrich Köhler & Catharina Emrich had two children who were born in Calbach and baptized in Büdingen: (1) Anna Catharina, born 23 October 1767, baptized 25 October 1767; and (2) Johann Georg, born 3 January 1771, baptized 6 January 1771.

Elisabeth Helmut (age 32) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 July 1772 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hartwig. She arrived along with her sister Katharina and brother-in-law Ernst Appel.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Pobochnaya on 4 July 1773.

They are recorded on a 1773 list of Pobochnaya settlers (No. 21).

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

Christoph Falk arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 July 1772 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hartwig.

He settled in the Volga German colony of Pobochnaya on 4 July 1773.

He is recorded on a 1773 list of Pobochnaya settlers (No. 29).

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