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Philip Wagner, son of Anton Wagner from Calbach, & Anna Maria [surname not recorded], adopted daughter of Conrad Reuther from Lieblos, were married on 15 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.

Philipp Wagner, a farmer, his wife Anna [Maria], and brother Johann [Adam] (age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Kronverk under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Ilyin.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Households No. 79 and 80.

Ernst Trey, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Eleonora (age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kutter in Household No. 84. They had settled there on 16 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Ernst Trey came from the German region of Isenburg.

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

Johann Georg Ruppel, a farmer, his wife [Maria] Elisabeth, and wife's sister Katharina [surname not recorded] (age 36) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard the Russian pink Vologda under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter on 29 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 52.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that [Johann] Georg Ruppel came from the German region of Isenburg.

Johann Traudt and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the snow-brig Die Frau Dietrika under the command of Skipper Joachim Friedrich Luhn.

Johann Trod [sic] and his wife Barbara Elisabeth are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter on 29 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 66.

Johann Georg Ruhl (age 6), son of the deceased Philipp Ruhl, is recorded on the 1767 census of Kutter in Household No. 1 along with the Christoph Brenning family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Ruhl and Brenning families.

The 1767 census does not record from where Johann Georg Ruhl came.

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

Johann Adam Roth was born in 1705. He lived in Lichenroth, but it is uncertain whether that is also where he was born. His son, Heinrich Roth, was born in 1744 in Birstein.

Heinrich Roth, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.

Johann Reinecke, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Eleonora, and children (Susanna, age 12; Johann, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kutter in Household No. 57. They had settled there on 29 July 1767.

Johann Reinecke and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kutter in Household No. Kt58.

The 1767 census records that Johann Reinecke came from the German region of Isenburg.

Andreas Reichert, a farmer, his wife Anna [Sabina], and son Johann (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Grapp.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter on 29 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 70.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Andreas Reichert came from the German region of Isenburg.

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

 Johann Christoph Reichert & Anna Margaretha Jörg were married on 28 May 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.

Christoph Reichert, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the Russian galliot Strelna under the command of Lieutenant Sornev.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter on 8 July 1767 where Christoph is recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 35 along with his new wife Anna Katharina.

Ludwig Orsulet, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Johann Philipp, age 15; Anna Katharina, age 10; Anna Dorothea, age 6) settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter on 29 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 61.

The 1767 census records that Ludwig Orsulet came from the German region of Isenburg.