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Johann Christian Müller, his wife Wendelt, and son Christian (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Joh.Christ. Müller, his wife Wendell, and son Christian (age 1½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Christian died en route.

Johann Adam Meÿer [sic] and Elisabeth Heil were married on 3 October 1765 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Adam Meier, a wool carder (Wollschläger), his wife Elisabeth, and son Nikolaus (age 6-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 31. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.

The 1767 census records that Adam Meier came from the German region of Nassau-Usingen.

Hinrich Marcks [sic], a vintner (Weinkrüger) from Konigsberg, & Maria Philippina Hartmann, born in Nassau-Usingen, were married on 22 August 1766 in Pastor Bruns's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Heinrich Marx and his wife Philippina Hartmann arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.

Widow Margaretha Martin settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 17 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 228.

The 1767 census records that Margaretha Martin came from the German village of Orb.

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

Magdalena Elisabeth Schmick, daughter of Georg Philipp Schmick & Anna Elisabeth Lehning was born about 1750, probably in Büdingen.

The Büdingen marriage register records the marriage there of Maria Magdalena Schmick, daughter of the late Philipp Schmick of Büdingen, to Peter Iserle, a baker from Ettenheim near Strasburg [sic] on 9 May 1766.