Heinrich Fleischer, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Schulz on 15 June 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 26.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Fleischer was a cobbler while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Fleischer came from the German region of Stolberg. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Fleischer came from the German village of Lindenberg in the Stolberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Fleischer family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 266.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 126.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1913.
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