Daniel Halter [sic], a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughters (Maria, age 17¼; Anna, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Daniel Harter, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and daughters (Maria Elisabeth, age 18; Anna Margreta, age 3) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Anna Margreta died en route.
Daniel Hergert [sic], a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and daughter Maria Elisabeth (age 18) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 106. They had arrived in Dönhof on 18 June 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Daniel Harter came from the German region of Zweibrücken.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Harter family among the Volga German colonies.
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