Kaspar Mechwart, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughters (Katharina, age 16½; Anna, age 11; Elisabeth, age 7; Margaretha, age 4; Elisabeth, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard a pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
Kaspar Mechwart, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughters (Katharina, age 11; Elisabeth, age 8; Elisabeth, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 86. They had arrived in Dönhof on 18 June 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Mechwart came from the German region of Dienheim. The 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Würzburg.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Dh005.
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Brent Mai