Andreas Ring, a carpenter, his wife Margaretha, and children (Andreas, age 21; Hans, age 17¼; Johann, age 13; Margaretha, age 9; Christian, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 on a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Nikolai (St. Nicholas) under the command of Midshipman Thomas McKenzie. Andreas died after arriving in Russia, and his widow Margaretha remarried to Christian David.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel on 1 July 1767. Oldest son Andreas and his new wife are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16. The rest of the Ring children are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 7 along with the Christian David family.
They 1767 census records that son Andreas came from the German village of Albshausen near Darmstadt while the 1767 census records that the remaining Ring children came from the German village of Kork in the region of Darmstadt.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 330.
- 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): Dt19, Dt52, Dt58, Dt64.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 282, 286.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2446.
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