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Johannes Schork came from the German village of Zell, about 4 miles north of the city of Erbach.  His wife Catharina Elisabeth was born 24 January 1744 in Pfirschbach, the daughter of the shepherd Johannes Bauer. 

Johann Schork, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.

They arrived in the colony of Frank on 1 September 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 103.

Jacob Rausch was born 23 July 1739 in Nieder-Kinzig, son of master carpenter Johann Adam Rausch and his wife Elisabeth [Weber].

Jakob Rausch, a farmer, and his wife Anna Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.

Johann Jacob Rausch, his wife Cathrina, and son Nicolaus (born in route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Heinrich Hof(f)mann, son of Johann Adam Hoffmann (31 August 1704 - 12 August 1771) & Anna Maria Helmstädter (18 July 1708 - 27 October 1752), was born about 1740 in Langen-Brombach.

Johann Heinrich Hofmann married on 22 October 1765 in Michelstadt to Margaretha Elisabeth Göttman from Kirch-Brombach.  Following their marriage, they resided in Langenbrombach.

Johannes Romeis, servant in the castle in Gersfeld, son of Georg Romeis of Kippelbach, was born 30 March 1715 in Kippelbach.  He married 28 June 1748 in Gersfeld to Anna Heun, daughter of Peter Heun. She had been born 29 November 1717 in Kippelbach. 

Hans Romeis, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Peter, age 19; Anna, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.

Johann Jacob Best [sic], son of Hasnss Jacob & Maria Barbara Best, was born 18 May 1724 in Ochsenbach, Württemberg.

He married Maria Magdalena Henne, daughter of Johann Henne, on 5 November 1748 in Ochsenbach. Anna Christina (baptized Christina Barbara) was born 12 December 1760 in Ochsenbach.