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Widow Anna Tecker [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Widow Anna Decker is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony she settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anna Decker came from the German region of Holstein.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Decker family among the Volga German colonies.

Georg Greif, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Johann Georg Greiff is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Greif came from the German region of Semihall [?].

Martin Drosch, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Martin Troitsch [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin Drosch came from the German region of Anhalt.

Paul Dimmel [sic], a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Widow Elisabeth Dillmer is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony the widow Elisabeth Dillmer settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Paul Dillmer came from the German region of Württemberg.

Martin Wittmann, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Widow Anna [sic] Wittmann is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony the widow Wittmann settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin Wittmann came from the German village of Rastatt.

Hans Peters, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and son Franz (age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Hans Peters is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Hans Peters came from the German region of Holstein.

Widow Anna Schneider and her daughter Katharina (age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Widow Anna Schneider is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony she settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that widow Anna Schneider came from the German region of the Pfalz.

Heinrich Nagel, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Heinrich Nagel is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Nagel came from the German region of Erbach.

The child Johann Berth (age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann along with Paul Rolandt, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughters (Maria, age 4; Elisabeth, age 1). A relationship between the Rolandt and Berth families is not recorded.

The widow Anna Rolandt is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that she died in route.

Paul Rolandt, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughters (Maria, age 4; Elisabeth, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann along with the child Johann Berth (age 13). A relationship between the Rolandt and Berth families is not recorded.

The widow Anna Rolandt is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that she died in route.