The Guardianship Committee of Foreign Settlers in South Russia

Odessa Archives : Fund (Fond) 6, Inventory 1

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1836-1839* (separate pdf file)

1840-1841* (separate pdf file)

1842-1846 (not filmed yet)

 

Note: The inventories for for 1799-1835 were compiled by Tim Janzen and Tatyana Makarenko.  The inventories for 1836-1839 and 1840-1841 are were translated by Abram Toews, Bielefeld to German from the full Russian-language inventory of the records. Files from 1836-1839 were filmed with a digital camera and images distributed on 4 CDs to most Mennonite archives in North America in March 2006. Files from 1840-1841 were distributed on 6 DVDs to most Mennonite archives in North America in March 2011.  An introduction and English translations of the file abstracts for the files on the 6 DVDs was prepared by Olga Shmakina from the Russian guide book.

*in German

Microfilm No. 792

1799

File 6. File concerning the debt of the Mennonite P. Wiebe to the foreigner G. Fuhrman.

  1. Complaint by Gottfried Fuhrman about the Mennonite Peter Wiebe. Gottfried Fuhrman sued Peter Wiebe for non-payment of the debt for ham that was bought from Mr. Fuhrman.
  2. Order from the New Russia Guardianship Office of Foreign Settlers to the District Mayor of Chortitza Colony, Peter Siemens, about levy of this debt.
  3. Report from the New Russia Guardianship Office of Foreign Settlers about the payment of this debt by Peter Wiebe.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
28 May 1799 to 8 Jun 1799. 4 pages. 10 frames.

1800

File 8. File concerning permission to inspect hot wine in German settlements for the farmer Mr. Apshin's attorneys.

  1. A complaint from the New Russia Lower Court to the Guardianship Office about the fact that farmers are not allowed to inspect hot wine and to review seals on barrels in German settlements.
  2. Warning to all leaders of German settlements about the illegality of this fact. An official report from the Elder of the Chortitza Church, Johann Wiebe, about the rude behavior of farmers.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
8 Aug 1800 to 10 Oct 1800. 9 pages. 19 frames.

File 9. File concerning the conclusion of a contract for the delivery of rye from the landlord Lord Lappo-Danilevsky for Mennonites and other colonists.

  1. Contract documents.
  2. Lists of names of Mennonites in Chortitza, Rosental, Neuenburg, Kronsweide, Neuendorf, Einlage, Schoenhorst, Insel Chortitza, Josephstal, and Jamburg who had received grain. Precise quantity of grain is provided.
  3. Letter from New Russia Civil Governor Yuriy Alekseevich Nikolaev.
  4. Reports from the inspector of the colonies, Governor Secretary (civil official of the 12th rank in tsarist Russia) Peleshenkov and the accountant of the Guardianship Office, Colony Secretary (civil official of the10th rank) Gsell.
  5. Notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
17 Aug 1800 to 29 Oct 1800; 21 Sep 1805. 36 pages. 64 frames.

File 10. File concerning the prohibition against Mennonites from Kronsweide to enter Verbovoy Island (property of the landlord, Mr. Abaza) to cut trees there.

  1. Letters between the Chief of District Police, Lord Lappo-Danilevsky, the Guardianship Office, Ekaterinoslav Civil Governor von Berg, the Ekaterinoslav Government, the Chief of Alexandrovsk District Police K. Hablitz, the Kherson Military Governor, and the mayor of Kronsweide about the conflict between Mennonites from Kronsweide and the landlord, Mr. Abaza, over the right to enter this island.
  2. History of land surveying on Verbovoy Island. Letters of the Court and the Guardianship Office. Oaths of witnesses.
  3. Petition from the landlord, Mr. Abaza, to Emperor Alexander the First.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
3 Aug 1800 to 10 Jun 1808. 423 pages. 579 frames.

File 11. File concerning the confiscation of a cloak from Governor Registrator (civil official of the 14th rank-lowest one in tsarist Russia) Grigory Shepovalenkov by the Mennonite Mr. Krahn of the Chortitza Colony.

  1. Documents about the conflict between Mr. Shapovalenkov and Mennonites from the Chortitza Colony over the payment for his night quarters in their colony; petition from Shapovalenkov; notes from the journal of meetings of the Guardianship Office; reports from the Elder of the Chortitza Church, J. Wiebe.
  2. Abraham Krahn of Neuenberg.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
7 Sep 1800 to 14 Dec 1800. 17 pages. 31 frames.

File 12. Petition from colonists about giving them documents to allow them to leave the colonies for official duties or private business.

  1. Reports from the Inspector of the Josephstal Colony, Mr. Peleshenkov; petition from colonist Johann Kohler (Josephstal); notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office about the petition from Mr. Kohler to leave his colony because of his personal needs.
  2. Reports from the Chortitza Colony District Mayor, Peter Siemens; notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office about temporary permission granted for Johann Neustaedter (Einlage), Johann Rempel (Einlage), Isaak Dietrich, Peter Werner (Einlage), Wilhelm Redekopp, David Loewen, Dietrich and Wilhelm Rempel, Abraham Leike, Jacob Klassen, and Jacob Penner to leave the colonies.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
5 Oct 1800 to 27 Nov 1800. 33 pages. 50 frames.

File 13. File concerning the report from the administrator of Schoenwiese, Mr. Ewert, about the inexcusable behavior of disabled soldiers from the Fortress of Alexandrovsk and their illegal fishing in the Mennonites' waters.

  1. The report from the administrator Mr. Ewert about illegal fishing, damage of meadows to be mowed, and the assault of the Mennonite Mr. Rempel.
  2. Notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office about the resolution of this petition.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
25 Sep 1800 to 23 Nov 1800. 6 pages. 14 frames.

File 18. File concerning the application of the Mennonite P. Unger about clearing him from the obligation to build a mill for Captain Savich, because it had been forced upon him.

  1. A petition from P. Unger of Chortitza to the Guardianship Office.
  2. Official report from Elder J. Wiebe of the village of Chortitza.
  3. Notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office about the consideration of the petition and the direction of it into the New Russia Lower Court.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
6 Dec 1800 to 19 Apr 1801. 12 pages. 24 frames.

File 19. File concerning the official report from Mayor Neufeld from Insel Chortitza about the necessity to prohibit inhabitants of Nieder Chortitza from stealing wood on the island; about the confiscation of five horses that were left on Insel Chortitza by two Russians, Ivan and Gregory, because they were indebted to some Mennonites for 28 rubles, 10 kopecks.

  1. Correspondences from the New Russia Lower Court, the Guardianship Office, the Ekaterinoslav Government Province Administration, the Ekaterinoslav Government, and the Province Public Prosecutor, Mr. Savenko.
  2. Official reports from Mayor Dietrich Neufeld about the theft of wood by the inhabitants of Nieder Chortitza on Insel Chortitza.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
14 Dec 1800 to 8 May 1801. 63 pages. 109 frames.

File 20. File concerning the regulation of clerical work in the colonies.

  1. Notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office.
  2. Official reports from the Elder of the Chortitza Church, J. Wiebe, about receiving the instructions from the Guardianship Office.
  3. Order from the Guardianship Office to the Chortitza, Jamburg, Josephstal, and Kronsgarten village leaders about the mandatory need for all colonists who arrive in the city on private business to come to the office to receive instructions.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
19 Dec 1800 to 1 Oct 1808. 13 pages. 23 frames.

File 22. File concerning the petition from Jacob von Riesen to have his money returned to him that the now deceased Isaak Janzen had borrowed from him.

  1. A petition from Jacob von Riesen about regulating Mr. Janzen's estate because Jacob von Riesen now owns his home and about help in receiving the debt from relatives of Mr. Janzen.
  2. Notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office about collection of the debt from the relatives of Mr. Janzen with the promise to consider the question about the economic debt in future.
  3. Report from Elder J. Wiebe.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
18 Dec 1800 to 30 Jan 1801. 7 pages. 14 frames.

File 23. File concerning the prohibition against Mennonites Johann Schroeder and Peter Unger building a mill for a priest Mr. Muravsky from the village Tomakovka.

  1. Report from District Mayor P. Siemens to the Guardianship Office about starting construction of the mill.
  2. Decision of P. Siemens to hold up construction until they receive an opinion from the Guardianship Office.
  3. Decision of the Guardianship Office signed by S. Contenius to prohibit using of the colony's lumber for any buildings of this kind.
  4. Subsequent report from P. Siemens with petition to permit this building because Mr. Schroeder and Mr. Unger promised to purchase lumber to replace the lumber they wanted to use for the mill.
  5. Subsequent prohibition from the Guardianship Office.
  6. Report from Mr. Siemens about the accomplishment of the order from the Guardianship Office.
  7. Note from the journal of the Guardianship Office about this case.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
27 Dec 1800 to 7 Mar 1801. 9 pages. 18 frames.

File 24. File concerning a cattle plague in the colonies from 1800 to 1805.

  1. Reports from inspectors of the colonies, Mr. Peleshenkov, Mr. Shemiot, and Mr. Develdeev, Baron Ikskul, and Mr. Gastfer about a cattle plague in their colonies.
  2. Reports from the mayors of the Jamburg, Kronsgarten, Danzig, Chortitza, Swedish, Belowesch, and Bulgarian Colonies about the same matter with information about numbers of dead and sick cattle.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
23 Aug 1800 to 12 May 1809. 109 pages. 141 frames.

File 26. File concerning the debt of Mennonites from Kronsgarten and colonists from Jamburg for grain (for food and sowing) that they borrowed from stores in the Poltava and Kremenchug Districts in 1793, 1794, and 1795. This case was brought forth by Civil Governor Nikolaev.

  1. Correspondence from the Governor of New Russia, Mr. Nikolaev, the Guardianship Office, and the New Russia Government Chamber about the debt of colonists, about the allowance to pay this debt in installments, about giving passports for colonists to ride to Keleberda in the Poltava District to return the grain, and about forgiving part of the debt because of a bad harvest.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Governor of Poltava; information from the government of the Poltava District, where accounting of this debt ran for 14 years; papers about receiving part of this debt from the government of Keleberda. Cossack. (1808, 1810, 1814).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
31 Aug 1800 to 22 Oct 1817. 146 frames. 256 frames.

File 27. Order from the Guardianship Office to all colonies to send registers about sowing and harvest.

  1. Instructions from the Guardianship Office to the Elder of the Chortitza Church, J. Wiebe, and the Inspector of Josephstal Colony, Mr. Peleshenkov, to keep registers on the harvest and sowing of grain; example of this register; registers of the owners of the colonies: Chortitza, Insel Chortitza, Einlage, Kronsweide, Neuenburg, Neuendorf, Schoenhorst, Jamburg, Schoenwiese, Rosenthal, Kronsgarten, Swedish, and Josephstal which include information about sowing and harvest of rye, wheat, buckwheat, oats, and barley.
  2. Special registers (with last names) concerning the sowing of rye in the autumn of 1800.
  3. Reports from Mr. Schultz of the Danzig Colony and the Inspector of the Josephstal Colony; a note from the journal of the Guardianship Office.
  4. Report from the Danzig Colony village government to the Guardianship Office about this matter.

These documents are written in both German and Russian.
27 Sep 1800 to 12 Nov 1803. 79 pages. 148 frames.

File 39. File concerning a decree from the Government Economic Department about the rights and privileges of the Mennonites.

  1. A letter dated September 6th, 1800, from Emperor Paul the First about the rights and privileges of the Mennonites (copy, typographical copy).
  2. A decree by the Government Senate about this.
  3. Notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office of Foreign Settlers about that.

These documents are written in Russian.
6 Sep 1800 to 16 Jan 1801. 6 pages. 14 frames.

File 40. File concerning a decree from the Government Economic Department about the exemption of Mennonites and colonies from the New Russia and New Moscow Districts from debts by the Emperor.

  1. A decree of the Government Senate about the non-collection of debts.
  2. Notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office about this.
  3. Report from the Inspector of the Josephstal Colony, Mr. Peleshenkov.

These documents are written in Russian.
8 Oct 1800 to 11 Dec 1800. 9 pages. 18 frames.

Microfilm 791

File 42. File concerning the election of mayors, assistants, and foremen in the colonies.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with rural local governing bodies about elections in the following colonies and villages: Einlage, Kronsweide, Neuenburg, Neuendorf, Chortitza, Nieder Chortitza, Insel Chortitza, Rosenthal, Schoenwiese, Schoenhorst, Jamburg, Danzig, Josephstal, Kronsgarten, and Burwalde; Ternovka, Neusatz, Kamenka (Novomoskovsk District); the Molotschna Mennonite Colony villages of Halbstadt, Muntau, Schoenau, Fischau, Lindenau, Lichtental, Blumstein, Muensterberg, and Altonau (since 1805); Rybalsk, Zuerichtal, Heilbrunn, Sudak, Baltachokrak, Chokurcha, Kishlav, Klosterdorf, Muehlhausendorf, and Schlangendorf (since 1806).
  2. Voters' lists with the names of the owners of the Chortitza, Molotschna, and Swedish Colonies (during 1801-1812).
  3. A register of incomes and expenses of the public monies from the Ternovsk Colony for 1806.
  4. A presentation to the Guardianship Office by the Court Counselor, Mr. Rosenkampf.
  5. Reports from the Inspectors of the Molotschna Colony (Baron Ikskul and Mr. Sieber); the Crimean Colony (Mr. Gastfer), the Swedish Colony (Mr. Gsell and Mr. Dalke), the Josephstal Colony (Mr. Develdeev), the Smolensk Colony (Titular Councilor, Lord Krokovsky), the Ternovsk village government, and reports from village mayors of various colonies.
  6. Reports from the Chiefs of Police of the Elisabethgrad and Simferopol Districts.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
6 Dec 1800 to 21 Jan 1812. 764 pages.
(See the microfilm of selected files from Odessa Archives, Fund 6, Inventory 1 for this file).

Microfilm No. 792

File 43. File concerning the distribution of funds to the elderly residents of Schoenwiese, Kronsgarten, and Josephstal.

  1. Petition from Daniel Von Eitzen of Schoenwiese, Abraham Huebert of Josephstal, and Jacob Penner of Chortitza about the deficiency of the stated money.
  2. Reports from the Elder of the Chortitza Church, J. Wiebe, and District Mayor P. Siemens.
  3. Report from the inspector, Mr. Peleshenkov, to the Guardianship Office.
  4. Petition from Mayor Jacob Bartel Mewsen of Kronsgarten.
  5. Note from the Guardianship Office about these petitions.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
1789, 24 Oct 1800 to 27 Mar 1803. 31 pages. 48 frames.

1801

File 45. File concerning the Mennonite Heinrich Dyck who came to poverty and about the transfer of his home to the Mennonite Gerhard Enns.

  1. Official reports from District Mayor P. Siemens from the Chortitza Colony.
  2. Notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office about the reasons for Mr. Dyck's poverty, his death, and the solution to transfer his home to Mr. Enns.
  3. The applications of Mr. Enns for the elimination of the personal debts of Mr. Dyck.
  4. A solution by the Guardianship Office to transfer the debt of the deceased Mr. Dyck to Mr. Enns.

These documents are written in both Russian and German. The documents are in bad condition as mold has damaged some of the documents.
20 Dec 1800 to 28 May 1801. 22 pages. 35 frames.

File 46. Statistics about the numbers of colonists compiled by the Guardianship Office of Foreign Settlers.

  1. Statistics registers compiled by the Guardianship Office in the various districts of the Ekaterinoslav, Kherson, Chernigov, and Taurida Provinces and in the Crimea for 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1811, and 1812.
  2. The statistical pages contain the number of colonists in the districts, the names of the villages, the numbers of families that lived in indicated villages, and the total number of females and males.
  3. The statistical data for 1816, 1818, and 1819 contains additional information about the total number of settlers in these areas and the nationality of colonists in the Ekaterinoslav colonies.
  4. A financial statement by the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office of Foreign Settlers in 1819.
  5. A register of colonists who had recently arrived in the Chortitza, Molotschna, Josephstal and Danzig Colonies in 1818; contains the number of families and the amount of property they brought with them (money, horses, and carts).

These documents are written in Russian.
11 Jun 1801 to 23 Sep 1819. 84 pages. 141 frames.

File 48. File concerning the regulation of financial reports in the Josephstal, Kronsgarten, and Jamburg Colonies.

  1. An order from the Guardianship Office about the necessity to have a special accounting book of finances (a register of incomes and expenses of the public monies) in the colonies.
  2. Reports from the village leaders, inspectors, and the accountant, Mr. Gsell, about the fulfillment of this order.
  3. Registers of incomes and expenses of the public monies for 1806, 1807, 1808, and from January to September, 1814; monthly registers for 1808, 1805, 1810, 1812 (partly), and 1814 (partly).
  4. Notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office about receipt of the reports from the inspectors and mayors.
  5. A list of the colonists from the Josephstal and Rybalsk Colony who received saplings of cherry trees.
  6. Draft of a shed for silkworm storage and plans for its construction.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
11 Feb 1801 to 27 Jun 1828. 815 pages. 1264 frames.

Microfilm No. 793

File 49. File concerning the audit of orphans' money in the Josephstal Colony. This file was compiled because of the embezzlement of this money by Mr. Hertz, Mr. Nitzel, and Mr. Schnakenberg from the Josephstal Colony.

  1. Orders from the Guardianship Office about an audit, lists of all colonists who received this money, list of orphans to whom this money belonged (dated 1819), reports, correspondence and other paper work (list of participants provided).
  2. List dated December 12, 1804 of heads of households in the Chortitza Colony from whom monies were received (frames 92-99).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
15 Aug 1798 to 5 Nov 1820. 244 pages. 410 frames.

File 50. File concerning an order by the Senate and the Government Economic Department to send some members of the Guardianship Office to village of Vishenka in the Chernigov Province. Also about the initiation of collecting various taxes from Hutterites in Radichev.

  1. 1. An order about the transfer of state lands to the Hutterites who were settled in the village of Vishenka (1801). (This land had been previously rented to them). This village belonged to Count S. P. Rumyantsev. A certificate written by Mr. Brigonzi about these lands.
  2. Descriptions of the villages Ivankovo, Radichev, and Budishe of the Novgorod-Seversk District. The plan of the state lands which were transferred to the Hutterites in Vishenka.
  3. Correspondence about the resettlement of the Vishenka Hutterites, their establishment in a new place, and about their acquisition of household effects.
  4. Lists and the table of lands of the Radichev Hutterites (1801).
  5. A census written in German of the Hutterites living in Vishenka dated May 22, 1801 (frames 75-82).
  6. A list containing information about trades that were done by the settlers in 1806.
  7. Reports written by the Elder of the Vishenka Colony, Mr. Waldner, to the Guardianship Office about the state of affairs of the Vishenka Hutterites in the new settlement (1802-1803) and about the history and state of the Radichev Colony (1803).
  8. Reports written by Radichev Brotherhood to the Guardianship Office concerning economic questions, financial situations, and the return of state debts (1804-1816).
  9. A census written in Russian of the Hutterites living in Radichev dated April 21, 1806 (frames 551-556).
  10. The draft of the furnace (for glazing of azure crockery) with the description (1803).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
28 Jun 1801 to 14 Dec 1815. 530 pages. 855 frames.

File 51. Instructions regarding cattle plague that were written because of an order by the Government Economic Department.

  1. Notice about sending instructions to the colonies for preventing cattle plague.
  2. Reports from the inspectors of the Molotschna Colony and colonies in the Crimea about cattle plague and correspondence regarding it.
  3. Information about dead cattle in Chortitza and Swedish Colonies with information about the owners of these cattle (1809).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
19 Jul 1801 to 31 Dec 1801; May 1808 to 5 Dec 1814. 506 pages. 593 frames.

File 53. File concerning the seeds which the Frisian Mennonites borrowed from Emperor Alexander's store in 1794.

  1. Correspondence from the Chortitza District Office with the Guardianship Office about returning of this purveyance to Emperor Alexander's store.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
12 Aug 1801 to 15 Jan 1806. 44 pages. 79 frames.

File 58. File concerning permission to build a distillery issued to the Kronsgarten Colony. Report written by Mayor Bartel Mewsen of Kronsgarten.

  1. A report from Mayor Bartel Mewsen to the Guardianship Office with a petition to permit building of a distillery in the colony.
  2. Note from the journal of the Guardianship Office about permission to build on certain conditions.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
7 Jan 1801 to 26 Jan 1801. 7 pages. 14 frames.

File 59. File concerning the deportation of the Russian Mr. Matwei, who is currently living in the village of Einlage.

  1. Report written by the Chortitza Colony District Mayor, Peter Siemens.
  2. Reports, including a petition to deport Mr. Matwei, who wouldn't pay the community for fishing and pasture according to the contract; notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office supporting the petition from the mayor.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
3 Jan 1801 to 7 Feb 1801. 7 pages. 14 frames.

File 60. Petition written by the retired soldier Mr. Posovayla about giving him money due to him for grazing cattle in the Chortitza Colony.

  1. Petition from Mr. Posovayla to Samuel X. Contenius about a sum for cattle grazing in Rosenthal which Mr. Posovayla didn't receive.
  2. Report from Peter Siemens, the Chortitza Colony District Mayor, with explanation about the reason for this underpayment.
  3. Note from the journal of the Guardianship Office about this case.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
5 Jan 1801 to 11 Feb 1801. 6 pages. 14 frames.

File 64. File concerning estates which were passed from one Mennonite or colonist to another because of death or other cause during 1801.

  1. Correspondence from the Mayor of the Danzig German Colony (Elisabethgrad District), Johann Lessing, consisting of the petition to take away the house of Michael Pritzkau.
  2. Correspondence from the Chortitza Colony District Mayor, P. Siemens, about estates which were passed from Peter Neufeld and Martin Ens to Gerhard Epp and Peter Epp of Rosenthal; from the deceased Nicholas Heide of Einlage to Johann Neufeld; from Peter Mantler to his son in Neuendorf; from Jacob Schwartz to David Loewen; from the deceased Heinrich Dyck to Heinrich Wiebe; from Peter Siemens of Rosenthal to Johann Loeppke; from the deceased Dietrich Neufeld to Peter Wiebe; from the deceased Gerhard Doerksen to Franz Berg including a brief inventory of the estate; from Martin Doerksen to Franz Thiessen; from the deceased Leonhard Janzen of Einlage to Johann Hiebert; from the deceased parent to Georg Krahn; about the trusteeship of the above estates of Gerhard Braun and Herman Neufeld and the inventory of the estates.
  3. Correspondence from the Chortitza District Office about estates which were passed from the deceased Franz Kroeker of Rosenthal to Julius Toews; from the deceased Heinrich Klassen of Rosenthal to Phillip Kauenhowen; from the deceased Jacob Loewen of Neuenburg to Peter Reimer; from Phillip Dyck to son Abraham Dyck.
  4. Correspondence from the Mayor of Chortitza, Franz Dyck, about estates which were passed from the deceased Heinrich Dyck to Jacob Wiens of Rosenthal; from Gerhard Penner to Gerhard Wiebe, including a brief inventory of the estate; from Martin Penner to his son-in-law Bernhard von Bergen.
  5. Correspondence from the Mayor of Schoenwiese, Johann Ewert, about an estate that was passed from Jacob Neufeld to Franz Janzen of Kronsweide and about trusteeship of the above estate of the deceased Aron Martens, including an inventory of the estate.
  6. Correspondence from the Mayor of Jamburg, Bartel Lutz, about the transfer of the house of the deceased Mr. Piller to Michael Lauttenschlager of Jamburg and about the assignment to trustees Friedrich Neidan and Johann Klein the above property of the deceased Johann Gerbrandt of Rybalsk. This includes an inventory of the property.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
This file is missing the beginning and end pages.
18 Jan 1801 to 9 Jun 1803. 297 pages. 426 frames.

Microfilm No. 791

File 65. Reports from the colonies to the Guardianship Office about birth rates and death rates in the colonies.

  1. Registers of births, deaths, and marriages of the colonists from the Chortitza Colony (villages of Chortitza, Schoenhorst, Neuendorf, Neuenburg, Kronsweide, Einlage, Schoenwiese, Rosenthal, Insel Chortitza) January-November, 1801, January-May, July-November, 1802, January-May, 1803, and January-May, 1806. Statistical summary page for 1801.
  2. Statistical information for 1801, 1802, and 1803 for the Swedish, Josephstal, Rybalsk, Kronsgarten, Jamburg, and Danzig Colonies and for the Belowesch Colony for 1805.

Correspondence, including a list of participants.
These documents are written in both Russian and German.
2 Jan 1801 to 28 May 1806. 139 pages.
(See the microfilm of selected files from Odessa Archives, Fund 6, Inventory 1 for this file).

Microfilm No. 793

File 66. File concerning a report written by Mayor Ewert about Mennonites from Schoenwiese who divided community money among themselves.

  1. A report from Mayor Johann Ewert about the distribution of money by the Mennonites, which was against an order from the Guardianship Office.
  2. Report from Peter Siemens, the Chortitza Colony District Mayor.
  3. Notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office.
  4. List of names of the people who made a contract about a lease in Schoenwiese.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
24 Jan 1801 to 26 Jun 1801. 14 pages. 27 frames.

Microfilm No. 791

File 67. 1801 Chortitza Colony Census and economic information; economic information about the Josephstal and Jamburg Colonies during 1801.

  1. A census of the Chortitza Colony taken in 1801. Information also provided about the sowing and harvesting of crops in the Chortitza Colony, Josephstal, and Jamburg Colonies.

These documents are written in German.
26 Jan 1801 to 27 Feb 1802. 118 pages.
(See the microfilm of selected files from Odessa Archives, Fund 6, Inventory 1 for this file).

Microfilm No. 793

File 68. File concerning the establishment of a ferry across the Dnepr River near Einlage. Written announcement by the New Russia Minor Court.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Minor Court, the Guardianship Office, the New Russia State Chamber, and the Chortitza District Office about the establishment (at the expense of the State Chamber) of a ferry over the Dnepr River near Einlage (en route from New Russia to the Alexandrovsk Fortress), and about transfer of this ferry to the Chortitza Colony Mennonites under the stipulation that they will ferry all people over the Dnepr River free of charge; an estimate of the costs of this project.
  2. Correspondence from the New Russia Minor Court, the Guardianship Office, the New Russia State Chamber, and the Chortitza District Office about the need to guard the ferry and to arrest runaway serfs.
  3. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office and the Chortitza District Office with the Chief of State Police, Mr. Zolotnitsky, about a prohibition against Mennonites being ferrymen in Einlage because this was the state ferry; about a prohibition to the Mennonites against ferrying "strangers". They could only use it for themselves.
  4. Reports written by the Chortitza District Office concerning the state ferry over the Dnepr River at Einlage and rowing over Moskovka River in the village of Schoenwiese.
  5. A statement written by the Ekaterinoslav Civil Governor to the Guardianship Office about cases of arrest on the ferry in Einlage.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
31 Jan 1801 to 17 Dec 1814; 31 Jan 1827 to 30 May 1828. 105 pages. 185 frames.

File 79. Petition written by the Mennonites Gerhard Penner and the widow of Mr. Rempel to the Guardianship Office to issue them passports to move to Prussia and about the lease of their properties to other people.

  1. This file has been lost.

19 Feb 1801 to 14 Jun 1801. 38 pages.

File 87. File about the eradication of gophers by flushing them out of their holes.

  1. Injunction to the Guardianship Office to start eradication of gophers in the colonies.
  2. Order from the Guardianship Office about eradication.
  3. Report from Peter Siemens, the Chortitza Colony District Mayor, and the Mayor of Swedish Colony, Mr. Christianson, about the fulfillment of this order.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
4 Apr 1801 to 26 Jun 1801. 10 pages. 20 frames.

File 91. Report written by District Mayor Siemens about Trofim Zaitsev, who had four horses without proper documentation.

  1. About the fact that Mr. Zaitsev didn't register his horses in his passport.
  2. Report from District Mayor Siemens about two missing Mennonite horses and the four unregistered horses of Mr. Zaitsev.
  3. Note from the New Russia District Court about this petition.

These documents are written in Russian.
2 May 1801 to 3 Jun 1801. 9 pages. 17 frames.

Microfilm No. 791

File 92. File concerning sending Mennonites who were living away from the Chortitza Colony back to the colony. Information about the wealth of all of the colonies and about the weather.

  1. A report written by the District Mayor of the Chortitza Colonies, P. Siemens, with the list of names of young owners and young unmarried Mennonites who served as workers in the villages of Chortitza, Schoenhorst, Neuenburg, Kronsweide, Einlage, and Rosenthal, as well as information about Mennonites who had left the colony.
  2. Reports written by mayors about the welfare of the colonies and about accidents.
  3. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office, P. Siemens, the New Russia Minor Court, and Inspector Peleshenkov concerning the need for P. Friesen, Mr. Jantzen, Mr. Hiebert, and Mr. Andreas to return to the Chortitza Colony since they had previously left the colony.
  4. Reports written by the District Mayor of the Chortitza Colonies, P. Siemens, about the weather in the colonies of the district.
  5. A report written by the Mayor of the Jamburg Colony, B. Lutz, about cattle plague in the colony.
  6. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with Inspector Peleshenkov regarding the fire in the house of Jacob Emrich in the Rybalsk Colony.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
25 Apr 1801 to 6 May 1802. 75 pages.
(See the microfilm of selected files from Odessa Archives, Fund 6, Inventory 1 for this file).

Microfilm No. 793

File 97. Report written by District Mayor Siemens about the prohibition given to the farmer Mr. Goetz in regards to selling wine to Mennonites from Kronsweide.

  1. Reports from P. Siemens; notes from the Guardianship Office; questionnaire from the Guardianship Office to be used in questioning of administrative assistants (beisitzers) from the village of Kronsweide, Mr. Pauls and Mr. Siemens; and the decision of the Guardianship Office to restrict the Mennonite farmer Jacob Goetz from selling wine in the village of Kronsweide.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
21 May 1801 to 29 Jul 1801. 27 pages. 48 frames.

Microfilm No. 791

File 98. File written about an order from the Guardianship Office to village governments about the compilation of information regarding the numbers of people and the economical situation in the colonies.

  1. A directive written by the Guardianship Office about the necessity to draw up population reports twice a year (every year in April and October) to be sent to the Guardianship Office.
  2. Reports written by the Chortitza Colony District Mayor, P. Siemens, the Mayor of the Danzig Colony, Mr. Lesin, the Mayor of the Swedish Colony, Mr. Christianson, the Elder of the Radichev Colony, J. Waldner, the Belowesch District Office, and the Ternovsk Village Office on the same subject.
  3. Reports written by inspectors of the colonies on the same subject.
  4. The report written by the Secretary of the Guardianship Office.
  5. The decree from the Government Economic Department to the Guardianship Office to nullify the unfair decision of the Guardianship Office concerning the decay of the estate of Peter Nikkel of Kronsweide.
  6. Economic lists of the Josephstal Colonies with lists of the families in the Josephstal, Rybalsk, Kronsgarten, and Jamburg Colonies in 1801, the village of Neuenburg in 1802, and the Swedish and Danzig Colonies in 1803.
  7. Statistical data from the Chortitza District Office containing information about the economical situation in the villages of Chortitza, Rosenthal, Burwalde, Nieder Chortitza, Schoenwiese, Insel Chortitza, Einlage, Kronsweide, Neuenburg, Neuendorf, Schoenhorst in 1803, the Ternovsk and Ingulsk Colony in 1806, the Radichev Brotherhood in 1807, and the Danzig District Office in 1808.
  8. A list containing information about the amount of the grain that was reserved in the Chortitza store from 1800 to 1807.
  9. Lists of the families in the Lutheran colonies of Josephstal and Rybalsk; a list of names from the Swedish Colony in 1802 and the Danzig Colony in 1803; a list of the families of Hutterites from the Radichev Colony in 1803.
  10. Statistical lists containing information about the number of births, deaths, and marriages of the settlers in the Bulgarian and Radichev Hutterite Colonies in 1803, the Chortitza Colony in 1807, and the Belowesch Colony in June, 1808; information about Jacob Emrich of the Rybalsk Colony.
  11. Lists of the colonist families from Orel who had paid the land rent for 1801.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
31 May 1801 to 4 Jul 1808. 388 pages.
(See the microfilm of selected files from Odessa Archives, Fund 6, Inventory 1 for this file).

Microfilm No. 793

File 103. Report written by the Chortitza District Office about help given to the Mennonite Isbrand Rempel so he could inherit an estate. Information about the recognition of Isbrand Rempel as the official heir to the estate of Peter Wolf.

  1. Report from District Mayor P. Siemens; note from the journal of the Guardianship Office; the decision of the Guardianship Office about the petition from the Mennonite Mr. Rempel from Einlage acknowledging him as heir to Peter Wolf's estate.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
4 Oct 1801 to 28 Oct 1801. 4 pages. 12 frames.

1802

File 106. File concerning the issuance of passports for Mennonites from Kronsgarten, namely Franz Banman, Mr. Bartel Mewsen, and Wilhelm Plenert, to move to Prussia.

  1. This file has been lost.

29 Feb 1802 to 25 Jun 1815. 326 pages.

File 108. Petition written by the Mennonite Abraham Janzen from the village of Schoenwiese to sell his mill and spend this money to support his household.

  1. The petition and correspondence regarding this petition.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
17 Apr 1802 to 6 Feb 1803. 14 pages. 27 frames.

1803

File 124. File concerning estates that were transferred from one Mennonite or colonist to another person because of death or other cause during 1803.

  1. Correspondence from the District Mayor of the Chortitza Colony with the Guardianship Office concerning the exchange of the house of Heinrich Epp in Neuenburg for a house in Nieder Chortitza; the transfer of the estate of the deceased Gerhard Braun to his son Johann Braun of Chortitza; the transfer of Johann Funk's estate in Kronsweide to Abraham Unruh for Abraham Unruh's estate; the transfer of Heinrich Siemens' estate in Nieder Chortitza to Jacob Dyck for Jacob Dyck's estate; about the trusteeship over estates belonging to four owners (Cornelius Franzen of Kronsweide, Peter Harms of Nieder Chortitza, Peter Hiebert of Schoenhorst, and Peter Friesen of Neuendorf) because of bad management, including an inventory of each estate; the transfer of his father's property to Bernhard Kauenhowen of Rosenthal; the transfer of the estate of the deceased Isbrandt Rempel to Johann Rempel from Einlage; the transfer of the estate of Peter Doerksen to Jacob Janzen of Nieder Chortitza.
  2. Correspondence from the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Peleshenkov, with the Guardianship Office concerning assignment of the above estate of the deceased Michael Eisfeldt to trustees, including an inventory of the estate in the Josephstal Colony; the transfer of the estate of colonist Michael Kroll of the Rybalsk Colony to his son-in-law (or brother-in-law) Bogdan Kudvin, including an inventory of the property.
  3. Correspondence from the head of the Belowesch Colonies, Mr. Stumph, with the Guardianship Office concerning the transfer of the estate of Urich Kister to Christopher Brunner of the Kleinwerder Colony.
  4. Correspondence from the Mayor of the Swedish Colonies with the Guardianship Office about trusteeship over the estate of the deceased Franciszek Matskevich by Mats Hanson (with further transfer of this estate to his son Andros Matskevich), including an inventory of the property.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
28 Jan 1803 to 20 Jan 1806. 130 pages. 194 frames.

Microfilm No. 794

File 129. File written about the notification by the government of the Ekaterinoslav Province that the Mennonite Erdmann (Igor) Nikkel was allowed to move from the estate of Prince Karol to Kronsweide.

  1. Correspondence from the government of the Ekaterinoslav Province with the Guardianship Office about the Mennonite Mr. Nikkel and other Mennonites moving from the estate of Prince Karol to Kronsweide in the Ekaterinoslav Province.

These documents are written in Russian.
9 Oct 1803 to 5 Nov 1803. 5 pages. 12 frames.

File 130. Report written by the Chortitza District Office about Jacob Siemens' move to Burwalde.

  1. Reports from District Mayor Peter Siemens and registers from the Guardianship Office about J. Siemens' move.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
1 Sep 1803 to 27 Feb 1804. 6 pages. 11 frames.

File 131. Report written by the Chortitza District Office about permission to take money from the community bank for the repair of a mill and a bridge. Information about the repair of a mill and a bridge by colonists in Schoenwiese.

  1. A petition from the Mennonites in Schoenwiese; report from District Mayor Siemens; register from the Guardianship Office about the petition from the colonists to take money for the repairs from the community bank, including an account evaluation.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
9 Sep 1803 to 23 Nov 1803. 3 pages. 9 frames.

1804

Microfilm No. 791

File 138. File concerning the purchase of lumber from Chernobyl resident Berka Michalevich by the Guardianship Office for building houses in the Molotschna Colony.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office about the purchase and transportation of lumber to the Molotschna River.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with B. Michalevich. Contract documents.
  3. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Mayor of Ekaterinoslav and with the mayors of the colonies about the preservation of the lumber. Colonists from the Molotschna Colonies were assigned to be inspectors. Reports from inspectors on the same subject.
  4. Petitions from B. Michalevich asking to pay him money.
  5. Reports from the College Registrar (civil official of 15th rank) Sobolev about the amount of lumber which was cut and delivered; amount paid for work.
  6. Post-horse order from Mr. Develdeev.
  7. Statistical reports about the amount of lumber that was cut, and about the money which was paid for this work from October, 1804 to March, 1805
  8. Lists from the Molotschna District Office about the amount of lumber that was cut and purchased; about the deficit.
  9. Invoices about rafts that were constructed and shipped.
  10. Reports from the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Baron Ikskul, about the necessity to account for the amount of lumber for the construction of houses.
  11. A layout of the lands along the Molotschna River.
  12. Lists of families from the villages of Molotschna Colonies (Muensterberg, Lichtenau, Lindenau, Fischau, Schoenau, Muntau, and Halbstadt), who needed lumber to build their houses.
  13. Information about the progress of the delivery of the lumber.
  14. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with Major General von Boehm, the Director of the Dnepr Rapids, about permission to pass through the rapids.
  15. The orders and report from S. X. Contenius about the delivery of the lumber.
  16. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav State Chamber and the Mariupol District Exchequer about the money, which was given for cutting and transporting the lumber. Amount of money that was sent to Inspector Ikskul.
  17. The plan for a house containing the dimensions and the amount of lumber needed for the construction.
  18. Routes for transportation of the lumber.
  19. Reports from District Mayor K. Wiens about the deficit of lumber and the indebtedness of B. Michalevich.
  20. Reports from the Guardianship Office to the Duke de Richelieu about inefficiencies during the transportation of the lumber.
  21. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav Government and the Lower District Court about the investigation of the embezzlement of lumber.

These documents are written in both Russian and German
This file is missing the beginning and ending pages.
May 30, 1804 to Aug 22, 1806. 828 pages.
(See the microfilm of selected files from Odessa Archives, Fund 6, Inventory 1 for this file).

Microfilm No. 794

File 144. File concerning medical services provided to colonies of foreign settlers and about the payment of 10 rubles to the colonist Mr. Schultz for these services.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav Medical Administration and Inspector Peleshenkov about the dispatch of Doctor (Court Counselor) Meinshausen to the Josephstal Colony and about the payment for treatment.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with Ekaterinoslav Office of Public Charity regarding the payment for treatment of sick colonists in the hospital.
  3. Petition by the Mayor of the Jamburg Colony, Mr. Lutz, about the need to send a doctor to the colony.
  4. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with Court Counselor Chaika (a member of the Ekaterinoslav Medical Administration) about the commission of Medical Officer Zeger to do medical assistance to colonists if it is necessary.
  5. Announcement by the Medical Administration to the Guardianship Office concerning vaccinations. The people from Medical Administration were dispatched into the Chortitza Colonies to vaccinate against smallpox. "Admonition for Mennonites" by Dr. Bekker, who was a member of the Medical Administration.
  6. Petition by the Ekaterinoslav Pharmacy to the Guardianship Office. Payable accounts for medicines, which were sent to the colonists (October 1804-May 1805, April, 1809, March, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1816). Prescriptions that were written by Drs. Meinshausen, Bekker, and Zeger.
  7. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav Medical Administration and Doctor Meinshausen about the medical care rendered by the colonist Karl Wannovius. Prescriptions that were written by Mr. Wannovius. The petition by Mr. Wannovius about transferring him to another colony and his promotion to be a doctor's assistant.
  8. Statistical lists containing the number of sick Mennonites from the Molotschna Colonies in August and September, 1805; lists of names of the patients, their ages, and their illnesses in December, 1805.
  9. Letter by the Taurida Civil Governor to the Guardianship Office about the dispatch of Melitopol District Doctor Steblev to the Molotschna Colonies to do medical assistance.
  10. Announcement by Court Counselor Meinshausen to the Guardianship Office about morbidity.
  11. Letter by Baron Ikskul about the necessity to repair of the houses of the colonists. The letter contains the list of needy colonists. Financial account about payment for treatment.
  12. Petitions by Doctor Steblev about the necessity to send cowpox serum for inoculations.
  13. Letters by Dr. Bekker to the Guardianship Office about the reimbursement of travel expenses.
  14. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office, the Ekaterinoslav Civil Governor, the Ekaterinoslav Medical Administration, and the State Advisor, Mr. Hoffman (a member of the Medical Administration) about the increase in morbidity in the Molotschna Colonies.
  15. A list of colonists in the Molotschna Colonies who received battens (March, 1810).
  16. Complaint of Mr. Ikskul about the misbehavior of Mr. Hoffman during his sojourn in the colony.
  17. Petitions from the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Sieber, about the payment for the treatment of sick colonists to Karl Gottfried Schulze and Nicholas Gottfried Mueller. Petition from Mr. Mueller about the need to pay for his work and accounts.
  18. Reports and petitions by Mr. Sieber about the necessity to build a house for K. G. Schulze, to increase wages, and to deliver medications and a material for inoculation.
  19. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the money that was sent for medications.
  20. Reports from the Doctor for the Molotschna Colonies, K. G. Schulze. Lists of medicines that were used. Accounts for the medicines.
  21. Reports from the acting Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Hauschteck, about the money for medications.
  22. A certificate that was given to the Molotschna District Office to K. G. Schultz (with a print of the stamp of the office).
  23. A report from the acting Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Baron von Plotto, about the deductions of the money for the treatment to the Guardianship Office.

These documents are written in Russian, German, and Latin.
25 Feb 1804 to 22 May 1820. 595 pages. 849 frames.

File 147. File concerning estates which were transferred from one Mennonite or colonist to another during 1804.

Conclusions of the Guardianship Office, registers, and reports from inspectors to the Guardianship Office.

  1. Reports written by the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Peleshenkov, concerning exchanges of the apartment houses between the colonists (Rybalsk colonist Jacob Emrich and Josephstal colonist Friedrich Kohler, a Rybalsk colonist, the Swabian Christopher Mor and Orelsk colonist Osip Gershwelt, Rybalsk colonist Christian Steinborn and the Swabian Georg Bauman of Josephstal, Rybalsk colonist Johann Kudvin and the Swabian Jacob Bauer of Josephstal, Rybalsk colonist Frederick Skodelsky and the Swabian Christian Teimih of Josephstal); the transfer of the estate of the Mennonite Jacob Bartel Mewsen of Kronsgarten to a recent settler, the Mennonite Jacob Wiens; the transfer of the estate of the deceased Josephstal colonist Wilhelm Arks to trustees Christian Miller and Johann Klein (Knoblau), an inventory of the estate and a list of the family of W. Arks; about the transfer of the right of trusteeship from Johann Knoblau to Andreas Knoblau.
  2. Reports written by the Chortitza Colony District Mayor, P. Siemens, regarding the exchange of the estate between Abraham Friesen and Bernhard Giesbrecht of Neuendorf; about the transfer of the estate of the Mennonite Jacob Berg of Chortitza to Gerhard Krahn; the transfer of the estate of Kronsweide Mennonite Peter Nikkel to Georg Nikkel; the transfer of the estate of the Mennonite Peter Wiebe of Chortitza to his stepson Johann Peters; the transfer of the estate of the Mennonite Heinrich Janzen of Kronsgarten to the Mennonite Jacob Nikkel.
  3. Reports written by the Inspector of the Swedish Colonies, Mr. Pavlovsky, regarding the transfer of the estate of the deceased Swedish colonist Christian Greison to his brother Hendrik Greison, including an inventory of the estate; the transfer of the estate of the deceased Swedish colonist Heinrich Peterson to his nephew Mats Christianson, including an inventory of the estate.
  4. Reports written by the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Develdeev, concerning the distribution of the cattle of the deceased Josephstal colonist Wilhelm Arks between Jacob Frut and Johann Erlich; the transfer of the estate of the deceased Swabian of Rybalsk Johann Schteinbelrg to his wife; the transfer of the estate of Jamburg colonist Peter Agenzeier to colonist Philip Pfeifer.
  5. Reports written by of the head of the Belowesch Colonies, Johann L. Stumph, about the last will of Philip L. Sell of Rundewiese, an inventory of the property, and a list of the family of P. Sell; about the last will of Belowesch colonist Peter Arnold and the transfer of Arnold's property to his grandson Conrad Arnold.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
3 Feb 1804 to 25 Jan 1805. 87 pages. 148 frames.

1805

File 178. File concerning an order to ten soldiers from the Ekaterinoslav garrison battalion to guard the lumber prepared for the colonists and about providing them with money for their provision.

  1. Correspondence from the Minister of Internal Affairs, Count V. P. Kochubey, the Duke de Richelieu, the Commander from the Ekaterinoslav garrison battalion, Mr. Kashutin, and Colonel von Berg, the Ekaterinoslav City Police, the Commander of the Ekaterinoslav disabled companies, Colonel Tarasevich , and Colonel Komarovsky, the College Registrar Mr. Soloviev, and the Molotschna District Office about guarding the lumber prepared for the Molotschna colonists.
  2. Reports written by inspectors from the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Ikskul and Mr. Sieber, and from the Smolensk Colonies, Mr. Krakovsky, on the same subject.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
2 Mar 1805 to 8 Aug 1813. 162 pages. 247 frames.

Microfilm No. 791

File 179. File concerning Mennonites who had recently arrived and who at first had lived in the Chortitza Colony as lodgers, and then decided to stay there.

  1. List of names of the Mennonites who tenanted in the Chortitza Colony (1806).
  2. Petition written by David Penner to settle in the village of Ohrloff.
  3. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Chortitza District Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the necessity to accommodate the Mennonite Cornelius Epp with a loan for 600 rubles. He decided to establish a dye-house (or dye-works).
  4. Promissory note written by C. Epp.
  5. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Chortitza District Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding Johann Krieger who wished to sell his estate and to become the watchmaker for the Chortitza Colonies.
  6. Reports written by the Chortitza Local Government on different problems.
  7. Promissory note written by Johann Penner to pay the debt of the deceased Philip Kohler.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
This file is missing a cover and first page.
2 Jan 1806 to 19 Jul 1810. 90 pages.
(See the microfilm of selected files from Odessa Archives, Fund 6, Inventory 1 for this file).

Microfilm No. 794

File 181. File concerning the issuance of passports to Mennonites from the Chortitza and the Molotschna Colonies for trips abroad for personal business.

  1. Note from the journal of the Guardianship Office about the petition from Mennonites Wilhelm and Pliusa? Martens, Peter Kasper, and Anton Schellenberg, who arrived in 1804, to go back to their previous home in Elbing, Prussia.

Only cover and first page are preserved (originally there were 62 pages).
26 Jul 1805 to 19 Jun 1807. 1 page. 6 frames.

File 191. File concerning the conclusion of a contract for the purchase of an estate from Lord Baskakov by the Mennonite Mr. Wiens.

  1. Notification from the Ekaterinoslav District Court to the Guardianship Office about the necessity for verification of every land contract made by colonists.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Novomoskovsk District Court, Inspector Develdeev, and the Ekaterinoslav District Treasury about disputable purchase of land and the payment of land tax.
  3. Receipt and petition from Klaas Wiens

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
17 Jul 1805 to 9 Sep 1808. 25 pages. 46 frames.

Microfilm No. 791

File 195. File concerning the solution from the Guardianship Office for smallpox vaccinations of the colonists' children.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office concerning vaccinations with the inspectors of the Swedish, Molotschna, Smolensk, Crimea, and Jewish Colonies and the Radichev Hutterite Brotherhood.
  2. A letter from the Chief Judge, Samuel X. Contenius, about deriving material for inoculations.
  3. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Committee for the Distribution of Inoculations (vaccinations) with the Guardianship Office. The plan for the preparation of inoculations in the Ekaterinoslav Province (typographical copy). The order from the Committee about the preparation of inoculations (typographical copy).
  4. Petition from Pastor K. Biller of the Josephstal Colony. Petition from the Catholic pastor, F. Maevsky, of the Jamburg Colony.
  5. A letter from the Marshal of the Nobility from the Kherson District regarding vaccinations.
  6. Lists of children vaccinated against smallpox in the Chortitza Colony in 1809.
  7. A statistical sheet regarding various colonies and villages (Chortitza, Rosenthal, Burwalde, Kronstal, Nieder Chortitza, Insel Chortitza, Einlage, Kronsweide, Neuenburg, Neuendorf, Schoenhorst, Schoenwiese, Jamburg, Josephstal, Rybalsk, and Kronsgarten) for March, 1812.
  8. Vaccination information for 1814 from the Chortitza Colony. Vaccination information for the period April to December, 1817 and for the period January and February, 1818 from the Molotschna Colony.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
4 Mar 1805 to 15 Mar 1820. 254 pages.
(See the microfilm of selected files from Odessa Archives, Fund 6, Inventory 1 for this file).

Microfilm No. 794

File 197. File concerning Spanish Merino sheep and about specimens of this breed which were sent from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for sheep breeding.

  1. Copies of the document from Emperor Alexander the First to the Duke de Richelieu about the loan for Mr. Miller's sheep farm. Orders from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Guardianship Office about the purchasing of sheep from the farm of Mr. Miller for the colonies in New Russia.
  2. A report from the Minister of Internal Affairs, A. B. Kurakin, about the state of affairs at Mr. Miller's sheep farm (1808). Orders from Mr. Kurakin to the Guardianship Office about the distribution of the book about sheep breeding.
  3. An offer by the Duke de Richelieu to the Guardianship Office regarding the distribution and keeping of fine-fleeced sheep in the colonies.
  4. Declarations by Court Counselor Rosenkampf to the Guardianship Office.
  5. Offers from S. X. Contenius about the necessity to indicate the number of lambs of Spanish sheep and about improved breeding; about the reconstruction of the sheepfold as communal property of the colonists in Gruental in the Prischib Colony in the Molotschna area; about the preservation of the sheep.
  6. Receipts from Mr. Miller about the arrival of apprentices in 1808. A release from Mr. Miller for Wilhelm Siemens and Bernhard von Bergen to return to the Chortitza Colony.
  7. Instruction for the shepherd Heinrich Minh.
  8. Correspondence from Colony Secretary Ivan Michaelis, a member of the Saratov Guardianship Committee, with the New Russia Guardianship Committee regarding receiving and wintering of sheep and sending them to Saratov Province. The declaration of the Guardianship Office to the Civil Governor of Ekaterinoslav, K. S. Gladky, about the necessity to issue a post-horse order to Mr. Michaelis.
  9. A list of the owners from the Klosterdorf, Muehlhausendorf, Schlangendorf, and the Swedish Colonies who keep the Spanish sheep (1809).
  10. Correspondence from the Saratov Guardianship Committee with the New Russia Guardianship Committee about the wintering of the sheep in the Chortitza Colony and about sending the sheep to the Saratov Colonies (1808-1809).
  11. Letters from the Saratov Office about the money that was sent to pay for the wintering of the sheep.
  12. The contract with Johann Heide on the construction of a barn for the Mennonite sheepfold as communal property in the Gruental Colony. An estimate of the construction costs of the sheepfold for 3000 sheep. A list of the outlay during the construction.
  13. Reports from the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Sieber, about methods to improve the keeping of sheep; about progress towards the completion of the sheepfold.
  14. A list of running expenses for the purchase of Spanish breeding sheep, the construction of the sheepfold and fence, and the construction of a house for herdsman in Gruental (1807).
  15. A list containing the number of sheep in the Chortitza Colonies (for the villages of Chortitza, Rosenthal, Schoenhorst, and Neuendorf) in 1806, in the Molotschna Mennonite Colonies in 1807, in the Molotschna District in 1808.
  16. Reports from inspectors of the Molotschna, Crimea, Chortitza Colonies, and Radichev Brotherhood about the state of the Spanish sheep breeding. Tables containing the number of sheep of the Spanish and improved breed in the Swedish, Radichev, Molotschna, Chortitza, Josephstal, Rybalsk, Kronsgarten, Jamburg Colonies (1809, 1810, 1811, 1812 monthly, 1813 monthly and total, 1814 every month till September).
  17. Statistics about Spanish sheep breeding (January, February, March, and April, 1811). Statistics about the improved breed of sheep in the Chortitza Colonies (villages of Chortitza, Rosenthal, Burwalde, Nieder Chortitza, Schoenwiese, Insel Chortitza, Einlage, Kronsweide, Neuenburg, Neuendorf, Schoenhorst, and Kronstal), and in the Josephstal, Rybalsk, Kronsgarten, and Jamburg Colonies. Colonists crossed the Spanish and Russian sheep and got an improved breed of sheep in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th generations.
  18. Report from the Inspector of the Swedish Colony about receiving sheep and about traveling expenses for moving them (1808).
  19. Reports from the Inspectors of the Crimea, Molotschna, Swedish, and Josephstal Colonies about sheep breeding, the numbers of lambs, and losses and illnesses of the sheep.
  20. Reports from the Chortitza District Office about sheep breeding.
  21. Reports from the Molotschna District Office to Inspector Sieber regarding the disobedience of Joseph Friedel.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
24 May 1805 to 30 Oct 1814. 947 pages. 1437 frames.

File 201. File concerning estates that were transferred from one Mennonite or colonist to another because of death or other cause during 1805. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office, the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Develdeev, the Inspector of the Swedish Colony, Mr. Pavlovsky, the Mayor of the Belowesch Colony, Mr. Stumph, the Danzig Village Government, and the Chortitza District Office about estates, which were transferred from one Mennonite or colonist to another because of death or other cause.

  1. Correspondence containing information about the transfer of estates in the Josephstal Colony from the deceased Johann Eisfeld to his wife Agatha, from the deceased Johann Faber to Johann Heiman; from Johann Wilhelm to Adam Kunz, from Johann Klein to Johann Miller, from Johann Erich to Michael Jung, and from Wilhelm Arks to Daniel Kunz.
  2. Correspondence containing information about the Chortitza District concerning the assumption of the estate of Peter Albrecht in Nieder Chortitza by the Mennonite Jacob Bueckert, the assumption of the estate of the deceased Cornelius Penner in Neuendorf by Dietrich Hildebrand, the assumption of the estate of Peter Friesen in Neuendorf by Isaac Klassen, the assumption of the estate of the deceased Jacob Enns in Burwalde by Dietrich Toews, the assumption of the estate of Nathaniel Goertz in Schoenwiese by Johann Funk, the assumption of the estate of Joseph Nowitzky in Burwalde by Johann Harms, the assumption of the estate of Johann Dyck in Nieder Chortitza by Wilhelm Peters, the assumption of the estate of Peter Breyel in Neuendorf by Jacob Dyck, the assumption of the estate of the deceased Gerhard Braun in Chortitza by Abraham Klassen, the assumption of the estate of Bernhard Jantzen in Burwalde by Abraham Penner.
  3. Correspondence containing information about the transfer of the estate of Peter Huebert in Schoenhorst to owner Jacob Franzen from Chortitza and the transfer of the estate of Paul Schellenberg in Schoenhorst to owner Gerhard Ens from Chortitza.
  4. Correspondence containing information about the transfer of the estate of Johann Gotschal in Kleinwerder of the Belowesch Colony to his sons.
  5. Correspondence containing information about the estate of Michael Lautenschlager, which belonged to colonist Johann Buller from Jamburg; about the transfer of the estate of Peter Schillinger to his son-in-law (or brother-in-law) Georg Zimmer in Jamburg.
  6. Correspondence containing information about the transfer of the estate of Johann Szmyd to his stepson Karl Cvattir in the Danzig Colony.
  7. Correspondence containing information about the transfer of the estate of the deceased colonist Gregory Sontsev to a colonist German in the Swedish Colony.
  8. Correspondence containing information about the estate of Gabriel Spoling, which he gave his son Michael in the Rybalsk Colony; about the transfer of the estate of the deceased Peter Illas to his wife Margaretha in the Rybalsk Colony.
  9. Correspondence containing information about the exchange of the estates between Peter Dyck and Jacob Warkentin in Schoenhorst, between Peter Epp of Burwalde and Dietrich Hildebrand of Neuendorf, and between Abraham Friesen of Neuendorf and Mr. Ginter of Nieder Chortitza.
  10. Reports written by mayors and inspectors on the same subject; the inventories of properties; promissory notes written by the new owners regarding state debts and so on.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
31 Dec 1804 to 28 Oct 1808. 158 pages. 252 frames.

Microfilm No. 795

File 208. File concerning the birth and death rates among new colonists who settled in the Odessa, Swedish, Danzig, Molotschna, and Josephstal Colonies.

  1. Reports written by Inspector Develdeev about the number of births and deaths in the Josephstal, Rybalsk, and Jamburg Colonies and in state villages of Voloskoe, Kamenka, Podgornoye from March to May, 1805.
  2. Reports written by the village government of the Swedish Colony containing the same data from January to March, 1805.
  3. A statement written by the Assistant to the Chief Judge, Mr. Brigonzi, and lists containing the same data for the German colonies of Odessa, Ovidiopol, Grigoriopol, Gross and Klein Liebenthal, and the Bulgarian Colonies of Ternovka, Gross and Klein Buyalik, and Kubanka from January to November, 1805.
  4. A report written by the Danzig Village Government about rate of illness in the colony for November, 1805.
  5. A report and list written by the Inspector of the Molotschna Colony concerning the villages of Monplessi, Neudorf, Rosental, Hoffental, Nassau, Weinau, and Wasserau for November, 1805.
  6. A report written by the Molotschna District Office containing the list for May, 1805.
  7. A report and list written by the Inspector of the Molotschna Mennonite Colonies, Baron Ikskul, concerning the villages of Halbstadt, Muntau, Schoenau, Fischau, Lindenau, Lichtenau, Blumstein, Muensterberg, Altonau, Schoensee, Petershagen, Tiegenhagen, Ohrloff, Tiege, Blumenort, and Rosenort from July to November, 1805.
  8. A report and list written by the Inspector of the Swedish Colonies, Mr. Gsell, about the colonies of Klosterdorf, Muehlhausendorf, Schlangendorf, and the Old Swedish Sloboda (Schwedendorf) from January to October, 1806.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
6 Mar 1805 to 16 Oct 1806. 67 pages. 89 frames.

File 209. File concerning six Mennonite families that were allowed to live in Volhynia after they paid their official debt.

  1. A letter of attorney about the purchase of lands given by settlers of Manuisti Sloboda of the Novomoskovsk District to Ivan Feodorovich Grabovsky. He had to buy lands in Volhynia for them.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the governments of the provinces of Ekaterinoslav, Taurida, and Kherson, the Ekaterinoslav Civil Governor, P. I. von Berg, the Civil Governor of Volhynia, the Ekaterinoslav District Treasurer, Mr. Kovalsky, and the Ekaterinoslav State Chamber concerning the desire of Mennonites Gerhard, Johann, Heinrich, and Peter Harms, Gerhard Nikkel, Heinrich Ewert, and Heinrich Kliewer to move to Volhynia to settle on the purchased lands and about collecting the public debt from them .
  3. Notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office on the same subject.
  4. A petition written by Johann Harms to issue passports for the trip.
  5. Lists of names of Mennonites containing information about the amount of debts.
  6. The passports for Mennonites Gerhard, Johann, Heinrich, and Peter Harms, Gerhard Nickel, Heinrich Ewert, and Heinrich Kliewer, which include the names and ages of their family members (frames 25-28, 52-54).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
18 Feb 1805 to 17 Aug 1805. 43 pages. 68 frames.

1806

File 230. File concerning the collection of a debt from non-commissioned police officer Mr. Kurashev for the benefit of the Mennonite Johann Regier in the amount of 23 rubles for a watch which Mr. Kurashev bought from Mr. Regier.

  1. A petition from Johann Regier to the Guardianship Office, correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the District Police of Ekaterinoslav, and the conclusion of this case.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
1 Jun 1806 to 14 Mar 1808. 6 pages. 14 frames.

File 234. File concerning offenses that Mennonites from Ekaterinoslav made against other people.

  1. Complaint about the Mennonite Mr. Toews from Axinia Jukova, written in the name of Alexander the First.
  2. Petition from Gersha Bloch to the Ekaterinoslav District Police with a complaint against the Mennonite Johann Regier; an explanation from Mr. Regier.
  3. Petition from the Mennonite Peter Loewen and the promise of Christian Heyne to pay his debt to Loewen.
  4. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav District Police about these conflicts.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
20 Aug 1806 to 26 Apr 1810. 14 pages. 26 frames.

File 235. File concerning a horse that was stolen from the Mennonite Jacob Toews and an announcement about it.

  1. Petition from J. Toews about the announcement and the decision of the Guardianship Office about this matter.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav District Police and the Kherson and Poltava Governments.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
25 Aug 1806 to 1 Dec 1810. 10 pages. 17 frames.

File 236. File about an offer from the Ekaterinoslav Civil Governor to collect a debt from Johann Peters, who borrowed 100 Prussian tallers from the Marienburg Post Inspector, Mr. Refeld, in Prussia.

  1. Letter to the Guardianship Office from the Ekaterinoslav Civil Governor with an offer to collect debt from Mr. Peters for the benefit of Mr. Refeld.
  2. Report from the Chortitza District Office about non-recognition of this debt.
  3. Report from the Inspector of Molotschna Colonies Mr. Ikskul about the return of Mr. Peters to Prussia.
  4. Sheet about an amount of suitable and non-suitable land in the Neusaz, Friedental, and Rosenthal Colonies in the Crimea.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
25 Sep 1806 to 21 Feb 1807. 13 pages. 26 frames.

File 251. Report from the Chortitza District Office about the Mennonites, Aron von Riesen, Diedrich Braun, and Peter Sawatzky, who didn't pay their debt for the seeds that they borrowed in 1795.

  1. Report from the Chortitza District Office and the conclusion of the Guardianship Office about payment of the debt by Mr. von Riesen, Mr. Braun, and Mr. Sawatzky.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
12 Apr 1806 to 25 May 1806. 2 pages. 7 frames.

File 258. A report written by the Inspector of the Josephstal Colony, Mr. Develdeev, about the Mennonite Jacob Eyding, son of the deceased Jacob Eyding, who left the Josephstal Colony and came to the Chortitza Colony without proper documentation. He was later deported back to the Josephstal Colony.

  1. Reports from the Chortitza District Office; report from Mr. Develdeev to the Guardianship Office; and instructions from the Guardianship Office about this case.
  2. Report to the Guardianship Office from the Ekaterinoslav District Treasury.
  3. Testimony of J. Eyding to the Guardianship Office about an unfair accusation from the Mennonite Abraham Kopp of the Chortitza Colony.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
15 May 1806 to 6 Jul 1807. 19 pages. 34 frames.

File 260. Notification written by the Director of the Dnepr Rapids, Lord von Boehm, about an accident on the Dnepr River, where rafts transported by Governor Secretary Grube to the Black Sea Admiralty were broken, and some Mennonites from Kronsweide dragged them out of the water illegally.

  1. Correspondence from Lord von Boehm with the Guardianship Office about the illegal purchase of lumber from these broken rafts by Mennonites. Jacob Neubauer is mentioned.
  2. Report from the Chortitza District Office and an order about this case from the Guardianship Office to the Chortitza District Office.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
8 Jul 1806 to 5 Jul 1807. 17 pages. 33 frames.

File 263a. File concerning a petition by Mennonites from the village of Rosenthal, who mowed grass on some lowland that belonged to the Chortitza Colony. Report written by the Chortitza District Office.

  1. Reports from the District Mayor of the Chortitza District Office to the Guardianship Office about the mowing and about the chopping of young oaks by Rosenthal proprietors (with a list of these proprietors).
  2. Decision by the Guardianship Office and a note from its journal about this case and about the collection of a penalty from the culprits.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
9 Jul 1806 to 20 Jan 1808. 26 pages. 45 frames.

File 264. File concerning the licentiousness which colonist Johann Rauter of the Rybalsk Colony made to Leonora Schwartzova, foster child of Jacob Barch of the Rybalsk Colony.

  1. Reports from the inspector of the colonies, Mr. Develdeev, concerning this case.

These documents are written in Russian.
5 Jul 1806 to 6 Aug 1806. 3 pages. 9 frames.

File 268. Petition written by the Ekaterinoslav merchant Mr. Kolesnikov about loss of 250 rubles.

  1. Petition from Mr. Kolesnikov to the Guardianship Office about his lost money and about its embezzlement by Peter Neustaedter of Einlage.
  2. Report from the Chortitza District Office about this matter.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
11 Sep 1806 to 24 Sep 1806. 8 pages. 20 frames.

File 269. File concerning the sowing of winter grain crops that took place the previous fall in the Molotschna and Swedish Colonies.

  1. Offer from S. X. Contenius to the Guardianship Office with a request for information about the sowing of grain crops in each colony.
  2. Note of instruction about governing the colonies.
  3. Report written by the Inspector of the Swedish Colonies, Mr. Gsell, and lists (with lists of names) about the sowing of grain in the colonies of Klosterdorf, Muehlhausendorf, and Schlangendorf and the Old Swedish Sloboda (Schwedendorf).
  4. Report (with list of names) written by the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies about these crops in the Prischib Colonies of Montal, Prischib, Neudorf, Rosental, Hoffental, Nassau, Weinau, and Wasserau; in the first set of Mennonite villages, namely Halbstadt, Schoenau, Fischau, Lindenau, Lichtenau, Blumstein, Muensterberg, and Altonau (frames 31-38); and in the second set of Mennonite villages, namely Ladekopp, Schoensee, Petershagen, Tiegenhagen, Ohrloff, Tiege, Blumenort, Rosenort, and Fuerstenau (frames 38-46).

These documents are written in Russian.
7 Sep 1806 to 16 Nov 1806. 26 pages. 52 frames.

File 275. Report written by the Chortitza District Office about an incidence in which the Mennonite Gerhard Rempel beat Martin Wiens' wife.

  1. Reports from the Chortitza District Office about this case and about the penalty that Mr. Rempel paid to Mr. Wiens for the offense to his wife. Conclusions about the case from the Guardianship Office.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
6 Sep 1806 to 20 Dec 1806. 6 pages. 14 frames.

File 278. File concerning papers that Lord Contenius sent to the Chortitza District Office and papers that he received from the district office; other transmissions of this kind.

  1. Reports from the Chortitza District Office about the dispatch of packages to S. X. Contenius in Odessa.
  2. Offer from Lord Contenius to the Guardianship Office about dispatching his instructions to the Chortitza District Office.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
27 Oct 1806 to 10 May 1807. 9 pages. 14 frames.

File 283. File concerning the matter of having papers sent from the Chortitza District Office to the Guardianship Office through Emperor Alexander's post office.

  1. Report from the Chortitza District Office about taking into account orders from the Guardianship Office regarding the transmission of mail.
  2. Letter to the Guardianship Office from the Ekaterinoslav Province Post Office and the conclusion of the Guardianship Office about this matter.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
30 Nov 1806 to 4 Jan 1807. 5 pages. 11 frames.

1807

File 288. File concerning the collection of 44 rubles from the Jew Marko Donajewski who was indebted to Mennonite Jacob Wiens for drinks and other property that he took from Mr. Wiens. About a claim from the Mennonite Jacob Wiens against the merchant Marko Donajewski for non-payment of the debt.

  1. Petition from the innkeeper J. Wiens about collecting the debt from the merchant Mr. Donaevsky.
  2. Reports from the Chortitza Colony District Mayor, Mr. Siemens; correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav City Police, the Ekaterinoslav City Magistrate, and the Ekaterinoslav Province Government regarding this case.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
5 Jul 1807 to 29 Nov 1809. 42 pages. 68 frames.

File 289. File concerning the retrieval of a silver watch from Paul Nikolaevich Allexev that he had borrowed from the Mennonite Johann Regier and 18 rubles, 48 kopecks, which he had borrowed from the Mennonite Jacob Wiens. Information about the claims of the Mennonites, Mr. Regier and Mr. Wiens, against Officer Paul Nikolaevich Allexev for the non-payment of his debts.

  1. Petition from the watchmaker, Mr. Regier, and J. Wiens about collecting the watch and the money from Officer Alekseev.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav City Police and the Novomoskovsk Local Court regarding this matter.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
4 Mar 1807 to 16 Mar 1808. 21 pages. 36 frames

File 302. Statistical information about the number of colonists who arrived from foreign countries to Russia in 1806. Reports from the inspectors of the colonies about conditions in these colonies in 1807.

  1. Reports from inspectors of the colonies and statistical lists containing the number of colonists as well as the number of births and deaths during 1807 (monthly) in the following colonies: Swedish (Klosterdorf, Muehlhausendorf, Schlangendorf, and the Old Swedish Sloboda, Schwedendorf), Crimea (Freudental, Rosenthal, Heilbrunn, Sudak, Baltachokrak), Chortitza, Mennonite Molotschna (Halbstadt, Muntau, Schoenau, Fischau, Lindenau, Lichtenau, Blumstein, Muensterberg, Altonau, Schoensee, Petershagen, Tiegenhagen, Ohrloff, Tiege, Blumenort, Rosenort), Molotschna Colony District (Neudorf, Rosenthal, Prischib, Hoffental, Nassau, Weinau, Wasserau), Smolensk (September), Odessa Settlement (Odessa, Grigoriopol, Liebental Colonies, Katarjina, Kubanka, Gross and Klein Buyalik, Ternovka, Ingulskaya), Danzig, Josephstal, Jamburg, Kronsgarten (April-July), Parkansk (January-February, October-November), and Jewish-Israelites (October-December).
  2. Summary statistics of the births and deaths in the Molotschna Colony in September, 1807; in the Mennonite Molotschna Colony villages (Halbstadt, Muntau, Schoenau, Fischau, Lichtenau, Muensterberg, and Altonau) in October 1807; and in the Molotschna Colony villages (Halbstadt, Muntau, Schoenau, Fischau, Lichtenau, Muensterberg, Lindenau, Tiege, Blumenort, Tiegenhagen, Schoensee, Blumstein, and Rosental) in November, 1807.
  3. Report from Mr. Gsell to the Guardianship Office containing information about the number of colonists who arrived in Russia from foreign countries in 1806.
  4. Report concerning Johann Martens, Maria Peters, and Johann Peters who immigrated from Prussia to the Chortitza Colony in 1806, staying in Kronsgarten with Peter Klassen (frames 248, 249).
  5. Report and list from the Inspector of the Crimean Colonies, Mr. Gastfer, concerning the outlay for the settlement and the needs of colonists who had recently arrived.
  6. Statistical lists that were made by the Guardianship Office for the Ministry of Internal Affairs from May to August, 1807, and for all of 1807. Statistical lists containing the total number of colonists in New Russia, the number of births and deaths, the number of families, females and males, and the number of colonists who arrived and left. There is information about German, Swedish, Bulgarian, Greek, Slav-Serbian, Moldavian, Rhenish, English, and Jewish colonists, Mennonites, and Smolensk peasants.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
This file has been damaged by mold. Pages from 1 to 22 are missing.
5 Feb 1807 to 27 Feb 1808. 458 pages. 651 frames.

File 307. File concerning an announcement by the Alexandrovsk Local Court to Mennonites from the Chortitza Colony with an offer to come into the court in order to get lumber that had been stolen by a villager, Mr. Kolesnikov.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Alexandrovsk Local Court and the Alexandrovsk City Police about the punishment of Mr. Kolesnikov and about the return of the lumber.
  2. Reports from the Chortitza District Office about receiving this stolen lumber.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
13 Feb 1807 to 10 Sep 1807. 7 pages. 13 frames.

File 312. File concerning the voluntary donation from the Belowesch, Danzig, and Swedish colonists and the Ekaterinoslav Mennonites to the Territorial Army.

  1. A report written by the Belowesch District Office about the collection of the voluntary donation of Belowesch colonists to the Territorial Army.
  2. An order written by the Commissar of the Borzensk District, Mr. Vieridarsky, about the collection, registration, and retention of the donations. A letter of advice from the Commissar of the Borzensk District, Mr. Vieridarsky, to the Minister of Internal Affairs about the voluntary donation of the Belowesch colonists to the Territorial Army.
  3. Reports written by the Inspectors of the Swedish, Jamburg, Kronsgarten, Rybalsk, and Josephstal Colonies containing information about the amounts of the donations.
  4. Lists naming the donors from the Swedish, Danzig, Josephstal, and Rybalsk Colonies containing information about the amount of the donations, the number of weapons, and the type of weapons.
  5. Reports written by the Danzig District Office and the Chortitza District Office about the voluntary donations. A list of 50 donors from the Chortitza Colony (frames 53-56) and a list of donors from Kronsgarten (frames 84, 85) are included.
  6. Lists naming the donors from the Belowesch Colonies.
  7. A declaration written by settlers of Ekaterinoslav, namely Johann Regier, Johann Wieler, Peter Loewen, and Johann Wiens containing information about the amounts of the monetary donations, the number of weapons, and type of weapons (includes the print of a personal seal with the initials "J. R." and the inscription "Uhrmacher").
  8. Correspondence about the acceptance of the money and weapons (for storage) from the settlers of the Swedish Colony, Karl Terzman and Simon Matson.
  9. A report written by the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Baron Ikskul, about the death of District Mayor Kircher; about an election for this position by his assistant, Mr. Bergmiller and about the election of the Assistant Peter Herbershagen.
  10. Correspondence between the Guardianship Office and the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Baron Ikskul, about the search for the lost money (a donation to the Territorial Army) that was given by the colonists to Mayor Kircher and about the embezzlement of this money by Mr. Kircher on his estate. A petition from Maria Kircher, the widow of Mayor Kircher, to the Guardianship Office to grant an allowance for her. The satisfaction that was given by the Guardianship Office to the widow Maria Kircher. The Guardianship Office came to a decision to reward Mayor Kircher for his work on the settlement of the colonists to cover the money he spent. Notes from the journal of the Guardianship Office on the same subject.
  11. A report written by the Elder of the Radichev Colony about the refusal of Radichev Mennonites to make a donation to the Territorial Army because of their religious beliefs. The letter of advice from the Guardianship Office to the Minister of Internal Affairs about that.
  12. A letter of advice from the Government of the Kherson Province to the Guardianship Office about 840 rubles in donations from Bulgarian colonists from Ternovka.
  13. Correspondence about the purchase of the house of retired Brigadier D. Nani as a donation to the Territorial Army.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
9 Mar 1807 to 29 Dec 1808. 90 pages. 148 frames.

File 349. File concerning the rewarding of successful proprietors with decorations.

  1. Offer from the Kherson Military Governor, the Duke de Richelieu, to the Guardianship Office about the necessity to find the best from the Bulgarian and German colonists in order to reward them for their diligence and economic progress.
  2. Report from the Inspector of the Crimean Colonies, Mr. Gastfer, about preferentially rewarding the District Mayor of the Swiss Colony, Johann Rinner, and George Wulcho of the Bulgarian Kishlav Colony.
  3. Report from the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Ikskul, about preferentially rewarding the colonist Johann Krechman of the Montal Colony and the Mennonite Heinrich Enns of Lichtenau.
  4. Report from the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Develdeev, about his preference to reward Johann Jers (Iers) and Abraham Hiebert of the Josephstal Colony, Georg Klass and Laurence Bleiher of the Jamburg Colony, Christian Brock of the Rybalsk Colony, and Isaak and Johann Klassen of Kronsgarten.
  5. Report from the Inspector of the Swedish Colonies, Mr. Dalke, about preferentially rewarding Simon Manzon and Michael Urinzon of the Swedish Colony and Christopher Kovalsky of New Schlangendorf.
  6. Reports from the Chortitza District Office about an election of the foremen Johann Wiebe and Dietrich Neufeld of Insel Chortitza; about an election of the Mayor of the Radichev Colony, Mr. Waldner; about an election of the manager by the Hutterite Brotherhood, Jacob Johann Hofer.
  7. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Belowesch District Office regarding the execution of the order from the Guardianship Office to choose of the best colonists.
  8. List of the best proprietors from Kaltschinowka, Belowesch, Rundewiese, Kleinwerder, Grosswerder, Kreschtschatik, and the town of Belowesch.
  9. List of colonists who were recommended for a decoration including above mentioned names as well as Heinrich Bombah of Rundewiese and the Mayor of Belowesch, Wilhelm Saipel.
  10. Orders from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Guardianship Office about the necessity to cut down the list of colonists, "to leave in the list only those who have moral principles in the family life" (copy). The order from the Minister of Internal Affairs A. B. Kurakin to the Duke de Richelieu on the same subject (copy).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
3 Nov 1807 to 1 Aug 1808. 26 pages. 45 frames.

File 356. File concerning the issuance of passports during 1807.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with inspectors and district offices about the issuance of temporary passports to Mennonites and colonists for trips on personal business. Petitions from the colonists including Diedrich Tiessen, David Woelke, Jacob Wiens of Ekaterinoslav, Wilhelm Siemens of Kronsgarten, Wilhelm Martens, Nathaniel Eytzen, Peter Friesen, Peter Nickel of Kronsweide, Joseph Nowitzky, Gerhard Willems, Heinrich Dyck, Franz Berg and Peter Braun from Neuendorf, and Berend Friesen.
  2. Reports written by the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Develdeev, with the petitions to issue passports to Wilhelm Siemens of Kronsgarten, Franz Balman of Kronsgarten, Johann Buller of the Jamburg Colony, Johann Klassen, Jacob Bartel Meusen, David Schroeder, Zacharias Weichert (all from Kronsgarten), and David Kuhn of the Josephstal Colony.
  3. Report written by the Josephstal District Office with the petitions to issue passports to 12 colonists: Bartel Klein, Georg Zimmer, Jacob, Joseph, and Johann Thonhauser, Johann Eigenseher, Joseph Schwender, Heinrich Zeiger, Lorenz Budgan, Joseph Beitler, Philip Pfeifer, and Jacob Regel.
  4. Report written by the Danzig Village Government about the passport for Jacob Wurmeneher.
  5. Reports written by the Chortitza District Office about the issuance of passports to Jacob Wiens of Ekaterinoslav, David Woelk, Nathaniel Goerz of Schoenwiese, Wilhelm Martens of Schoenwiese, Dietrich Tiessen of Ekaterinoslav, Peter Friesen of Ekaterinoslav, Joseph Nowitzky, Gerhard Willems, Heinrich Dyck, Franz Berg of Neuendorf, and Peter Braun of Neuendorf; about the receipt of the passports of P. Friesen, Peter Nickel, Jacob Eyding, and H. Dyck.
  6. Reports written by the Inspector of the Crimean Colonies, Mr. Gastfer, about the passport for the Greek colonist Nickolaus Efimov of Baltachokrak and the Belowesch District Office about the passport for Conrad Krantz of the town of Belowesch.
  7. Passports of Peter Diordnev, Stoncho Ivanov, Angel Ivanov of Ternovka, J. Wurmeneher of Danzig (includes the seal of the Guardianship Office), and P. Nickel of Kronsweide (includes the seal of the government of the province of New Russia).
  8. Ticket written in 1800 that was given to J. Buller (includes the seal of the manager of the New Russia Foreign Colonies, I. Brigonzi).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
This file is damaged by mold.
8 Jul 1805 to 21 Jan 1808. 85 pages. 117 frames.

1808

File 358. File concerning complaints of different colonists against their fellow colonists and other people regarding borrowed money and property.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with inspectors about collecting private debts (pecuniary and property) in certain colonies (list of these colonies provided).
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office regarding the same matter with the Melitopol Local Court, the Chief of Police of the District, the Ekaterinoslav Local Court, a member of the Guardianship Office, Mr. Rozenkampf, Tavrichsk Civil Governor Borozdin, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Ekaterinoslav City Police.
  3. Petitions from the colonists to the Guardianship Office to provide assistance for the return of their money and property.
  4. Loan certificates, bills, and lists of borrowed items.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
25 Feb 1808 to 14 Jun 1820. 165 pages. 264 frames.

1809

File 449. File concerning money awarded to the settlers Wilhelm Giesbrecht and Gabriel Sagner of New Russia for their achievements in silkworm breeding.

  1. Instructions from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Guardianship Office (copy) about the reward given to W. Giesbrecht of Nieder Chortitza and G. Sagner of Nahichevan and the answer from the Guardianship Office to the Ministry.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav Local Treasury, the Ekaterinoslav State House, the inspectors of the colonies, Mr. Develdeev and Mr. Gsell, the District Mayor of the Chortitza Colonies, Mr. Siemens, and the Nahichevan Armenian Magistrate about recipients of the awards receiving 75 rubles.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
30 Jul 1809 to 18 Aug 1810. 20 pages. 39 frames.

1811

File 563. Report written by the Chortitza District Office about damages due to Mennonites from Kronsweide from the landlord Mr. Sedelsky for cattle he illegally captured.

  1. Report from the Chortitza District Office about the damages and about the conflict regarding these damages.
  2. Decision by the Ekaterinoslav Local Court about returning Mennonite cattle that were illegally captured by Mr. Sedelsky.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
4 Jun 1811 to 23 Oct 1811. 9 pages. 20 frames.

File 565. File concerning a debt in amount of 146 rubles owed by a colonist from the Crimean Colonies, Mr. Delgay, to the Mennonite Gerhard Willems of the Chortitza Colony.

  1. The decision by the Guardianship Office about collecting this debt from Alexander Delgay and giving the funds to Gerhard Willems.

These documents are written in Russian.
5 Jun 1811. 1 page. 5 frames.

File 566. File concerning illegal actions by Altonau Mennonites against inspectors.

  1. Reports from Inspector Sieber of the Molotschna Colonies; the decision of the Guardianship Office; reports from the Mayor of Altonau about the disobedience of colonists who refused to build a house for Inspector Sieber, to pay his expenses with their own money, and to fulfill another requests. Colonists considered all these demands as a violation of their privileges.
  2. Report from Inspector Baron Ikskul of the Molotschna Colonies about the disobedience of the colonists.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
26 Aug 1807 to 8 Jun 1811. 32 pages. 59 frames.

File 567. File concerning the making of a seal for the Molotschna District Office.

  1. Reports from Inspector Sieber of the Molotschna Colonies to the Guardianship Office about the need to have an official seal for the district office, about the receipt of this seal, and about sending the money for it to the Guardianship Office.

These documents are written in Russian.
20 May 1811 to 19 Sep 1812. 5 pages. 11 frames.

File 569. Report written by the Civil Governor about the unexpected inspection of village stores.

  1. Order from the Ekaterinoslav Civil Governor to inspect village grain stores.
  2. Order from the Guardianship Office to inspectors and district offices regarding the same matter.
  3. Form from the accounting records about the condition of these stores.
  4. Report from the Danzig District Office about the condition of a grain store, including the amount of crops.
  5. Report from the Chortitza District Office about a grain store.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
11 Jun 1811 to 8 Dec 1811. 12 pages. 22 frames.

File 572. Information regarding the welfare of colonists for May, 1811, that was sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and to the Kherson Military Governor.

  1. Information about the population for May-August, 1811 (the registers of births, deaths, and marriages of the colonists; the register of colonists who had recently arrived; the number of females and males in the following colonies: the Odessa settlement, Crimea (Feodosia District, Feodosia and Simferopol), Molotschna Mennonites (frames 169, 170, 175, 176, 196-198, 216-218), Prischib (frames 171-173, 177-180, 199-202, 218-220), Jewish, Danzig, Josephstal, Swedish, and the Smolensk Colonies.
  2. Lists of names of colonists and the registers of the births, deaths, and departing colonists from the following colonies: Chokurcha, Rosental, Kronental, Heilbrunn, the outskirts of Feodosia, Zuerichtal, Kishlav, Old Crimea, Sudak (from June, 1811), Simferopol (July, 1811), Freudental (August, 1811), Baltachokrak (August, 1811).
  3. Registers and lists of names of Molotschna colonists and Mennonites.
  4. Registers and lists of names of colonists from the Swedish Colony who were born May-July, 1811.
  5. List of colonists who had recently arrived in the Molotschna Colonies who received money for constructions of houses.
  6. Information about the birth of the son Johann to Constantine Benkendorf (Danzig Colony, May, 1811)Information about the death of the son of Johann Zobel (Danzig Colony, July, 1811).
  7. Reports from the inspectors of the colonies about registrations regarding the welfare of the colonies.
  8. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Assistant to the Chief Judge, Mr. Rosenkampf, regarding regulations about the calculation of the numbers of colonists; about checking the record keeping.
  9. A summary list about the welfare of the colonies in New Russia for May to August, 1811 (Germans, Bulgarians, Greeks, Slav-Serbians, Swiss, Ukrainians, Mennonites, Swedish, and Jewish). These documents are written in both Russian and German.

5 Jun 1811 to 9 Nov 1811. 190 pages. 385 frames.

File 573. File concerning crops damaged by hail in the Molotschna Colonies. Report written by the Grand Judge of the Guardianship Office, I. Lanov.

  1. Reports from I. Lanov, Inspector Sieber, the Chortitza District Office, and the Guardianship Office about the damage caused by the hail to property of Mennonites from Halbstadt, Petershagen, Schoensee, Ladekopp, colonists from Molotschna, Hofental, Neuendorf, and Neuenburg.
  2. Lists of proprietors who suffered from the hail.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
25 Jun 1811 to 26 Aug 1811. 22 pages. 36 frames.

File 576. File concerning damage caused by bulls to the village of Einlage and about a scuffle that happened because of this damage.

  1. Report from the Chortitza District Office about the scuffle; note from the journal of the Guardianship Office.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Kherson City Police, bill to Mosey Soloviev, who was supposedly one of the owners of these bulls.
  3. Report from the Chortitza District Office about receiving the decision from the Guardianship Office.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
20 Jun 1811 to 28 Aug 1811. 8 pages. 18 frames.
This file follows File 577 on the microfilm.

File 577. File concerning Stepan Pustovoytenko, who was caught stealing horses from the Neuenburg herd. Report written by the Chortitza District Office.

  1. Reports from the District Mayor of Chortitza, Mr. Siemens.
  2. Orders from the Guardianship Office and its correspondence with the Ekaterinoslav Local Court about the theft of horses that belonged to the Mennonites from Nieder Chortitza by the villager Mr. Pustovoytenko, who worked for the landlord, Mr. Lukashevich.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
17 Jul 1811 to 12 Sep 1812. 25 pages. 47 frames.

File 582. File concerning the punishment for carelessly starting a fire. Report written by Inspector Sieber.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office and Mr. Sieber about fair punishment and assistance to victims of the fire.
  2. Conditions for providing assistance to victims of the fire that were decided by all district offices.
  3. The amount of funds and a list of all officials in the Molotschna Colonies is provided.

These documents are written in Russian.
15 Jul 1811 to 17 May 1812. 8 pages. 17 frames.

File 583. Request from the Alexandrovsk Local Court to check the Dnepr River crossings book at Kitchkas (Einlage) regarding the record of a passport of Mr. Sinkevich, which is supposed to be entered there at number 17 in the year 1810.

  1. Correspondence from the Alexandrovsk Local Court, the Guardianship Office, and the Chortitza District Office regarding this matter. Receipt giving affirmation of this record.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
17 Jul 1811 to 25 Oct 1811. 11 pages. 20 frames.

File 586. File concerning the receipt of compensation by Arkhip Bayev for having been assaulted by Mennonite Peter Decker.

  1. Correspondence and orders from the Guardianship Office regarding this matter.

These documents are written in Russian.
14 Aug 1811 to 17 Oct 1811. 4 pages. 13 frames.

File 587. File concerning the deportation of artisan Johann Schoen, Andreas Quarizius, Johann Weinland, Solomon Wurman, and Gottlieb Zahn from the Chortitza Colonies.

  1. Reports, correspondence, and brief descriptions of these craftsmen.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
4 Sep 1811 to 30 Apr 1812. 18 pages. 33 frames.

File 589. File concerning a prohibition given to the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood against trading wine.

  1. Report from Mayor Waldner.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Chernigov Civil Governor Baron Frensdorf.
  3. Example of a contract about trading mulled wine.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
19 Sep 1811 to 30 Jul 1813. 42 pages. 85 frames.

1812

File 594. File concerning the formation of mobile disabled companies in Odessa from healthy soldiers from the Molotschna and Smolensk Colonies. Information about a promise by the Kherson Military Governor to send to the Guardianship Office an additional six soldiers from the colonies for the formation of these companies.

  1. Report from Colonel Tarasevich. Reports from the Inspector of the Molotschna Colony, Mr. Sieber, and the Inspector of the Smolensk Colony, Mr. Dunin-Borkovsky.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Duke de Richelieu and the Melitopol District Court.
  3. Conclusions of the Guardianship Office about forming four mobile disabled companies from soldiers from the Molotschna and Smolensk Colonies.

These documents are written in Russian.
9 Jan 9 1812 to 12 Jul 1812. 18 pages. 33 frames.

File 600. File concerning investigations by the Guardianship Office that were made on the suggestion of the Duke de Richelieu into the high death rate among the settlers from the Smolensk and Jewish Colonies in 1811; about the acceptance of preventive measures against illnesses by the colonists.

  1. A letter from the Duke de Richelieu to the Guardianship Office about the necessity to clarify the reasons for the deaths of the people in the colonies and about the necessity to accept preventive measures against illness.
  2. The conclusion by the Guardianship Office concerning of the suggestions of the Duke de Richelieu. Report about the measures taken.
  3. Information about the number of Smolensk Jewish colonists in 1811 and about the death rate of the colonists for 1811.
  4. Decrees from the Guardianship Office to inspectors about the need to report immediately about mass diseases.
  5. Reports from the Inspectors of the Smolensk, Crimea, Danzig, and Chortitza Colonies about receiving the decrees from the Guardianship Office.
  6. Lists showing the number of the sick people in the following villages: - January, 1812 in the villages of Montal, Prischib, Hoffental, Nassau, Weinau, Durlach, Reichenfeld, Friedrichfeld, Heidelberg, Waldorf, Schoenau, Fischau, and Ohrloff. - April to May, 1812 in the villages of Montal, Neudorf, Rosental, Prischib, Hoffental, Nassau, Weinau, Wasserau, Durlach, Reichenfeld, Kostheim, Leitershausen, Hochstaedt, Friedrichsfeld, Heidelberg, Waldorf, Petershagen, Halbstadt, Tiegenhagen, Schoenau, Fischau, Lindenau, Lichtenau, Muenstenberg, Ohrloff, and Rueckenau. - February, 1814 in the villages of Hoffental, Montal, Molotschna, Plantage, Weinau, Leitershausen, Hochstaedt, Friedrichsfeld, Heidelberg, Waldorf, and Ladekopp. - March, 1814 in villages of Montal, Rosental, Reichenfeld, Kostheim, Leitershausen, Hochstaedt, Heidelberg, Altonau, and Ladekopp. - April, 1814 in the villages of Montal, Molotschna, Heidelberg, Leitershausen, Hochstaedt, Kostheim, Hoffental, Wasserau, Rosental, Friedrichsfeld, and Gruental. The lists provide the types of illnesses being treated.
  7. A list of names of sick people in January, 1812 in the colonies of Montal, Molotschna, Heidelberg, Leitershausen, Hochstaedt, Kostheim, Neuendorf, and Waldorf . The list shows the total number of sick people.
  8. A list of names of sick people in the Molotschna Colonies for the months of December, 1811, December, 1812, January, 1813, and February to April, 1814. There are names of medicines used for the treatment of the sick in the list. The list was signed by Dr. Karl Schulze.

These documents are written in Russian, German, and Latin.
15 May 1812 to 25 Apr 1814. 52 pages. 88 frames.

File 601. File concerning an incident in which horses belonging to an artillery command from the village of Tokmak trampled down the grass meadows and fields belonging to Mennonites from the village of Fuerstenau.

  1. Petition and report written by the village government of Fuerstenau about the incident.
  2. Report from the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Sieber, to the Guardianship Office about this.
  3. A summons from the Melitopol Minor Court to Mr. Sieber because Staff-captain Banov had lodged a complaint about damages to his horse by Mennonites.
  4. Letters from Mr. Banov to Mr. Sieber. Letters containing a demand to compensate for the damage that was done by Mennonites to the horses, including an estimate of the monetary damages.
  5. Testimonies from the following soldiers: Stepan Szkoda, Akim Nochevchenko, Zachary Panasenko, and Moisei Filenko.
  6. Testimonies from Mennonites from Fuerstenau: Jacob Wiebe, Peter Rempel, Klaas Wiebe, Johann Peters, Abraham Olfert, Jacob Olfert, Dirk Ginter, Albrecht Mandtler, Dirk Dueck, Peter Neufeld, Johann Tiessen, Cornelius Kroeker, Johann Braun, Jacob Kroeker.
  7. Report from the Molotschna District Office to Mr. Sieber about a incident in which the inhabitants of Tokmak beat Gerhard Enns' wife.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
27 Apr 1812 to 8 Jun 1812. 26 pages. 47 frames.

File 602. File concerning a conflict between the colonist Joel Hoffman from the Molotschna Colonies and the colonist Mr. Kese, who served the landlord Mr. Klevtsov in the village of Novoselka.

  1. Report written by Mr.von Lau, a member of the Guardianship Office, to the Guardianship Office about the necessity to call Mr. Kese in the Molotschna Colonies because the colonist Joel Hoffman had made a complaint about Mr. Kese. Mr. Hoffman assumed the estate of Mr. Kese.
  2. An order from the Guardianship Office to the Molotschna District Office about the necessity to investigate the conflict between the colonists, Mr. Kese and Mr. Hoffman. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Novomoskovsk Minor Court on the same subject.
  3. Report written by Inspector Sieber about getting the order from the Guardianship Office.
  4. Census of German colonists who lived and earned their living in the Chortitza Colony in November, 1812 (rough copy).

These documents are written in Russian.
9 Sep 1812 to 6 Mar 1813. 9 pages. 19 frames.

File 607. File concerning the issuance of passports.

  1. Reports from the Inspector of the Crimean Colonies, Mr. Gsell, about issuing temporary passports to the following colonists: Adam Friedrich Lenz (Sudak), Ungentius Dimmel (Zuerichtal), Jacob Tausch (Feodosia), and Martin Schuler (Heilbrunn).
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with Lieutenant Colonel Hertzberg of the Chernigov Mounted Infantry Regiment with the Ekaterinoslav District Exchequer on the occasion of the need to prolong the term of the passport of August Schmidt who serves with Mr. Hertzberg.
  3. Report written by the Danzig Village Government to the Guardianship Office. Resolution by the Guardianship Office. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Chief of Elizabethgrad Police about issuing passports to the following colonists who need to leave to spend the winter in the Worms Colony: Johann Burbek, Andreas and Johann Mickelsohn, Christopher and Johann Matthesen, Johann Stach, Karl Behrendt, Johann, Michael and Christian Gydy.
  4. Reports written by the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Develdeev, about issuing passports to the following colonists: Carl Fopt (Josephstal Colony), Peter Wieler (Kronsgarten, including a list of his family), Johann von Bergen (Kronsgarten, including a list of his family), Christopher Schrimer (Kronsgarten), Joseph Kirsch (Kronsgarten), Johann George Koper (Josephstal Colony), Paul Toews, Daniel and Johann Schroeder (Josephstal Colony), Daniel Kunz, Samuel Berner, Peter Nitsel (Josephstal Colony), Adam Kunz, Ferdinand Reih (Rybalsk Colony), Johann Klassen (Kronsgarten), Friedrich Shtinis (Josephstal Colony), Adolph and Johann Balau (Josephstal Colony).
  5. Report written by the acting Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Kusemov, about issuing passports to Johann Rauter and his family (Rybalsk Colony).
  6. Report written by the Inspector of the Swedish Colonies, Mr. Dalke, about issuing passports to Peter Drommelschlaeger and Ferdinand Lang (Schlagendorf Colony). Petition by P. Drommelschlaeger.
  7. Report written by the Chortitza District Office about issuing passports to the following colonists: Jacob Ens, Gerhard Willems, Wilhelm Siemens, Isaac Bergen, Nathaniel Goertzen (Schoenwiese, including his petition), Peter Siemens, Abraham Neufeld (serviette-maker), Dirk Goertzen, Abraham Jantzen, Joseph Nowitzky, and Johann Peters.
  8. Information about issuing passports to the following colonists: Joseph Thonhausser (Jamburg Colony), Franz Sebastian (Ekaterinoslav), and Michael Sutter (Jamburg Colony).
  9. Report written by the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Sieber, about the passport of Samuel Kater (Kamer).
  10. Notification written by the Chernigov Government to the Guardianship Office about the search for the colonist David Kop.
  11. Information about the need to limit the number of colonists who earn their living outside of New Russia.
  12. Temporary passports for the following colonists: L. F. Lenz, U. Dimmel, M. Schuler, J. Rauter, F. Kirschbaum, P. Drommelschlaeger, and A. Neufeld.
  13. Ticket for Carl Jaeger, a gardener in the Chortitza Colony.
  14. A certificate that was given by the Guardianship Office to P. Siemens.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
28 Dec 1811 to 31 Jan 1821. 201 pages. (This document has not been microfilmed. However, photocopies of this document as well as a complete translation of it may be found in most major North American Mennonite archives).

File 614. File concerning the petition written by Pastor Thomas Majewski.

  1. Petition written by Pastor T. Majewski about the necessity to examine the scandalous matter of the unmarried colonists Benjamin Becker of the Molotschna Colony and Rose Schwamberger who lived together.
  2. Orders from the Guardianship Office to inspectors about the necessity to control the morality of the colonists.
  3. Report written by the Inspector of the Crimean Colonies, Mr. Gsell, about receiving the order.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
13 Jul 1812 to 11 May 1813. 4 pages. 10 frames.

File 619. File concerning the decision of the Department of the State Economy to swear in the foreigners who were in the service of Russia.

  1. Order from the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the necessity to register and swear in the foreigners.
  2. Order from the Guardianship Office to the inspectors of the colonies and district offices to swear in the colonists.
  3. Report written by the Chortitza District Office containing the list of names of colonists who had been sworn in from the following villages: Chortitza, Rosenthal, Einlage, Insel Chortitza, Nieder Chortitza, Kronsweide, Neuenburg, Schoenhorst, and Burwalde (frames 33, 34, 39).
  4. Report written by the surveyor, Mr. Hauschteck, about the nationality and place of the service. Report written by the pastor of the Molotschna Colonies, Rev. Zederholm, on the same subject. Report from Inspector Dalke about the time of arrival in Russia and the service.
  5. Reports written by the Danzig Village Government and Inspectors Sieber, Gsell, and Develdeev about administering the oath to the colonists.
  6. The list of names of Mennonites who had been sworn in 1812 from the villages of Rosenort, Blumenort, Tiege, Ohrloff, Altonau, Muensterberg, Blumstein, Lichtenau, Lindenau, Fischau, Schoenau, Tiegenhagen, Muntau, Halbstadt, Petershagen, Ladekopp, Fuerstenau, Schoensee, Rueckenau (frames 70-76).
  7. Oath promises written by the colonists from the Molotschna Colonies.
  8. Official lists of the foreigners who were on the staff of the Guardianship Office, namely Anton O. Dunin-Borkovsky, a Pole; Johann M. Gronau, a Swede; and Keshtan Jacob Dalke, a Swede.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
12 Jul 1812 to 1 Jul 1813. 81 pages. 127 frames.

File 649. File concerning an incident in which Mennonites from Schoensee moved without permission to Ladekopp and Petershagen.

  1. Report from the Guardianship Office to the Duke de Richelieu about the unauthorized resettlement of 15 families from Schoensee who moved to Ladekopp and Petershagen.
  2. Correspondence between E. O. Richelieu and S. X. Contenius on the same subject.

These documents are written in Russian. This file has been damaged by mold.
29 May 1812 to 11 Jul 1812. 6 pages. 15 frames.

File 675. File concerning the permission given by the Department of the State Economy and Public Building to produce saltpeter in the colonies.

  1. Order from the Department of the State Economy to the Guardianship Office about the permission to produce saltpeter in the Colonies and about sending instructions on the same subject.
  2. Reports from the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Develdeev, the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Sieber, the Inspector of the Crimean Colonies, Mr. Gsell, the Inspector of the District Mayor of the Chortitza Colonies, Mr. Siemens, and the Inspector of the Danzig Village Government about receiving these instructions for the preparation of saltpeter.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
13 Jun 1812 to 24 Jan 1814. 13 pages. 17 frames.

File 679. Report written by the Elder of the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood, Mr. Waldner, about an incident in which the captain of the Akhtyrsk Hussar Regiment, Captain Lantiner, grazed his horses on the hayfield of the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood.

  1. Report from the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood to the Guardianship Office about the incident.
  2. Report from the Guardianship Office to the Chernigov Governor on the same subject.

These documents are written in Russian.
3 Jul 1812 to 24 Jul 1812. 8 pages. 10 frames.

Microfilm No. 796

File 688. Two official reports written by the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Sieber, about thefts.

  1. Report about the theft of property and money from District Mayor Johann Klassen.
  2. Report about theft of bulls from Jacob Celing.
  3. Letter from the Guardianship Office to the Alexandrovsk Minor Court about the need to find the stolen goods.

These documents are written in Russian.
3 Aug 1812 to 22 Aug 1812. 5 pages. 12 frames.

File 691. File concerning monetary donations that were sent by the Bulgarian colonists and the Chortitza Mennonites to the Territorial Army.

  1. Correspondence from the Minister of Finances, Mr. Guriev, and the Inspectors of the colonies with A. Rosenkampf and the Duke de Richelieu about monetary donations totaling 6780 rubles. List of the names of donors from the Ternovsk and Ingulsk Colonies.
  2. Letter from the Guardianship Office to Mr. Rosenkampf about the donations of money from Mennonites in the Chortitza Colony.

These documents are written in Russian.
26 Aug 1812 to 21 Jun 1813; 12 Jul 1813; 17 Nov 1833. 18 pages. 33 frames.

File 702. File concerning the prohibition by the Ekaterinoslav Civil Governor against Mennonites from Schoenwiese collecting interest when they exchanged banknotes for copper coins.

  1. Letter including an order from the Ekaterinoslav Civil Governor, K. S. Gladky, to the Guardianship Office about the prohibition against Mennonites from Schoenwiese collecting interest (20 kopecks from each ruble) when they exchange banknotes.
  2. Report written by the Chortitza District Office about receiving this order.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
1 Oct 1812 to 29 Nov 1812. 5 pages. 11 frames.

File 703. File concerning testimonies from Mennonites in the Chortitza Colony.

  1. Letter written by the Alexandrovsk Minor Court to the Guardianship Office about the need to call Peter Unger, Jacob Neufeld, and Derk Reimer, Mennonites in the Chortitza Colony, for testimony. Their testimonies were necessary in order to investigate a criminal case about the drowned men, Mr. Stolyarov and Mr. Agarchonok, who were settlers from Voznesenskoe.
  2. Conclusions from the Guardianship Office on the same subject.
  3. Report written by the Chortitza District Office including the testimonies.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
1 Nov 1812 to 20 Jan 1813. 9 pages. 20 frames.

File 710. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Alexandrovsk District Exchequer and inspectors of the colonies about the necessity to get rid of bureaucracy (red tape) regarding the delivery of documents.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
18 Nov 1812 to 13 Mar 1813. 11 pages. 22 frames.

File 711. File concerning the Mennonite Katharina Schroeder from Kronstal who hung herself.

  1. Reports written by the District Mayor of the Chortitza Colonies, Mr. Siemens, to the Guardianship Office.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav Civil Governor, K.S. Gladky, the Department of the State Economy and Public Building, the Minister of Police, and the Alexandrovsk Minor Court on the occasion of the suicide of Katharina Schroeder, wife of Johann Schroeder, and about the investigation of this case.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
19 Nov 1812 to 2 Mar 1815. 37 pages. 66 frames.

1813

File 723. File concerning the lists of names of the colonists who obtained permission to leave the colonies for business and other private matters.

  1. Correspondence from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Guardianship Office, and the Kherson Military Governor concerning the necessary conditions that give the right for colonists to leave the colonies.
  2. Lists of names of colonists, Mennonites and Jewish, who received permission to leave the colonies from June, 1812 to June, 1813, and for August, November, and December, 1813; 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818 and 1819 (monthly).
  3. Lists of names of German and Bulgarian colonists from the Odessa Settlement who received permission to leave colonies for the months of September, 1813, December, 1813, January and February, 1814, and January to September, 1816.
  4. Lists of names of colonists from the Odessa Settlement who returned to the colonies for the months of December, 1813 and January, 1814.
  5. Lists of names of colonists from the Josephstal Colony and Mennonites from the Chortitza Colony who received permission to leave the colonies for the month of August, 1813.
  6. Lists of names of Jewish colonists who received permission to leave the colonies for the months of June to November, 1814, and January, 1815.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
20 May 1813 to 11 Dec 1819. 457 pages. 722 frames.

File 735. File concerning the last will and testament of Abraham Regier from the village of Schoensee.

  1. Correspondence between the Guardianship Office and the Inspector of the Molotschna Colony about the necessity to prove the last will of Abraham Regier of Schoensee.
  2. Copy of his last will.

These documents are written in Russian.
26 Mar 1813 to May 1813. 5 pages. 10 frames.

File 736. File concerning an incident in which Jacob Bartel Mewsen of Kronsgarten was a witness to the conflict between the merchant Ivan Poltavtsev and the College Registrar, Ivan Vinarev. The former brought an action against the latter.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Novomoskovsk Minor Court and the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies about an action taken because of damages against the merchant Ivan Poltavtsev.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Novomoskovsk Minor Court and the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies about the need to call J. Bartel Mewsen in for testimony.

These documents are written in Russian.
27 Mar 1813 to 19 Apr 1813. 4 pages. 11 frames.

File 742. File concerning the testimonies of the Mennonites Bernhard Krahn, Peter Reimer, and Georg Krahn of Neuenburg, who were witnesses to an incident in which the keeper of the Neuenburg Station, T. Rikov, mercilessly assaulted (lashed) Ivan Arhipov. Mr. Arhipov was with some companions who were petty bourgeois from Ekaterinoslav.

  1. Correspondence between the Guardianship Office, the Chief of District Police, Mr. Zenkov, District Mayor Siemens, and the Ekaterinoslav District Court.
  2. Testimonies from Mennonites from Neuenburg (Georg Krahn, Bernhard Krahn and Peter Reimer) about the incident.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
12 May 1813 to 20 Jun 1813. 11 pages. 24 frames.

File 744. All officials dependent upon the Guardianship Office were to strictly perform their official duties by order from the Kherson Military Governor.

  1. An order from the Duke de Richelieu to the Guardianship Office.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Inspectors of the Molotschna, Chortitza, and Crimean Colonies, and the business manager of the settlements, Mr. Lashkarev, about the official duties.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
10 May 1813 to 14 Jul 1813. 12 pages. 21 frames.

File 746. File concerning the conflicts among Altonau Mennonites. Mennonite Klaas Wiens did not agree with the Altonau community and the clergy did not agree with the community. They quarreled among themselves over religious ceremonies.

  1. Report written by Mr. Sieber; the resolution of the Guardianship Office.
  2. Order from the Guardianship Office to the Chortitza District Office about the need to appoint respectable citizens in order that they may describe the reasons for the conflicts and to help reconcile the differences between the participants.
  3. Report written by District Mayor Siemens. He assented to go help restore agreement in the village of Altonau on the Molotschna River. Jacob Enns is mentioned.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
31 May 1813 to 10 Oct 1813. 8 pages. 18 frames.

File 748. Landowner Klevtsov, living on the Samara River, didn't release a widow, Mrs. Peter Friesen, who had left the Chortitza Colony. This event was written in the report from the Chortitza District Office.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Chortitza District Office and the Novomoskovsk Minor Court about the necessity to seek out and bring the Mennonite widow, Mrs. Friesen, back to the Chortitza Colonies.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
16 Jun 1813 to 24 Jan 1814. 13 pages. 24 frames.

File 752. File concerning a contract for the sale of wood. The Mennonite Klaas Wiens of Kronsgarten, and the merchants, Mr. Korolev and Mr. Voronov of Ekaterinoslav, entered into a contract for the sale of wood. Mr. Wiens sold a piece of woodland for timber to the merchants.

  1. Report written by Inspector Develdeev to the Guardianship Office about the contract.
  2. Petition written by Klaas Wiens to ratify the contract.
  3. Contract document (copy).
  4. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with Mr. Develdeev and the Ekaterinoslav Government Chamber about the contract.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
9 Jul 1813 to 21 Jun 1814. 10 pages. 18 frames.

File 753. File concerning an incident in which the prisoner F. Stashenok escaped from Mennonites from Kronsweide who were escorting him.

  1. Report from the Chortitza District Office to the Guardianship Office about the incident.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav Minor Court and Ekaterinoslav Government regarding the punishment and later release of the escorts.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
2 Aug 1813 to 7 Jan 1815. 20 pages. 38 frames.

File 755. File concerning an incident in which the officers of the Alexandrovsk Minor Court, D. F. Burminov and M. B. Krasnuchenko, petitioned the Emperor to investigate their assault by German colonists.

  1. Petition written by D. F. Burminov to the Emperor to investigate his assault by German colonists.
  2. Petition written by M. B. Krasnuchenko to the Emperor to investigate his assault by German colonists.
  3. The Guardianship Office considered the official report from the Chortitza District Office about the incident and drew a conclusion.
  4. The conclusion of the Guardianship Office.

These documents are written in Russian.
15 Aug 1813 to 23 Aug 1813. 9 pages. 20 frames.

File 756 is a continuation of File 755. File concerning an incident in which the Mennonites who lived near the Einlage ferry assaulted the following officers: College Registrar F. Burminov and Government Registrars M. B. Krasnuchenko and N. Yakovenko.

  1. Petition written by the officers to the Emperor to investigate the incident.
  2. Certificate that was given to D. F. Burminov and M. B. Krasnuchenko about physical evidences of their assault.
  3. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav Minor Court about the need to appoint delegates from the Guardianship Office for joint investigations the incident; about the need to summon the culprits.
  4. Reports written by the Chortitza District Office including an explanation of the incident.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
15 Aug 1813 to 20 Feb 1814. 29 pages. 57 frames.

File 758. File concerning the necessity to send delegates from the Guardianship Office to the Alexandrovsk Minor Court for joint investigations of the affair. Mrs. Juravlenkova, a resident of the town of Voznesensk, made a complaint about the assault of her son Michael against Daniel Goertzen of Schoenwiese.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Alexandrovsk Minor Court and the Ekaterinoslav Government on the occasion of investigations of this case.

These documents are written in Russian.
5 Sep 1813 to 22 Sep 1815. 10 pages. 22 frames.

File 764. Report written by the Elder of the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood, Mr. Waldner, about an incident in the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood in which Peter Ratzlaff left the colony without permission.

  1. Report from Mr. Waldner and the conclusions of the Guardianship Office about the situation in which Peter Ratzlaff left the colony without permission..
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Romensk City Police and the Poltava Government about searches for him.
  3. Report written by Mr. Delvedeev to the Guardianship Office about finding P. Ratzlaff.
  4. Report written the Chortitza District Office about the consent to admit P. Ratzlaff to their community.
  5. A list of the names and ages of Peter Ratzlaff's family in the Chortitza Colony in 1819 (frames 105, 107, 122, 123).
  6. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav Government Chamber concerning the taxes that P. Ratzlaff must pay.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
This file has been damaged by mold.
26 Sep 1813 to 12 Oct 1820. 91 pages. 158 frames.

File 766. File concerning an accident in which a cow harmed the young son of the retired Captain A. Katan. Captain Katan accused the Mayor of Schoenwiese (and other unnamed persons) of carelessness and he petitioned to the Emperor.

  1. Petition from A. Katan to the Emperor.
  2. Certificate that was given to the son Basil about his physical injuries.
  3. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Alexandrovsk Minor Court, the City Police, and the Chortitza District Office about this accident.
  4. Explanation written by the Mayor of Schoenwiese, Peter Krahn.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
14 Nov 1813 to 9 Mar 1815. 52 pages. 89 frames.

File 773. Lists concerning the welfare of the colonies from January to April, 1813. The Guardianship Office sent this statistical information to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Kherson Military Governor.

  1. Lists containing information about the number of the families, the number of females and males, the number of departing colonists and colonists who had recently arrived in the following colonies: the Odessa Settlement, Jamburg, Kronsgarten, Josephstal, Rybalsk, Danzig, Swedish, Crimea (Greeks, Bulgarians, and Ukrainians), Jewish, Smolensk, and the Molotschna Colony District (January to April, 1813, monthly and in aggregate from January to April, 1813).
  2. Records of the records of the births, deaths, and marriages of the colonists and Mennonites in the Crimean, Swedish, Prischib (frames 108-111, 113-115, 118-120, 124, 125, 159, 160) and Molotschna Mennonite Colonies (frames 111, 112, 116, 117, 122, 123, 158, 159).
  3. Summary lists containing information about the Ekaterinoslav Settlement, the Odessa Settlement (Greeks, Bulgarians, Slav-Serbians, and Germans), and the Crimean Colonies for the period from January to April, 1813.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
11 Feb 1813 to 10 Aug 1813. 181 pages. 301 frames.

File 774. File concerning the permission to borrow grain (270 chetvert* of rye from village reserve stores) for the Mennonites from the Chortitza Colonies since they had not had enough grain due to a cold winter and a poor harvest the previous summer.

  1. Correspondence from the Chortitza District Office with the Guardianship Office about permission to borrow grain from reserve stores for the Mennonites from the Chortitza Colonies.
  2. Order from the Guardianship Office to the Chortitza District Office about the permission to disperse the grain.

* 1 chetvert (loose material) = 291 liters.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
5 Feb 1813 to 7 Mar 1814. 23 pages. 33 frames.

File 775. Statistical information for 1813.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Kherson Civil Governor, I. X. Kalegeorgia, the inspectors of the colonies, and the district office concerning the need to schedule the lists of village reserve stores.
  2. Order from the Ekaterinoslav Civil Governor on the same subject (typographical copy). Sample of the list (typographical copy).
  3. Order from the Ministry of Police to the inspectors of the colonies on the same subject.
  4. Lists containing information about the amount of the grain that was reserved in village reserve stores of the colonies in the provinces of Ekaterinoslav, Kherson, and Chernigov for the period from January to June, 1813.
  5. Summary lists containing information about the harvest and the sowing of grain in the colonies of the provinces of Taurida, Ekaterinoslav, and Kherson for 1813.
  6. Lists containing information about the number of fruit and mulberry trees in the colonies in New Russia for 1813 for the various provinces, districts, and colonies.
  7. Lists containing information about the harvest and the sowing of grain in the colonies in New Russia for 1813.
  8. List containing information about the state of Spanish sheep breeding in the colonies in New Russia for 1813.
  9. Lists containing information about the acquisition of household effects in the colonies in New Russia for 1813 for the various provinces, districts, and colonies.
  10. Summary lists containing information about the amount of the grain that was reserved in village reserve stores of the colonies dependent on the Guardianship Office for 1813.
  11. Lists containing information about the number of cattle deaths for 1813 for the various provinces, districts, and colonies.
  12. Statistical lists containing information about the number of births, deaths, and marriages of the foreign settlers for 1813 for the various provinces, districts, and colonies.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
17 Mar 1813 to 29 Nov 1814. 167 pages. 314 frames.

File 780. Reports from the colonies to the Guardianship Office about birth rates and death rates in the colonies.

  1. Offer from the Chief Judge, S. X. Contenius, to the Guardianship Office regarding the need to schedule monthly lists of population statistics in the colonies. Order from the Duke de Richelieu.
  2. Reports written by the district offices in the colonies about sending the lists to the Guardianship Office.
  3. Statistical lists containing information about the number of births and deaths and the number of colonists absent on leave in the following colonies: the Molotschna Colony (Mennonites and other colonists), the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood, the Chortitza Colony, the Smolensk, Jewish, and Swedish Colonies in the Kherson Province, and the Josephstal and Danzig Colonies in the Elisabethgrad District for the period from October to December, 1813, and for the Crimea for 1813.
  4. Extractions from the records of the births, deaths, and marriages of the colonists, extractions from the records of colonists absent on leave in the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood for the period from July to October, 1813 (frame 13), the Chortitza Colony for October to December, 1813 (frames 15-19, 43, 44, 81-83), the Josephstal Colony, and the Rybalsk Colony for October, 1813.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
29 Sep 1813 to 13 Feb 1814. 67 pages. 97 frames.

File 781. Lists regarding the welfare of colonies from September to December, 1813. The Guardianship Office sent this statistical information to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Kherson Military Governor.

  1. Order from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Guardianship Office regarding the necessity to schedule lists.
  2. Reports written by inspectors and the Chortitza District Office about sending the lists to the Guardianship Office.
  3. Statistical lists containing information about the number of families, females, and males for the period from September to December, 1813 in the following colonies: The Odessa settlement (Gross Liebental, Klein Liebenthal, Alexanderhilf, Neuburg, Mariental, Josephstal, Peterstal, Freudenthal, Franzfeld, Lustdorf, Strasbourg, Selz, Kandel, Baden, Manheim, Elsass, and Odessa); The Crimea settlement (Chokurcha, Kronental, Heilbrunn, Sudak, Simferopol, Feodosia, the Feodosia District, Zuerichtal, Baltachokrak, Kishlav, and Old Crimea); The Molotschna Mennonite Colony (Halbstadt, Muntau, Schoenau, Fischau, Lindenau, Lichtenau, Blumstein, Muensterberg, Altonau, Ladekopp, Schoensee, Petershagen, Ohrloff, Tiege, and Rosenort; The Molotschna Prischib Colony (Montal, Rosental, Neudorf, Molotschnaya, Hoffental, Nassau, Weinau, Wasserau, Durlach, Kostheim, Leitershausen, Hochstaedt, Friedrichsfeld, Gruental, Heidelberg, and Waldorf); Swedish Colony (Klosterdorf, Miulganzendorf, Schlangendorf, and Old Swedish Sloboda).
  4. Lists containing information about the number of Mennonites who had recently arrived in the Chortitza Colonies.
  5. Lists containing information about the number of colonists who had recently arrived in the Smolensk and Jewish Colonies.
  6. Statistical lists containing information about the number of colonists in the German and Bulgarian Colonies on January 1, 1814.
  7. Extractions from the records of the births, deaths, and marriages of the colonists in the Crimean settlement, the Molotschna Mennonite Colony (frames 138, 139, 171, 172, 185-187, 20th - 22nd unnumbered frames after frame 454), the Prischib Colony (frame 70, 139-148, 173, 174, 187, 188, 22nd - 23rd unnumbered frames after frame 454), and the Swedish Colony.
  8. Information about the medical expenses in the Molotschna Colonies for the period from September to December of 1813.
  9. Summary lists concerning the colonies in New Russia for 1813.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
5 Sep 1813 to 23 Mar 1814. 224 pages. 389 frames.

File 803. Statistical information for 1812 that was sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Kherson Military Governor.

  1. Lists containing information about the amount of the grain that was reserved in village reserve stores in the colonies of the provinces of Ekaterinoslav, Taurida, Kherson and Chernigov for the first half of 1812, and for 1812 (except for the Odessa Settlement), and the Chortitza Colony for 1812.
  2. Summary lists containing information about the harvest and the sowing of grain in the colonies of the provinces of Taurida, Ekaterinoslav, and Kherson for 1812 (except for the Odessa Settlement).
  3. Lists containing information about the number of fruit and mulberry trees in the colonies in New Russia (except for the Odessa settlement) for 1812 (provinces, districts and colonies).
  4. Lists containing information about the harvest and sowing of grain in the colonies in New Russia for 1812.
  5. Summary list containing information about the state of Spanish sheep breeding in the colonies in New Russia for 1812.
  6. Lists containing information about acquisition of household effects in the colonies of New Russia (except for the Odessa settlement) for 1812 for various provinces, districts and colonies.
  7. Statistical lists containing information about the number of families, females and males, livestock, implements, spinning wheels in the Radichev Colony in the Korolev District for 1812.
  8. Lists containing information about the number of losses of cattle for 1812 for various provinces, districts, and colonies.
  9. Lists containing information about the number of Jewish colonists in the Kherson Province on October 10,1812, and for all of 1812.
  10. Statistical lists containing information about the number of births, deaths, and marriages of the foreign settlers for 1812 (provinces, districts and colonies, except for the Odessa Settlement).
  11. Reports written by inspectors and district offices in the colonies about sending the lists to the Guardianship Office.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
29 Mar 1812 to 14 May 1813. 103 pages. 187 frames.

File 806. File concerning hail-damaged crops in the colonies during 1812.

  1. Reports written by the inspectors of the colonies.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Duke de Richelieu about the possibility of helping the colonies.
  3. Lists containing information about the damage caused by hail to the property of the people from the villages of Neuenburg, Chortitza, Einlage, Rosenthal, and Schoenwiese in the Chortitza Colony, the villages of Gruental, Durlach, Fischau, and Lindenau in the Molotschna Colony, and the village of Zuerichtal in the Crimean Colony.
  4. Lists naming the owners that had suffered losses because of hailstorms in the villages of Gruental, Durlach, Fischau, and Lindenau (frames 59-67).
  5. Report and Correspondence.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
10 Jun 1812 to 11 Sep 1813. 45 pages. 80 frames.

1814

File 815. File concerning the return of colonists home from various places. They left the colonies with temporary passports and had not returned back to their colonies.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the inspectors of the Molotschna and the Crimean Colonies, the Chief of Kharkov Police, the Ekaterinoslav City Police, the Feodosia City Police, the Josephstal District Office, the Taurida Government Expedition, the Chief of Feodosia, the Director of the Port of Sevastopol, Admiral Rojnov, and the Chief of the Sevastopol Fleet, Admiral Bichevsky, regarding searches and the return of the missing colonists to their homes.
  2. List of the missing colonists which include David Stein and his family, Karl Johann Bohr, and Johann Maker of the Molotschna Colonies, Mennonite Helena Lyman of the Molotschna Colonies, David Kopp of the Josephstal Colony, Daniel Hoffmann and his family of the Molotschna Colonies, Gottlieb Kaiser and his family, Joseph Loch and his family, Susanna Weiss, Anton Kerner, Anna Riler, Anna Maria Riler, Andreas Eleret, and Gottlieb Strobel.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
14 Nov 1814 to 20 Feb 1820. 69 pages. 107 frames.

File 818. File concerning an incident in the village of Kronstal in which the Mennonites Johann Schroeder and Cornelius Balman assaulted Martin Siemens.

  1. Reports written by the Chortitza District Office.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav City Police, the Inspector of the Crimean Colonies, Mr. Gsell, and the Ekaterinoslav Charity Government about the incident.
  3. Signed statement written by M. Siemens about his forgiveness of Johann Schroeder and Cornelius Balman.
  4. Signed statement written by Johann Schroeder and Cornelius Balman about their repentance for their action.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
31 Dec 1813 to 18 Jun 1814. 35 pages. 51 frames.

File 827. File concerning an incident in which a herd of horses that belonged to the priest F. Pivovarov from the village of Chernigovka trampled down the cornfields that belonged to Mennonites from Halbstadt and Muntau. The priest was to have paid for the damages (a fine of 58 rubles), but he did not. Mr. Sieber, the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, wrote a report concerning this incident.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Melitopol Minor Court, the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, the priest of Pokrov Church, P. Zegelnikov, and the priest G. Rovinsky from the village of Gross Tokmak about the incident and the need to obtain the fine from the priest F. Pivovarov.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
21 Feb 1814 to 30 Jan 1815. 24 pages. 43 frames.

File 830. The Ekaterinoslav City Police made a request to the Guardianship Office to send delegates from the Guardianship Office in order to jointly investigate a criminal case about the theft of property and money from the Mennonite David Schroeder who was living in Ekaterinoslav. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav City Police, the Ekaterinoslav City Council, the Ekaterinoslav Criminal Court, and the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Develdeev.

  1. Correspondence about the theft of property and money from the house of the Mennonite D. Schroeder.
  2. Correspondence about the need to take into custody and prosecute a member of the Ekaterinoslav petty bourgeois, S. Borodin, who was suspected of the theft.
  3. Correspondence about the need to send delegates from the Guardianship Office in order to jointly investigate the criminal case about the theft of property and money from Mennonite David Schroeder who lived in Ekaterinoslav.

These documents are written in Russian.
15 Mar 1814 to 30 Nov 1814. 12 pages. 23 frames.

File 833. Klaas Wiens, the representative from the Molotschna Mennonite community, wrote a petition to the Guardianship Office to have them give him 6 copies of the Letter of Privileges from the Emperor of Russia so he could use the copies as necessary.

  1. Petition written by K. Wiens.
  2. Resolution written by the Guardianship Office to give out the first copy of the Letter of Privileges because the Guardianship Office didn't have any more copies.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
7 Apr 1814 to 9 Apr 1814. 2 pages. 8 frames.

File 835. Reports written by the inspectors of the colonies and local governments about fires that occurred in their colonies.

  1. Reports written by the inspectors of the Crimea, Jewish, and Molotschna Colonies about fires.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
1 Apr 1814 to 26 May 1815. 41 pages. 64 frames.

File 841. File concerning an incident in which a deserter, A. Klementev (or I. Bikov), escaped from Peter Enns' house in Chortitza. The Chortitza District Office accused the sentries of carelessness and wrote a report to the Guardianship Office about this.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav Minor Court regarding the report written by the Chortitza District Office.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav Minor Court about the need to punish the guilty persons.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
20 May 1814 to 18 Nov 1814. 19 pages. 37 frames.

File 842. A merchant from Nikolaev, F. Isakov (the attorney of L. G. Albertov), petitioned the Guardianship Office to render him assistance in finding lumber which was swept away by a flood on the Dnepr River. He had already found part of the lumber in Kronsweide and Schoenwiese.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with F. Isakov and L. Albertov about this assistance. Jacob Neufeld of Kronsweide is mentioned.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
26 May 1814 to 25 Jun 1814. 6 pages. 13 frames.

File 850. Schoolteachers from the Chortitza Colonies accused P. Siemens of the misappropriation of public monies when he served as the District Mayor of the Chortitza Colonies. The Chortitza District Office considered their hearsay evidence as insults to P. Siemens and his assistant. Mr. von Lau wrote a report to the Guardianship Office about this.

  1. Report written by the Chortitza District Office.
  2. Declaration written by Mr. von Lau.
  3. Testimonies written by communities from the villages of Chortitza, Insel Chortitza, Nieder Chortitza, Einlage, Rosenthal, Kronsweide, Neuenburg, Schoenhorst, Kronstal, and Burwalde. The documents include signatures of the village mayors of the Chortitza Colony as well as the heads of households from many of the villages (frames 35-71).
  4. "Journal of investigations". The Guardianship Office delivered a verdict that P. Siemens was not guilty.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
11 Mar 1813 to 4 Oct 1814. 45 pages. 75 frames.

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File 852. Attorney Malama wrote a declaration to the Guardianship Office about rudeness of David Schroeder.

  1. Declaration written by Mr. Malama.
  2. Cash voucher written by D. Schroeder (15 rubles for wood).

These documents are written in Russian.
7 Jul 1814 to 8 Jul 1814. 2 pages. 7 frames.

File 858. The business manager of the settlements, College Adviser Lifanov, made a suggestion to the Guardianship Office to send him information about the sowing and harvest of spring crops in the colonies supervised by the Guardianship Office in 1814.

  1. Suggestion written by College Adviser Lifanov to the Guardianship Office regarding the necessity to send him information about the sowing and harvest of spring crops in the colonies supervised by the Guardianship Office in 1814.
  2. Reports written by inspectors of the colonies containing information about the sowing and harvest of spring crops in the Danzig Village Government's colonies and the Chortitza District Office's villages, including lists of names of farmers from Chortitza, Rosenthal, Burwalde, Insel Chortitza, Schoenwiese, Einlage, Kronsweide, Neuenburg, Neuendorf, Schoenhorst, Kronsthal, and Neu Osterwick (frames 28-51).
  3. Report from the Crimean Colonies including lists of names of proprietors in Chokurcha, Kronenthal, Heilbrunn, Zuerichtal, Kishlav, and Old Crimea. Lists containing information about the sowings, which were made each owner separately.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
13 Jul 1814 to 25 Nov 1814. 58 pages. 91 frames.

File 861. The Chortitza Colony community wished to send two deputies, Jacob Enns and Gerhard Willems, to St. Petersburg to obtain Emperor Alexander the First's approval of the Charter of Privileges that had been given by Emperor Paul the First on September 6, 1800. The Chortitza Village Governments reported to the Guardianship Office about this.

  1. Report written by the village governments of the Chortitza Colonies.
  2. Draft of a passport for Jacob Enns and Gerhard Willems.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
6 Aug 1814 to 13 Aug 1814. 7 pages. 15 frames.

Microfilm No. 949

File 866. File concerning an incident in which Ivan Voloshin, a settler of Tokmak, had stolen a horse from a herd that belonged to Mennonites from Fuerstenau. Mennonites Johann Thiessen and Peter Wiebe beat him because of this theft.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Orekhov City Police, the Melitopol Minor Court, and the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies concerning I. Voloshin who had stolen a horse.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Orekhov City Police, the Melitopol Minor Court, and the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies concerning two weeks' imprisonment of the Mennonites from Fuerstenau, Johann Thiessen and Peter Wiebe, who had beaten I. Voloshin.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
15 May 1813 to 21 Aug 1815. 30 pages.

Microfilm No. 797



File 867. The Ekaterinoslav City Police wrote two official letters to the Guardianship Office regarding the necessity to bring the "prohibition against housing people without written residence permits" to the notice of the colonists. The first letter contains a demand to take the Mennonite Johann Brandt to the police and the second letter contains a demand to take the colonist Martha Brimer to the police as she had housed a woman who did not have a written residence permit.

  1. Correspondence between the Guardianship Office and the Ekaterinoslav City Police about the prohibition against holding people without written residence permits.
  2. A group of colonists and Mennonites living in Ekaterinoslav was given a written notice not to house people who did not have written residence permits.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
19 Aug 1814 to 8 Sep 1814. 5 pages. 13 frames.

Microfilm No. 949

File 870. The Melitopol District Court made a request to the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Sieber, to send the Mennonites Anna Loewen, Abraham Kornelsen, Cornelius De Fehr, and Heinrich Wiens to the court in order to investigate a criminal case about the disappearance of a horse belonging to the Mennonite Abraham Kornelsen. Inspector Sieber reported to the Guardianship Office about this.

  1. Report written by Inspector Sieber to the Guardianship Office about the request of the Melitopol District Court.
  2. Report written by Inspector Sieber to the Guardianship Office about the need to send a translator for the court proceedings because the Mennonites didn't speak Russian.
  3. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Taurida Government and the Taurida Civil Governor Borozdin about the need to obey the law and to send the Mennonites to testify in court.

19 Sep 1814 to 24 Dec 1814. 11 pages.

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File 872. The Melitopol District Court sent to Inspector Sieber a court decision regarding a case concerning the Mennonite Gerhard Wiebe about the clandestine making of wine and other matters. Inspector Sieber reported to the Guardianship Office about this.

  1. Report written by Inspector Sieber.
  2. Court decision about the transportation of wine that was purchased by Gerhard Wiebe in the village of Halbstadt through lands that didn't belong to the Mennonites.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
21 Sep 1814 to 11 Dec 1814. 10 pages. 22 frames.

File 877. File concerning the colonist Johann Bohr's debt of 360 rubles to Titular Councilor S. Gromeka.

  1. Petition written by S. Gromeka to Emperor Alexander the First.
  2. Promissory note written by Johann Bohr.
  3. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Sloboda-Ukrainiansk Government, the Chief of Novomoskovsk City Police, and the Molotschna District Office regarding the debt of Johann Bohr.
  4. Confirmation written by S. Gromeka about the receipt of this debt.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
19 Oct 1814 to 2 Jul 1819. 36 pages. 60 frames.

File 879. Information about the arrest of the Mennonite Joseph Nowitzky by the Ekaterinoslav City Police for not having a written residence permit. This was reported to the Guardianship Office.

  1. Report written by the Chortitza District Office.
  2. Announcement written by the Ekaterinoslav City Police about the arrest of J. Nowitzky.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
23 Oct 1814 to 17 Nov 1814. 3 pages. 9 frames.

File 880. File concerning an incident in which the Mennonite Peter Boris? saw his horse with a man from the Caucasus, Anderm Scheneev, and had brought an action against him. The Melitopol District Court delivered a verdict stating that Anderm Scheneev was not guilty and that obliged Peter Boris? to pay legal costs of 15 rubles.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Taurida Government and the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies.
  2. Notes from the documents of the Melitopol District Court.

These documents are written in Russian.
9 Nov 1814 to 5 Nov 1815. 10 pages. 21 frames.

File 881. File concerning colonists who had illegally left their colonies.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Elder of the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood, Mr.Waldner, the Inspector of the Swedish Colonies, Mr. Dalke, and the Kiev, Chernigov, and Volinsk Governments regarding searches and the return of the following colonists to their legal homes: Peter Ratzlaff and his family of Radichev, Joseph Wielt of Schlangendorf, Johann Schweizer of Muehlhausendorf, and Dorothy Becker and her daughter Anna of Schlangendorf.
  2. Debt account of Joseph Wielt (1804-1807).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
1 Nov 1814 to 15 Oct 1815. 31 pages. 55 frames.

File 888. File concerning an incident in which the Mennonite Jacob Toews of Ekaterinoslav petitioned to the Guardianship Office for protection from Major Fuerstenau who rented his house. Major Fuerstenau had beaten Aganetha Toews, the wife of Jacob Toews.

  1. Petition written by Mennonite Jacob Toews to the Guardianship Office.
  2. Letter from the Guardianship Office to Ekaterinoslav Medical Administration containing a request for them to examine Aganetha Toews.
  3. Certificate that was given to Aganetha Toews about her physical injuries.
  4. Letter from the Guardianship Office to the commander of the Ekaterinoslav garrison battalion, Colonel Tarasevich, regarding the need to investigate the incident.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
21 Dec 1814 to 11 Feb 1815. 16 pages. 30 frames.

File 890. File concerning the permission to borrow grain from the reserve stores granted to Mennonites and colonists from the Ekaterinoslav Settlement, who needed grain for food and spring sowing.

  1. Reports written by Inspectors Sieber, Develdeev, and Hauschteck, the Elder of the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood, Mr. Waldner, and the Molotschna District Office containing information about the poor harvest in 1813 and the shortage of grain for food and sowing. Reports containing requests to borrow grain from the reserve stores.
  2. Lists of the villages in the Molotschna Colonies in which settlers needed grain.
  3. Lists of the names of colonists who needed grain in the following villages in the Molotschna Colonies: Montal, Rosental, Reichenfeld, Neudorf, Molotschna, Hoffental, Nassau, Weinau, Wasserau, Durlach, Kostheim, Leitershausen, Hochstaedt, Friedrichsfeld, Gruental, Heidelberg, and Waldorf.
  4. Lists dated March 26, 1815 of the names of Mennonites who needed grain in the following villages in the Molotschna Colony: Muntau, Schoenau, Fischau, Lindenau, Lichtenau, Blumstein, Blumenort, Rueckenau, Ladekopp, Schoensee, Petershagen, Tiegenhagen, Tiege, and Rosenort, as well as those in the Josephstal, Rybalsk, and Jamburg Colonies (frames 58-64).
  5. Lists dated March 6, 1816 of the names of Mennonites who needed grain in the following villages in the Molotschna Colony: Muntau, Fischau, Blumstein, Ladekopp, Lindenau, Rosenort, Fuerstenau, Rueckenau, Schoensee, Petershagen, Tiegenhagen, Tiege, and Blumenort (frames 102-106).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
21 Feb 1814 to 22 Sep 1815. 73 pages. 122 frames.

File 897. The Elder of the Radichev Hutterite Brotherhood, Mr. Waldner, reported to the Guardianship Office about a contagious disease among many of the settlers there.

  1. Reports written by Waldner.
  2. Correspondences from the Guardianship Office with the Chernigov Governor about the need to send a doctor to the Radichev Colony for the treatment of the sick.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
1 Jun 1814 to 1 Aug 1814. 16 pages. 26 frames.

File 900. Statistical information regarding the welfare of colonies from May to August, 1814. The Guardianship Office sent this statistical information to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Kherson Military Governor.

  1. Statistical lists containing information about the number of families, females and males in the following colonies: the Odessa Settlement, Jamburg, Kronsgarten, Josephstal, Rybalsk (Novomoskovsk District), Swedish, the Crimean Settlement, Jewish, Smolensk, Molotschna colonists and Molotschna Mennonites, and settlers who had recently arrived in the Chortitza Colony from May to August 1814, including monthly totals and the total for 1814.
  2. Summary lists containing information about all the colonies from May to August, 1814.
  3. List of the names of colonists from the Crimean Colonies containing information about the number of births and deaths and the number of colonists who arrived and departed from May to August, 1814.
  4. Extractions from the records of the births, deaths, and marriages of the colonists and Mennonites and the number of colonists and Mennonites who arrived and departed from May to June, 1814 in the Molotschna Mennonite Colony (frames 89, 90, 114, 115, 135-164) and the Prischib Colony (frames 34, 35, 46, 47, 62, 69, 90, 91, 115-117, 167-170, 178, 179).
  5. Extractions from the records of the births, deaths, and marriages of the Swedish Colony from May to August, 1814.
  6. Information about people who were ill and about the money spent on their treatment from May to August, 1814 in the Molotschna Colonies.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
27 Jun 1814 to 22 Dec 1814. 248 pages. 351 frames.

File 901. The business manager of the settlements and the Odessa Settlement Court Counselor, Mr. Lashkarev, made a suggestion to the Guardianship Office to sell wool from colony sheep flocks, which were communal property, to the Ekaterinoslav cloth factory.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the business manager, Court Counselor Lashkarev, concerning the sale of wool.
  2. Petition written by P. Penner of Schoenwiese to receive the money for the wool.
  3. Resolution written by the Guardianship Office after the report from the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies about the public monies of the Molotschna Colonies.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
9 Sep 1814 to 24 Mar 1816. 12 pages. 23 frames.

File 902. Statistical information for 1814 that was sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Kherson Military Governor.

  1. Statistical lists containing information about the quantity of grain that was reserved in village reserve stores in the colonies dependent upon the Guardianship Office and in the colonies of the Taurida Province and the Odessa Settlement.
  2. Statistical list containing information about the harvest and sowing of grain in the colonies of the provinces of Taurida, Ekaterinoslav, and Kherson and in the colonies of the Odessa Settlement for 1814.
  3. Statistical list containing information about the number of fruit and mulberry trees in the colonies of the Odessa and Ekaterinoslav Settlements.
  4. Summary list containing information about the harvest and sowing of grain in the colonies in New Russia. Notes from the list contain information about the quantity of grain that was sown and was harvested by each family and about the quantity of grain that was needed for each colony for food and sowing, and about the quantity of grain left over to sell.
  5. Summary list containing information about the state of Spanish sheep breeding in the colonies dependent on the Guardianship Office of Foreign Settlers.
  6. Statistical list containing information about the acquisition of household effects in the Chortitza Colonies and the colonies of the Odessa Settlement.
  7. Statistical list containing information about the numbers of cattle deaths in the colonies in New Russia and in the Odessa Settlement.
  8. Statistical lists containing information about the number of births, deaths, and marriages of the foreign settlers in all the colonies and separately in the colonies of the Odessa Settlement.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
10 Jan 1814 to 21 May 1815. 98 pages. 207 frames.

1815

File 919. File concerning the issuance of temporary passports to colonists who had obtained permission to leave the colonies for business and private affairs and for trips abroad.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Chortitza District Office, the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Develdeev, the Inspector of the Crimean Colonies, Mr. von Remling, and the Ekaterinoslav District Exchequer about the issuance of temporary passports to the following colonists: Peter Wieler (Kronsgarten), Gerhard Bergen (Kronsgarten), Christian Tenich (Mayor of Rybalsk), Johann Bren (or Breck) (Rybalsk), Anton Bruner (Josephstal), Frederick Gering (Josephstal), Johann Bitser (Heilbrunn), Joseph Nowitzky (Chortitza Colony), Johann Peters (Chortitza), Kral Stoyan (Kishlav), Nigel Jekko (Kishlav), Nedelko Todorov (Old Crimea), Dimo Bratin (Old Crimea), Jelezko Nyano (Old Crimea), Georg Kuhn (Josephstal), Johann Becker (Josephstal), Georg Waldner (Jamburg), Jacob Tonhauzer (Jamburg), Johann and Daniel Schroeder (Josephstal), August Schmidt (Josephstal), Frederick Schtink (Josephstal), Klaas Wiens (Kronsgarten), Gerhard Spurgeon (Klosterdorf), Gabriel Schpuring (Rybalsk), Christian Kuhn (Josephstal), Johann Klass (Kronsgarten), Wolfgang Walner (Jamburg), Joseph Simon Kirsch (Chortitza), Johann Rischkob (Josephstal), Peter Siemens (District Mayor of the Chortitza Colony), David Epp (minister in Chortitza), Peter Friesen (Chortitza), Aron Peters (Neuendorf), Abraham Friesen (Schoenhorst), Martin Brandt (Schoenhorst), Derk Rempel (Schoenhorst), Franz Jantzen (Kronsweide), Nathaniel Goerz (Schoenwiese), Abraham Jantzen (Schoenwiese), and Abraham Buller (Kronsweide).
  2. Passports for the following colonists: Johann von Bergen (Kronsgarten), Peter Wieler (Kronsgarten), Johann Bietser (Heilbrunn), Abraham Jantzen (Schoenwiese), Nathaniel Goertzen (Schoenwiese), Franz Jantzen (Kronsweide), Abraham Buller (Kronsweide), David Epp (Chortitza), Aron Peters (Neuendorf), Peter Friesen (Chortitza), Martin Brandt (Schoenhorst), and Derk Rempel (Schoenhorst).
  3. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Poltava Vice-Governor G. A. Boyarinov concerning the need to give the rank of artisans to the children of the deceased widow Barbara Schmidt of the Kronenthal Colony in Poltava.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
6 May 1813 to Dec 1815. 116 pages. 197 frames.

File 923. File concerning correspondence from the Guardianship Office regarding an incident in which a merchant from Ekaterinoslav, Joseph Zaitsev, brought a suit against Mennonites from the Chortitza Colonies. He accused the Mennonites of the theft of hot wine that belonged to him.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Chortitza Local Government, the Ekaterinoslav Minor Court and District Courts, the Ekaterinoslav City Police, and Inspector Develdeev about the conflict between merchant J. Zaitsev, a wine grower in the Chortitza Colonies, and Mennonites from the Chortitza Colony.
  2. Testimony written by Joseph Zaitsev about making wine.
  3. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav District Court, City Council, and the Ekaterinoslav Public Prosecutor regarding the necessity to expedite the investigation of this case.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
17 Feb 1815 to 23 Jul 1820. 100 pages. 200 frames.

File 926. File concerning the debt of 150 rubles, 5 kopecks, that the colonist R. Aberle of the Zuerichtal Colony owed to the Jew, Mr. Walburn. There is also information in this file about orphans' money.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Inspector of the Crimean Colonies, Mr. von Remling, regarding the debt of R. Aberle; a list of the property of the deceased R. Aberle.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with inspectors of the Colonies about orphans' money. Reports, resolutions, and orders written by the Guardianship Office concerning management of the orphans' money.
  3. Reports written by inspectors of the Jewish, Josephstal, and Crimean Colonies about state of the orphan funds in the colonies.
  4. Reports written by the Chortitza District Office and the Molotschna District Office about the orphans' money. Lists of the orphans' money that was lent to settlers from 1813 to January 1, 1815. Lists containing information about the increase in amount of the orphans' funds due to public sales of orphans' property and interest that was received.
  5. Certificates written by guardians regarding the use of orphans' money.
  6. Lists showing the amount of money that was collected from the public sale of the property of the deceased colonists: Peter Benz of Rosental; Michael Ganter and Martin Strobel of Friedenthal; Mateus German and Sebastian Treiber of Neusatz; Johann Merkel, Heinrich Ott, and Jacob Schmidt of Kronenthal; Ludwig Erminger, Adam Pfeifer, Johann Nefh, Johann Buchmann, Christopher Volder, and Jacob Guth of Zuerichtal; Johann Faller of Neusatz; Johann Ber and Peter Medier of Zuerichtal; M. Renner of Neusatz.
  7. Lists containing information about all orphans' monetary funds in the Molotschna Mennonite Colony (frames 410-519) and the Chortitza Colony available on January 1, 1819 (covering the years from 1815 to 1819) (frames 550-584). The lists for the Molotschna Colony generally include the names of the orphans and their fathers and the date that they became orphans, as well as the names of the villages where their fathers were from. The lists for the Chortitza Colony generally include the names of the fathers of the orphans, the number of orphaned children that they had, and the year that they became orphans. The lists for the Chortitza Colony also include the names of the men from each village who borrowed money from the orphans' funds. These men are arranged according to their household numbers in those villages.
  8. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav Public Charity concerning sending and receiving the orphans' money.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
8 Feb 1815 to 16 Jan 1820. 335 pages. 586 frames.

File 928. File concerning the debt owed by the Mennonite Joseph Nowitzky to the merchant Basil Bobrov of Alexandrovsk.

  1. A report written the Chortitza District Office to the Guardianship Office.
  2. A petition written J. Nowitzky with explanation of his innocence.
  3. A resolution from the Guardianship Office with mention of the following paragraph of internal rule: "Settlers are prohibited from giving a promissory note to anyone without the permission of the authorities".

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
12 Mar 1815 to 29 Nov 1815. 9 pages. 18 frames.

File 937. File concerning an incident in which the Radichev Colony Brotherhood accused Adam Wollman of theft and expelled him from the Radichev Hutterite Brotherhood. Adam Wollman didn't agree with this sentence. The Elder of the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood, Mr. Waldner, reported to the Guardianship Office about this.

  1. Reports written by the Elder of the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood, Mr. Waldner, to the Guardianship Office about the incident.
  2. A resolution from the Guardianship Office to reinstate Adam Wollman in the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood.
  3. The certificate that was given by the Guardianship Office to A. Wollman.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
25 May 1815 to 1 Aug 1815. 6 pages. 13 frames.

File 944. Colonist Johann Fein from Ekaterinoslav and the Mennonite Johann Klassen from Rosenort made a contract for the construction of a cloth factory in the Molotschna Colonies. The Guardianship Office ratified this contract.

  1. A petition written by J. Klassen and J. Fein.
  2. Reports written by the inspectors of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Sieber and Mr. Hauschteck, and the Molotschna District Office regarding the construction of the cloth factory and the establishment of this factory in Halbstadt.
  3. Contract documents containing information about land for the construction of the cloth factory. The parties signing the contract include the Molotschna Mennonite community of Halbstadt, J. Klassen, and J. Fein.
  4. Contract documents containing information about the construction and the equipment of cloth factory and its management. Contracting parties are J. Klassen and J. Fein.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
12 Aug 1815 to 1 Nov 1815. 26 pages. 49 frames.

File 951. The Mennonite Klaas Wiens informed the Guardianship Office about the Mennonite Johann Heide from Halbstadt. He accused Johann Heide of a theft of public monies (7000 rubles) from the former Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Sieber.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Chief Trustee of the Settlers in South Russia, I. N. Inzov, the Assistant of the Chief Judge, Mr. von Lau, the Inspectors of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Hauschteck and Mr. von Plotto, the Melitopol Minor Court, and the Molotschna District Office regarding the information against the Mennonite Johann Heide.
  2. The Guardianship Office delivered a verdict of not guilty to Johann Heide. Klaas Wiens was imprisoned for one month for providing false information. Johann Heide bought a claim against K. Wiens.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
16 Oct 1815 to 25 May 1821. 79 pages. 138 frames.

File 962. File concerning an incident in which the District Mayor of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Walther, quarreled with the District Office's clerk, Mr. Treschwing.

  1. Reports written by the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Hauschteck, about the incident.
  2. An explanation written by the District Mayor of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Walther, concerning this incident.
  3. A petition written by the District Mayor of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Walther, to retire from his appointment, which he held for 6 years.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
29 Oct 1815 to 20 Nov 1815. 22 pages. 43 frames.

File 965. Information regarding local authorities who oppressed the Radichev Hutterite Brotherhood. This was the conclusion that was drawn by the Guardianship Office as the result of an investigation of the economic condition of the Radichev Hutterite Colony.

  1. A decision by the Guardianship Office to investigate the economic condition of the Radichev Hutterite Colony. Letter written by the Assistant to the Chief Judge of the Guardianship Office, A. Fadeev, about this problem.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ukrainian Chernigov Government Chamber concerning offenses the Krolevetsk District Treasurer made against the Radichev Hutterites.
  3. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Elder of the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood, Mr. Waldner, the Ukrainian Chernigov Civil Governor, and the Krolevetsk District Minor Court regarding illegal actions by E. Trempanau (native Liflyandiyan) who incited the settlers to disobey local authorities and regarding the false claims of inhabitants from the village belonging to landlord Zabela-Aptov to lands that belonged to the Radichev Mennonite Brotherhood.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
22 Dec 1815 to 18 Aug 1822. 56 pages. 109 frames.

File 969. The Ministry of Internal Affairs ordered the Guardianship Office to send statistical information about public monies in the colonies.

  1. An order from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Guardianship Office to send statistical information about public monies in the colonies. Correspondence concerning this problem.
  2. Reports written by the inspectors, including Mr. Develdeev, the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. von Remling, the Inspector of the Crimean Colonies, Mr. Chicherin, the Inspector of the Jewish Colonies, and Mr. Leontovich, the Inspector of the Smolensk peasants. Lists containing information about the sources of revenue of public monies in the following colonies: the Josephstal, Rybalsk, Kronsgarten, Jamburg, Chortitza, Zuerichtal, Chokurcha, Smolensk, Molotschna, and Swedish Colonies.
  3. Reports written by the Chortitza, Danzig, and Radichev District and Village Offices on the same subject.
  4. Lists containing information about the state of Spanish sheep breeding in the colonies of the Odessa Settlement and the amount of wool that was sheared from this breed in 1814.
  5. Lists containing information about the annual salary of mayors that was paid from the public monies of the Odessa Settlement.
  6. Lists containing information about mills, gardens, fishing, and lands that were taken on lease until 1815 in the colonies of the Odessa Settlement.
  7. A note from the letter written by the Minister of Internal Affairs regarding the duty of inspectors in Bessarabia. Correspondence from the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the Guardianship Office about the appointment of inspectors in the Bessarabia Colonies.
  8. A statement written by S. X. Contenius about the state of sheep breeding, silkworm breeding, and arboriculture in the colonies from 1800 to 1815.
  9. Instructions that were given by the Duke de Richelieu to the Inspector of the Crimean Colonies, Mr. Gastfer in 1803, 1804 (copies).
  10. An order from the Department of the State Economy and Public Building to the Guardianship Office concerning the use public incomes. Correspondence from the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the business manager of the Odessa Settlements on the same subject.
  11. A list from an order to the inspectors and district offices that includes information about the division of public monies among districts. An order written by the business manager of the settlements, Mr. Lashkarev, in connection with this. The order contains information about the sources of income of the public monies in the colonies, such as from the sale of wine and from Spanish sheep breeding.
  12. Lists containing information about the expenditure of public monies. The compiler of these lists was the business manager of the settlements, Mr. Lashkarev.
  13. Lists containing information about the salaries that were paid and about office expenses. Lists containing information about public establishments in the colonies, about labor and rent, and about the revenue of the public monies in the colonies.
  14. A report written by the business manager of the settlements, Mr. Lashkarev, to the Department of the State Economy and Public Building about the public monies.
  15. An order from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Guardianship Office to account for the low rent rates for the land belonging to the Molotschna colonists. Report written by the Guardianship Office in connection with this.
  16. Instructions for the Main Inspector of the Bessarabia Colonies (copy).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
18 Dec 1814 to 19 Mar 1817. 297 pages. 549 frames.

File 973. Statistical information regarding the welfare of colonies from January to April, 1815.

  1. Lists containing information about the number of births and deaths, the number of sick colonists, the number of departing colonists and colonists who had recently arrived in the following colonies: the Chortitza, Josephstal, Danzig, Swedish, Crimea, Jewish, Smolensk, and Molotschna Colonies from January to April, 1815.
  2. Extractions from the records of the births, deaths, and marriages of the colonists in the Swedish colonies: Klosterdorf, Muehlhausendorf, and Schlangendorf.
  3. Summary lists containing information about the welfare of the colonies in the Odessa Settlement from January to April, 1815.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
30 Jan 1815 to 20 May 1815. 143 pages. 225 frames.

Microfilm No. 798

1816

File 1018. Information regarding the state of sheep breeding and public monies in the Molotschna, Josephstal, and Chortitza Colonies.

  1. An offer from S. X. Contenius to the Guardianship Office about the need to purchase pedigreed rams, and a request to report about the number of sheep and the amount of public monies.
  2. Lists containing information about the number of the improved breed of sheep in the Chortitza Colonies, Josephstal, Rybalsk, Jamburg, and Kronsgarten Colonies.
  3. Information about the public monies in Josephstal, including a list.
  4. An announcement from S. X. Contenius to Inspector Hauschteck about rams that were bought and were shipped in the colonies.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
14 Mar 1816 to 13 Jul 1816. 36 pages. 68 frames.

File 1022. Statistical information regarding the welfare of colonies from May to August 1816.

  1. Reports written by inspectors of the colonies concerning submissions of the lists.
  2. Statistical lists containing information about the number of births and deaths and the number of departing colonists and colonists who had recently arrived who were on the lists on May 1, 1816 in the Chortitza, Josephstal, Danzig, Swedish, Crimea, Jewish, Smolensk, Molotschna, and Radichev Colonies for the period May to August, 1816.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
1 May 1816 to 22 Mar 1817. 164 pages. 304 frames.

File 1024. Statistical information regarding the welfare of colonies both from September to December, 1816 and for the entire year.

  1. Reports written by inspectors of the colonies concerning submissions of the lists.
  2. Statistical lists containing information about the number of births and deaths and the number of departing colonists and colonists who had recently arrived in the Josephstal, Danzig, Swedish, Crimea, Jewish, Smolensk, Jamburg, Rybalsk, Molotschna, and Chortitza Colonies from September to December, 1816.
  3. Summary lists containing information about the welfare of the colonies from September to December, 1816 and for 1816.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
1 Oct 1816 to 18 Mar 1817. 161 pages. 245 frames.

File 1026. File concerning the unwillingness of Mr. Siemens (who was elected again for 3 years) to fulfill the duties as District Mayor of the Chortitza Colonies and about the petition from the Guardianship Office to reward him for fulfillment of this duty for 13 years.

  1. This file has been lost.

11 Dec 1816 to 29 Apr 1819. 42 pages.

File 1028. File concerning the issuance of temporary passports to colonists.

  1. Correspondence from inspectors of the colonies of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement with the Guardianship Office and petitions written by the colonists concerning the issuance of temporary (for a term of one year) passports and tickets. The list of the colonists who wished to leave in search of a job in the Ekaterinoslav, Poltava, and Kherson provinces: Maria Magdalene Unkgein (Molotschna Colony), Philip Schmidt (Ekaterinoslav), Elizabeth Zimmermann (Ekaterinoslav), Philip Boehm (Molotschna Colony), Johann Winkler (Prischib Colony), Frederick Kirschbaum (Prischib Colony), Georg Juneke (Ekaterinoslav), Herman Ziend (Elizabethgrad), Jacob Sneiter (New Nassau Colony), Melhior Meinrad (Molotschna Colony), Matteas Ehrenfried or Ehrenfelt (Prischib Colony), Johann Bohr (Molotschna Colony), Johann Scheirich or Scheurich (Molotschna Colony), Johann Keze (Molotschna Colony), Johann Martin (Prischib Colony), Casper Binkmann (Heidelberg Colony), David Schroeder ( Ekaterinoslav, Mennonite), Gottlieb Kruger (Ekaterinoslav), Johann Marq (or Marg)(Molotschna Colony), Elizabeth Nasseid (Molotschna Colony), Johann Heyer (Weinau Colony), Franz Sebastian (Molotschna Colony), Barbara Sebastian (Prischib Colony), Johann Kramer (Molotschna Colony), Theodore Kesse (Molotschna Colony), Heinrich Hemsen (Halbstadt), Franz Behm (Molotschna Colony), Sebastian Jacob Binkmann (Heidelberg Colony), Johann Frederick Manberer (Molotschna Colony), Martin Behm (Molotschna Colony), Valentine Fussneker (Prischib Colony), Christian Krieger (Ekaterinoslav), Franz Anton Hecht, Daniel Conrath (Molotschna Colony), Johann Mooser or Moser (Molotschna Colony), Johann Schulze (Molotschna Colony), Nickolaus Troppmann (Molotschna Colony), Dorothy Christian Werthmann (Molotschna Colony), Johann Slejevsky (Prischib Colony), Michael Slejevsky (Prischib Colony), Franz Gertl (Molotschna Colony), Roman Johann Wunsch (Molotschna Colony), Peter Hiebert (Ladekopp), Bernhard Kroeker (Ladekopp), Samuel Kemmer (Molotschna Colony), Andreas Mejer (Hofental Colony), Christian Spielvogel (Molotschna Colony), Albreht Olinsky ( Prischib Colony), Gottlieb Hausen (Molotschna Colony), Ludwig Eberwein (Molotschna Colony), Christopher Mattus (Molotschna Colony), (Molotschna Colony), Derk Tiessen (Halbstadt), Georg Manberger (Molotschna Colony), Bernhard Lehner (Ekaterinoslav), Jacob Neufeld (Kronsgarten Colony), Jacob Neiman (Josephstal Colony), Alexander Zlochensky (Schlagendorf Colony), Konrad Hoffmann (Molotschna Colony), Ludwig Ilgrad (Zuerichtal Colony), Georg Rebel (Zuerichtal Colony), Christian Zorhn (Heilbrunn Colony).
  2. Certificates and passports of E. Zimmermann (1811), F. Kirschbaum (1814), G. Ziend (1814), M. Melhior (1814), M. Ehrenfried (2)*, J. Scheirich (3)*, J. Keze, J. Martin (2)*, J. Marq, J. Bohr, H. Hemsen, F. Behm, J. Schneider, Philip Boehm (2)*, S. J. Binkmann, M. Slejevsky, P. Hiebert, B. Kroeker, V. Fussneker, C. Binkmann, C. Mattus, L. Ilgrad.
  3. A list of the family of C. Binkmann.
  4. The wax stamp that was used as a seal that belonged to the medical officer P. Mejanovsky.

* The number of certificates or passports that were issued to one person.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
This file is damaged by mold.
30 Dec 1815 to 5 Jul 1819. 389 pages. 621 frames.

File 1066. File concerning an incident in which peasants of the landowner Mr. Popov exported hot wine from the Kronsgarten tavern.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee with the Ekaterinoslav Office of Foreign Settlers, the Novomoskovsk Minor Court, the Ekaterinoslav Government and the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Develdeev, concerning hot wine which was exported by the peasants of the landowner Mr. Popov (A. Dyachenko and G. Tatarenko), Paulograd settler G. Chernenko, and the soldier Mr. Chehlaty from the Kronsgarten tavern.
  2. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee with the Ekaterinoslav Office of Foreign Settlers, the Novomoskovsk Minor Court, the Ekaterinoslav Government, and the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Develdeev, regarding the general rules for wine trade to be followed by the Mennonites of Kronsgarten.

These documents are written in Russian.
10 Jun 1816 to 25 Sep 1819. 72 pages. 131 frames.

File 1072. The Ekaterinoslav Government sent to the Guardianship Office an official letter about the necessity to keep order and quiet in the churches.

  1. The order written by the Ekaterinoslav Vice-Governor about the necessity to keep order and quiet in the churches.
  2. Reports written by the Inspector of the Crimean Colonies and the Chortitza District Office about receiving the order from the Guardianship Office.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
16 Mar 1816 to 18 Sep 1816. 5 pages. 12 frames.

File 1073. The acting Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Hauschteck reported to the Guardianship Office about the increased incidence of illness and the need to vaccinate the settlers against smallpox.

  1. A report written by the acting Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Hauschteck to the Guardianship Office.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav Committee of Distribution of Inoculations about the need to send material for vaccinations (two pieces of glass?) to S. X. Contenius.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
5 May 1816 to 15 Jun 1816. 7 pages. 14 frames.

File 1074. File concerning the debt of 10 rubles in silver owed by the Mennonite Mr. Wiens from the Kronsgarten Colony to the Mennonite Dietrich Rempel from the Schoenhorst Colony.

  1. A petition written by the Mennonite Dietrich Rempel to collect a debt of 10 rubles in silver from the Mennonite Wiens.
  2. A report written by the Chortitza District Office to the Guardianship Office on the same subject.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
20 May 1816 to 7 Jul 1816. 4 pages. 10 frames.

File 1077. File concerning important documents regarding the settlement of colonists in South Russia. Correspondence from the Kherson Military Governor, A. F. Lanjeron, with the business manager of the colonies of the Odessa Settlement, Mr. von Lau, regarding the need to send copies of important documents about foreign settlers (Greeks, Bulgarian, Mennonites, and so forth). The following copies of documents were received:

  1. Manifest of the Empress Catherine the Great to recruit settlers to cultivate land. The original was signed by Her Imperial Supreme Majesty's own hand, July 22, 1763.
  2. The decree from the Emperor Alexander the First dated July 24, 1804.
  3. Decrees of the Government Economic Department (1801, 1802).
  4. Determinations of the Government Senate (1802).
  5. The report written by the Minister of Internal Affairs, V. P. Kochubey, to Emperor Alexander the First concerning the settling of foreign colonists in the Russian Empire and about their rights and privileges dated February 20, 1804.
  6. The report written by the Minister of Internal Affairs, V. P. Kochubey, to Emperor Alexander the First concerning the acquisition of lands from private landlords for the use of the colonists dated March 1, 1804.
  7. Opinions written by the State Council about the discharge (dismissal) of the colonists' status dated November 27, 1812.

These documents are written in Russian.
14 Jun 1816 to 28 Sep 1816. 45 pages. 88 frames.

File 1079. File concerning an incident in which prisoners escaped from Mennonites from Kronsweide, namely from Erdman Nikkel and Jacob Balman. The Chortitza District Office accused these Mennonites of carelessness and wrote a report to the Guardianship Office about this.

  1. Report written by the Chortitza District Office to the Guardianship Office about the incident.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav Minor Court regarding the report written by Chortitza District Office.
  3. Erdman Nikkel and Jacob Balman.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
6 Jul 1816 to 1 Dec 1816. 8 pages. 18 frames.

Microfilm No. 949

File 1087. Statistical information for 1816 that was sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Kherson Military Governor.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the acting Kherson Civil Governor about the need to send in statistical information for 1816.
  2. Lists containing information about the amount of the grain that was reserved in village reserve stores in the colonies in the Ekaterinoslav, Taurida, Kherson, and Poltava Provinces for 1816.
  3. Lists containing information about the harvest and sowing of grain in the colonies in the Taurida, Ekaterinoslav, and Kherson Provinces for 1816.
  4. Lists containing information about the number of fruit and mulberry trees in the colonies in the Ekaterinoslav, Taurida, Kherson, and Poltava Provinces for 1816.
  5. Summary list containing information about the state of the Spanish sheep breeding in the colonies in the Ekaterinoslav, Taurida, Kherson, and Poltava Provinces for 1816 (for provinces and districts).
  6. Lists containing information about acquisition of household effects in the Chortitza Colony in the Ekaterinoslav Province, the Swedish, Jewish, and Danzig Colonies in the Kherson Province, the Molotschna Mennonite Colonies, the Prischib Colonies, and the Crimean Colonies in the Taurida Province and colonies in the Chernigov Province for 1816.
  7. Summary lists containing information about the harvest and sowing of grain in the colonies in the Taurida, Ekaterinoslav, and Kherson Provinces for 1816.
  8. Lists containing information about the number of losses of cattle in the colonies in the Ekaterinoslav, Taurida, Kherson, and Poltava Provinces for 1816
  9. Lists containing information about the state of village reserve stores in the colonies of the Odessa Settlement in the Tiraspol, Kherson, and Elizabethgrad Districts (Jews) for 1816.
  10. Statistical lists containing information about the number of births, deaths, and marriages of the foreign settlers for 1816 (in each colony).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
27 Sep 1816 to 8 Jun 1817. 75 pages.

Microfilm No. 798

1817

File 1090. File concerning the foreigner Johann Schroeder who introduced himself as a colonist, but wasn't one, and who was thus brought to the Ekaterinoslav Administration for supplementary examinations.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Novomoskovsk Minor Court, the Ekaterinoslav Government (Administration) regarding the private affair of Johann Schroeder.
  2. Testimonies that were given by Johann Schroeder to the Guardianship Office.

These documents are written in Russian.
5 Apr 1817 to 25 Jul 1817. 10 pages. 21 frames.

File 1098. The Ekaterinoslav State Chamber demanded that the Guardianship Office send information about issuing passports during 1810.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Ekaterinoslav State Chamber about issuing passports during 1810.
  2. Passports that were issued to settlers: the Jews, Mr. Waisten, Mr. Packer, Mr. Griblent, Mr. Vuilf, Mr. Anseilevich, and Mr. Paron; colonists, Mr. Wurmspaher, Mr. Kirschbaum, Mr. Koppe, Mr. Kreker, Mr. Oster, Mr. Henning, and Renata Henning; the Mennonite, Peter Klassen.

These documents are written in Russian
22 Jan 1817 to 16 Feb 1817. 3 pages. 11 frames.

File 1111. File concerning an incident in which Mennonites suffered damage from hussars in the regiment of Prince Oransky. Hussars captured horses belonging to Mennonites, trampled down the grass on the Mennonite lands, and grazed their horses on the lands that were the leasehold property of J. Cornies.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the manager of the office of the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Titular Councilor Shapovalenko, the Taurida Civil Governor, and the Commander of the Third Hussar Division about the incident.
  2. Reports written by the Molotschna District Office on the same subject.
  3. The report written by the Molotschna Mennonites about their complete satisfaction after the investigations were finalized. Michael Regier of Ladekopp is mentioned.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
2 Jun 1816 to 13 Aug 1817. 33 pages. 59 frames.

File 1114. File concerning the collection of a debt of 48 rubles from the Inspector of the Josephstal Colony, College Registrar Kirshner, who borrowed this money from the Mennonite David Schroeder.

  1. A petition written by David Schroeder of Ekaterinoslav to the Guardianship Office to collect the debt from the Inspector of the Josephstal Colony, Mr. Kirshner.
  2. A receipt written by the Inspector of the Josephstal Colony, Mr. Kirshner about receiving the money.
  3. An official letter written by the business manager of the colonies of the Odessa Settlement, Mr. von Lau, about money withheld from the wages of the Inspector of the Josephstal Colony, Mr. Kirshner.

These documents are written in Russian.
18 Jun 1817 to 27 Sep 1817. 5 pages. 12 frames.

File 1123. File concerning the manufacture of cloth in the colonies.

  1. An official letter written by the business manager of the Ekaterinoslav Province and the Chairman of the State Chamber, Mr. Shchekutin, to the Guardianship Office. The Ministry of Internal Affairs made a request for him to send information about the manufacture of cloth in the colonies.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Inspector of the Josephstal Colonies, Mr. Develdeev, and the Chortitza District Office on the same subject.
  3. Information about the absence of the manufacture of cloth in the Josephstal, Rybalsk, and Kronsgarten Colonies.
  4. Information about the manufacture of cloth (with the help of reeds 440 and 500 teeth) in the Jamburg Colony.
  5. Information about the cloth factory in the Chortitza Colony.

These documents are written in both Russian and German. 28 Aug 1817 to 11 Dec 1817. 8 pages. 19 frames.

File 1127. File concerning an incident in which the landlord Mr. Rud from the Alexandrovsk District petitioned to the Emperor to collect a debt of 1000 rubles (in accord with the acknowledgement of debt) from the Mennonite Daniel Eitzen of Schoenwiese.

  1. A petition written by College Registrar Simon Nikolai Rudd to Emperor Alexander the First to collect the money from the Mennonite Daniel Eitzen.
  2. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Chortitza District Office on the same subject and about the necessity to delay collecting the debt.
  3. The decision by the Alexandrovsk Minor Court to nullify bargains and acknowledgements of the debt, which were made without the permission of the local authorities and ratification by the Guardianship Office. Abraham Matthias of the Molotschna Colony, Nathaniel Heide, and Franz Janzen are also mentioned.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
24 Sep 1817 to 9 Jul 1818. 20 pages. 39 frames.

File 1130. File concerning the insufficient supply of straw or weeds for the heating of the Molotschna Inspector's office.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Shapovalenko, and the Molotschna District Office regarding the supply of straw or weeds that were needed for heating the Molotschna Inspector's office. Mennonites and colonists were to provide the Molotschna Inspector's office with straw or weeds for heating.

These documents are written in Russian.
3 Nov 1817 to 13 Nov 1817. 3 pages. 9 frames.

1818

File 1178. The Inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Sieber, reported to the Guardianship Office about the murder of four settlers.

  1. Correspondence from the Guardianship Office with the inspector of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Sieber, the Molotschna District Office, the Duke de Richelieu, the Chief of the Melitopol City Police, the Melitopol District Court, and the Executive Department of the Taurida Province Administration concerning the investigation of the murder of three Mennonites from Rosenort, namely Jacob Berg, Derk Reimer, and Jacob Siemens, as well as the colonist Georg Fetser. Jacob Friesen of Schoenau is also mentioned.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
22 Apr 1818 to 15 Jun 1815. 28 pages. 55 frames.

File 1236. Statistical information regarding the welfare of colonies from May to August, 1818.

  1. Statistical lists containing information about the number of births and deaths, the number of departing colonists and colonists who had recently arrived in the Swedish Colonies (monthly, summary list from May to August), the Molotschna Mennonite and Prischib Colonies (May, June, July, August), the Crimean Colonies (monthly, summary list), the Danzig Colony (May, June, July), the Jewish Colonies (April, May, June, and summary list from May to August), the Smolensk Colonies (monthly, summary list); the Jamburg, Kronsgarten, and Josephstal Colonies (May, June, and summary list from May to August); and Chortitza Mennonites who had recently arrived (May, June, from May to August, 1818). Population data for each village in the Molotschna Colony in April, May, June, and July, 1818 (frames 31, 62, 96, 183, 204).
  2. Summary lists containing information about the welfare of the colonies from May to August, 1818.
  3. Lists containing information about the number of Molotschna colonists and Molotschna Mennonites who didn't have Spanish sheep.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
31 May 1818 to 4 Nov 1818. 151 pages. 251 frames.

File 1236. Statistical information regarding the welfare of colonies from May to August, 1818.

  1. Statistical lists containing information about the number of births and deaths, the number of departing colonists and colonists who had recently arrived in the Swedish Colonies (monthly, summary list from May to August), the Molotschna Mennonite and Prischib Colonies (May, June, July, August), the Crimean Colonies (monthly, summary list), the Danzig Colony (May, June, July), the Jewish Colonies (April, May, June, and summary list from May to August), the Smolensk Colonies (monthly, summary list); the Jamburg, Kronsgarten, and Josephstal Colonies (May, June, and summary list from May to August); and Chortitza Mennonites who had recently arrived (May, June, from May to August, 1818). Population data for each village in the Molotschna Colony in April, May, June, and July, 1818 (frames 31, 62, 96, 183, 204).
  2. Summary lists containing information about the welfare of the colonies from May to August, 1818.
  3. Lists containing information about the number of Molotschna colonists and Molotschna Mennonites who didn't have Spanish sheep.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
31 May 1818 to 4 Nov 1818. 151 pages. 251 frames.

Microfilm No. 949

1819

File 1243. File concerning a fire that happened in the Radichev Hutterite Colony and concerning the establishment of the Radichev District Office.
  1. A report from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office to the Guardianship Committee about a fire that happened in the Radichev Hutterite Colony.
  2. Letters from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office, the Chief Guardian Mr. Inzov, the Radichev Hutterite Brotherhood, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the New Russia Military Governor, and the Chernigov Episcopals about the conflict between Hutterites from the Radichev Hutterite Brotherhood and parishioners of the Greco-Russian Church from the village of Radichev. A matter of argument was the site of a new building of the Greco-Russian Church, the former building having burned down in the fire.

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
17 Jun 1819 to 5 Jul 1819. 52 pages.

File 1331. File concerning passports of colonists who arrived from abroad in 1819. Passports of Prussian colonists who arrived in Ekaterinoslav and Odessa who came from Danzig and Marienwerder; family members are indicated; discharge-tickets, certificates, etc. Places where colonists were born are indicated in parenthesis.

  1. Passports of Michael Westphal (native of Stuba, Elbing), Andreas Heinrich (Baerwalde), Johann Martin Deutschmann (Zinder), Michael Breitfeld (Tiegenhoff), Michael Vogelsang (Rueckenau), Gottlieb Koch (Stuba, Elbing), Georg Behrend (Alt Dollstädt), Martin Burau (Thorn), Georg Goldber (Wolfsdorf, Elbing), Gottlieb Fröse (Marienburg), Michael Weinhold (Fuerstenwerder), Nicolaus Dodenhöft (Bohnhoff, Stuhm), Mathias Zelinsky (Marienburg), Michael Jochim (Stuba, Elbing), Christian Lange (Gross Brodsende), Simon Schukowsky (Thorn), Martin Ulbert (Wolfsdorf, Elbing), Mathias Bojarski (Truppendorff), Johann Reinholdt (Tiegenhoff), Johann Rose (Schoeneberg), Johann Jacob Kohn (Tiegenhof), Martin Schoeneberg (Rothebude), Solomon Albrecht (Tiegenhagen), Michael Just (Barenhof), Jacob Roglowsky (Marienburg), Jacob Geth (Hakendorf, Elbing), Franz Quiring (Stobbendorf), Gottlieb Buttner (Ellerwalde, Elbing), Daniel Kirsch (Pordenau), Johann Zarecki (Gross Lichtenau), Valentin Tabbert (Stobbendorf), Jacob Jeromin (Gross Lichtenau), Michael Willm (Klein Lichtenau), Gottlieb Klein (Gross Mausdorf), Johann Doelffs (Neulescher), Andreas Bledzinsky (Mielenz), Georg Brodde (Rothebude), Friedrich Birt (Porssau), Georg Doering (Schoenbaum), Peter Rehberg (Schoenbaum), Michael Stephanowsky (Gross Lichtenau), Johann Groening (Schadwalde), Mathias Biermann (Brodsack), Michael Biermann (Tannsee), Johann Georg Schumacher, Jacob Waasman (Stolzenkrug, Elbing), Jacob Fiedler (Prangenau), Jacob Kalinowsky (Mierau, Marienburg), Peter Kalinowsky (Gnojau, Marienburg), Anton Gawrunsky (Dirschau), Peter Klein (Neumuensterberg), Georg Christian Haase (Jankendorf), Jacob Fast (Fuerstenau, Elbing), Peter Goldschmidt (Tiegenhof), Andreas Kedrowsky (Gross Lichtenau), Johann Michael Gaertner (Schoeneberg), Philipp Meyer, Gottlieb Falkowsky (Lindenau), Andreas Schulkowsky (Austria), Friedrich Meyer (Einlage, Elbing), Michael Schmidt (Lupushorst, Elbing), Martin Willed (Lupushorst, Elbing), Friedrich Thater (Tiege), Valentin Schmit, Jacob Borkowsky (Schoenau), Johann Schroeder (Neuteicherwalde), Georg Vogt, Adam Piernicky (Jarischau), Franz Liedtke (Bonern), Heinrich Doerk (Wolfsdorf, Elbing), Kasimir Eggert (Lupushorst, Elbing), Johann Ratzlaff (Krebsfelde, Elbing), Gottfried Loschinsky (Einlage, Elbing), Jacob Mitlewsky (Braunswalde), Johann Wilhelm Papenfoth (Nobel, Danzig), Christoph Stafast (Neulanghorst), Ephraim Bustfleisch (Marienau), Peter Bustfleisch (Fuerstenau), Christoph Schrein (Peschkendorf bei Saulfen), Isebrand Gyck (Lakendorf, Elbing), Georg Kanikowsky (Neulanghorst, Elbing), Johann Haase (Tiege), Peter Elgenstein (Willemberg bei Marienburg), Johann Liedtke (Wengelwalde), Anton Hahn (Ladekopp), Gottlieb Buettner (Lupushorst, Elbing), Johann Gottlieb Klatt (Kaesemark), Paul Strauss (Neumuensterberg), Andreas Heidelin (Hamelsprim), Michael Fast (Neulanghorst), Stephan Friedrich (Elbing), Christoph Fischer (Eschenhorst), Jacob Wach (Ladekopp), Peter Still (Schoensee), Michael Grammat (Kaisemark), Solomon Bliewernitz (Dammfelde), Christian Rodomsky (Elbing), Johann Krey (Pietzkendorf), Michael Grabowsky (Lindenau), Gottfried Fuchs (Elbing), Samuel Preuss (Elbing), Jacob Engler (Gross Mausdorf), Jacob Koslowsky (Gross Lesewitz), Johann Buchmakowsky (Elbing), Joseph Korell (Frankreich), Johann Jahn (Stuba, Elbing), Johann Unger (Snie), Jacob Koslowsky (Truppendorf), David Hein (Lakendorf, Elbing), Johann Szigowsky (Schoneck), Jacob Pawella (Schoneck), Gottlieb Golley and David Golley (Schoneck), Lorenz Lubiewsky (Rokozin), Mathias Hollstein (Schoneck), Friedrich Sage (Rosenkranz, Stuhm), Michael Klemusch (Halbstadt), Paul Bendig (Katznase), Johann Rutkowsky (Montau), Andreas Pitkowsky (Neutrisch), Peter Schwohl (Moesland, Mewe), Michael Klassen (Caldowe), Johann Blum (Gross Mausdorf), Christian Klassen (Hakendorf), Johann Witkowsky (Kukuck), Martin Smolsky (Kekelhoff), Christian Stolpe (Kriefkohl), Jacob Tabert (Neuteicherwalde), Johann Majewsky (Neumoesland), Andreas Witt (Neuteicherwalde), Nathaniel Behnke (Elbing), Jacob Wilwert (Neuhof), Peter Prill (Marienau), Johann Rogge (Schoeneberg), Johann Steblau (Schoeneberg), Johann Krause (Koselitzer, Marienburg), Martin Wohlgemuth (Tiegenhoff), Gottfried Kaiser (Krebsfelde, Elbing), Jacob Rehberg (Krebsfelde, Elbing), Johann Gromoth (Posilge, Stuhm), Peter Just (Willenberg), Solomon Witkowsky (Neuteicherwalde), Simon Wodzack (Katznase), Wilhelm Cwilina (Elbing), Jacob Sauerin (Einlage, Elbing), Benjamin Jahn (Stuba, Elbing), Johann Dombrowsky (Klein Lichtenau), Christian Krause (Posilge, Stuhm), Johann Budweg (Posilge, Stuhm), Johann Steinfeld (Tiegenort), Martin Schroeder (Lecklau), Johann Freymann (Lakendorf, Elbing), Jacob Rutkowsky (Elbing), Anton Sawatsky (Kuxen), Michael Rups (Neudorf), Jacob Rupson (Neudorf, Elbing), Paul Xanke (Bohnhoff, Stuhm), Martin Beuge (Schwarzenhoff, Schwerin-Meckelburg), Nathanael Kopke (Broske), Jahann Hahn (Tiegenort), Martin Wichman (Neuteicherwalde), Mathias Pawlowsky (Posige, Stuhm), Franz Rehband (Sterbenik), Michael Witt (Ladekopp), Jacob Klassen (Fuerstenau, Elbing), Daniel Baws (Kuksen), Peter Farber (Rehoff, Stuhm), Cornelius Becker (Benhoff, Stuhm), Georg Rohr (Mierau), Michael Grunsky (Thiergardt), Martin Trepnauer (Mierau), David Kaage (Jungfer, Elbing), Jacob Preuss (Jungfer).
  2. Cordon certificate of Michael Fuchs (Walenberg, Austria).
  3. Certificates for movement to Molotschna given to: Abraham Siebert, Gottlieb Schroeder, Johann Klass, Franz Harder, Johann Kloschinsky, Andreas Zalessky, Joseph Goletz, Christian Kuban, Johann Trey, Johann Kasper, Andreas Schukhowsky, Absalon Orend, Martin Nickel, Gottlieb Schwedich, Michael Pschikowsky, Johann Dombrowsky.

These documents are written in Russian, German, and Polish.
This file has been damaged by mold.
1819. 511 pages.

File 1345a. File concerning the desire of the Mennonites Johann Nickel and Johann Penner who were registered in the village of Slobodka in the Ostrog District in the Volhynia Province to resettle in the Ekaterinoslav Province.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Office, the Ekaterinoslav State Chamber, the Ekaterinoslav District Exchequer, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the resettlement of the Mennonites Johann Nickel and Johann Penner.
  2. A list of the family of Johann Nickel. (They moved to Nieder Chortitza).
  3. A list of the family of Johann Penner. (They moved to Kronsthal).
  4. Passports of the Mennonites Johann Nickel and Johann Penner for a trip to the Ekaterinoslav Province.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
17 Jul 1819 to 20 Feb 1823. 67 pages.

1820

File 1356. File concerning an issue between Mennonites and Nogai people concerning lands in the Melitopol District.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office, the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the Taurida Civil Governor A. Baranov regarding the point of issue. There is information about the origin of the discord and about the Duke de Richelieu and his followers, who participated in the solution this problem beginning in 1807.
  2. A letter from Samuel X. Kontenius to the Inspector Mr. Ikskul (1807).
  3. A report written by the Inspector Mr. Ikskul (1807).
  4. A petition written by the Count de Meson (1808).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
This file has been damaged by mold.
19 May 1820 to 16 Aug 1820. 29 pages.

File 1396. File concerning the Radichev Hutterite Catharina, the widow of Andreas Waldner, who was willing to leave to go to Poland.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the New Russia Guardianship Committee of Foreign Settlers about Catharina Waldner who was willing to resettle to the Volhynia Province; information about her estate and debts.

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
28 Sept 1820 to 1 Nov 1829. 13 pages.

File 1397. File concerning the construction of new sheepfolds as communal property of the colonists in the Odessa Colonies.

  1. Official correspondence concerning the construction of new sheepfolds as communal property of the colonists in Gross Liebental, Glueckstal, and Elsass.
  2. Official correspondence about the architect Mr. Frapoli who was to be sent to the Odessa Colonies to compile estimates; about the architect E. Solodovnikov.
  3. A letter from Samuel X. Kontenius to General I. N. Inzov.
  4. Drawing of frontage and plan for the sheepfold for Gross Liebental (1822).
  5. Drawing of frontage and plan for the sheepfold that was built in the Molotschna Mennonite enclave at the Kurudzhuyunashly River (1822).
  6. Estimate of expenditures under construction of the sheepfold in Gross Liebental.

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
2 Feb 1820 to 20 Nov 1825. 69 pages.

File 1400. File concerning the Josephstal enclave public funds debit and credit. Official correspondence concerning:

  1. Josephstal parsonage repair.
  2. Postponement in paying off sums borrowed by Josephstal and Rybalsk colonists.
  3. Borrowing of public funds for a provision and fodder store.
  4. Construction of a new ferry at the Kilchen River.
  5. Various payments to hired people.
  6. A petition from the Kronsgarten community to allot funds for timber purchased.
  7. Registers of incomes and expenses of the public monies from the Jamburg District Office for December 1826, for January to December, 1827, and for 1827.
  8. Estimates on Josephstal parsonage repair and Jamburg village office erection.
  9. Information about credit and debit of the Josephstal District communities from 1820 to 1832.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
8 Jun 1820 to 10 Dec 1831. 382 pages.

File 1453. File concerning an inheritance belonging to the infant children of the Mennonite Franz Cornelius.

  1. Correspondence concerning an inheritance from Prussia inherited by Franz Cornelius' children to be received by their tutors Jacob Wiens and Jacob Friesen in Rosenort.

These documents are written in both Russian and French.
11 Oct 1821 to 18 Nov 1822. 11 pages.

1821

File 1480. File concerning about a prohibition given to the Molotschna Pastor Mr. Zeling to marry the colonists without Guardianship Office's permission since he had married Cornelius Willms and Mr. Schpering's widow.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the New Russia Guardianship Committee of Foreign Settlers about negligent colonists of the Molotschna Colonist District, namely G. Schpering (who died in 1816) and Cornelius Willms (who arrived from Prussia in 1818); about a prohibition given to the Molotschna Pastor Mr. Zeling to marry the colonists without Guardianship Office's permission. (He had married Cornelius Willms and the widow of Mr. Schpering).
  2. An explanation written by C. Willms.

These documents are written in Russian.
8 Aug 1821 to 1 Dec 1821. 16 pages.

File 1526. File concerning appointments and resignations of the inspectors of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee about appointments and resignations of the inspectors of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.
    Service records of the inspectors of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.
    Instructions for the inspectors.
  2. Lists containing information about the annual salaries of the pastors and inspectors that were paid in the New Russia Settlements from 1823 to 1827.
  3. A report from the Berdjansk District Office about the salary of the manager Mr. Kirshner that was paid from the public monies.
  4. A petition from the Mayor of Kronsgarten D. Neufeld and his assistants Jacob Dyck and Kohnert Klass of Kronsgarten concerning joint management with the Josephstal Colonies.
  5. Certificates written by colonists from the Jewish Colonies. There are lists of the colonists who did not make claims on the former inspector Mr. Chicherin.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
3 Jun 1821 to 6 Mar 1828. 444 pages.

File 1528. File concerning the resettlement of Mennonites from the Chortitza Colony to the Molotschna Colony.

  1. Correspondence concerning the resettlement of Mennonites from the Chortitza Colony to the Molotschna Colony (among the 204 families that arrived in 1819).
  2. A list of resettled Mennonites.
  3. A list of 177 Mennonite families who arrived in the Chortitza and Molotschna Colonies in 1819; property brought, place of settlement, numbers of males and females indicated.
  4. A list of 36 newly arrived Mennonite families registered in Chortitza but who moved to the Molotschna Colony.

These documents are written in Russian.
8 Jan 1821 to 25 Jan 1825. 13 pages.

1822

File 1562. File concerning the transfer of Molotschna colonists to help settlers from Württemberg.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee concerning the transfer of the Molotschna colonists Heinrich Schulz and Abraham Janzen to help settlers from Württemberg. The newly arrived settlers did not know both the Russian and Nogai languages and their elder, Mr. Wield, asked to help them. Correspondence concerning the transfer of Jacob Kneib from Friedrichsfeld to help settlers who arrived from Baden in Russia in 1824. Jacob Kneib wished to help them, because they had invited him.
  2. An authorization for Molotschna colonists Heinrich Schulz and Abraham Janzen as well as Jacob Kneib from Friedrichsfeld (Molotschna Colonists District) to resettle.

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
17 Feb 1822 to 7 Nov 1825. 11 pages.

File 1566. File concerning Prussian emigrant Johann Krause who was willing to leave for abroad. He was single, 89 years old, had arrived in 1819 to Danzig, and had resettled to Molotschna in 1820.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee concerning a request from Johann Krause to move to Prussia.
  2. An authorization from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office allowing Johann Krause to move to Prussia.

These documents are written in Russian.
14 Mar 1822 to 10 May 1823. 11 pages.

File 1568. File concerning the supply needed by the Molotschna colonists for grain from the reserve store. 1502 people were supplied with grain.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee regarding the need to help the Molotschna colonists.

These documents are written in Russian.
10 Mar 1822 to 30 May 1822. 5 pages.

File 1580. File concerning the reattachment of the Mennonite Mr. Banman from Kronsgarten (Chortitza) to Schoeneberg (Ekaterinoslav).

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee regarding the reattachment of the Mennonite Heinrich Banman with his family from Kronsgarten (Chortitza) to Schoeneberg (Ekaterinoslav).

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
7 Nov 1822 to 21 Dec 1822. 5 pages.

File 1596. File concerning providing lodging to a deserter, Mr. Chuprinenko, by Chortitza Mennonites, namely Dietrich Thiessen, Jacob Thiessen, and Jacob Friesen.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship
    Committee about the testimonies of these Mennonites. They had provided housing for a
    deserter, Tihon Chuprinenko.

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
20 Mar 1822 to 24 Jan 1823. 13 pages.

File 1599. File concerning miscellaneous correspondence about accidents (fires, storms, hail, locusts, deaths of colonists…) in the colonies.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee about accidents in the colonies.
  2. Deceased colonists: Johann Scherr (Friedrichstal), Adam Bielman (Speyer), Christina Sneider (Neu-Nassau), Ivan Burchat (Kronsgarten), Anthon Vogel (Speyer), Martin Kont (Waldorf), Johann Knoll (Culm), Dionisius Lichtenberg (newcomer).

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
10 Jun 1822 to 24 Nov 1822; 31 Jul 1823. 111 pages. (There are only 71 preserved pages).

1824

File 1649. File concerning the establishment of the Sheep-Breeding Committee in Molotschna Mennonite district.

  1. Offers from Samuel. X. Kontenius about the necessity to establish a committee for quality management of sheep-breeding for both communal property and individual property of the colonists in the Molotschna Mennonite District.
  2. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee on the same subject.
  3. Information about the establishment of the Sheep-Breeding Committee in the Molotschna Mennonite District in 1824; a list of the members of this Committee;
  4. Later two committees were established in the Molotschna Mennonite District and in the Chortitza District. Committees had charge of sheep breeding and improving the Spanish sheep breeding in the colonies. Special books were bought for these tasks.

These documents are written in Russian.
25 Jan 1824 to 26 Aug 1824. 12 pages.

File 1678. File concerning attaching Jacob Loewen and Margaretha Neufeld to colonists. He came to the Molotschna Colony village of Liebenau to visit relatives and then asked for permission to be enrolled at Liebenau to Mennonite Peter Dyck's family. They were admitted this once.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee concerning attaching Jacob Loewen and Margaretha Neufeld to colonists.
  2. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee about the permit (authorization) from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to Jacob Loewen and Margaretha Neufeld to be enrolled at Liebenau to Mennonite Peter Dyck's family. They were admitted this once
  3. Correspondence from the Ministry of Internal Affairs with Guardianship Committee about the prohibition to enroll foreign visitors.

These documents are written in Russian.
25 Jul 1824 to 21 Nov 1825. 20 pages.

File 1692. File concerning sheep breeding in the Ekaterinoslav settlements.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee concerning sheep breeding in the Ekaterinoslav settlements; about the sale of fleece to the Mennonite Mr. Schmidt.

These documents are written in Russian.
20 Oct 1824 to 26 May 1825. 10 pages.

File 1741. File concerning taking wine on lease by the merchant Mr. Troyanovsky in the Chortitza Mennonite District until 10 February 1827.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee about taking wine on lease by the merchant Mr. Troyanovsky in the Chortitza Colonies; correspondence about a contract, which was made with the merchant Joseph Troyanovsky from Ekaterinoslav.

These documents are written in Russian.
16 Dec 1824 to 3 Feb 1825. 10 pages.

File 1750. Statistical information about different duties of colonists for 1824.

  1. Lists of colonies that were supervised by the Odessa Guardianship Office and the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office. There is information about lands that belonged to these colonies, about their taxes and state debts for 1824.
  2. Lists from the colonies of the Odessa Settlement and Ekaterinoslav Settlement containing information about the number of families, their lands, taxes, and debts.
  3. Correspondence from the Ministry of Finances with the New Russia Guardianship Committee of Foreign Settlers on the same subject.

These documents are written in Russian.
23 May 1824 to 29 Jul 1825. 116 pages.

File 1752. Statistical information about public monies in the colonies for 1824.

  1. Registers of incomes and expenses of the public monies (semi-annual public funds financial reports) from Odessa, Ekaterinoslav, and Bessarabian settlements for 1824.

These documents are written in Russian.
31 Jul 1824 to 27 Jun 1825. 66 pages.

File 1768. File concerning information about checking the boundaries of the Timonovskaya woodland belonging to the Radichev Hutterite Brotherhood.

  1. A report from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office to the Guardianship Committee about checking the boundaries of a woodland belonging to Radichev Hutterite Brotherhood.

These documents are written in Russian.
8 Jan 1824. 2 pages.

File 1774. File concerning the resolution to grant allowances (money and grain) to Mennonites and colonists from the Ekaterinoslav Settlement and the Odessa Settlement, who needed grain for food and spring sowing.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee with the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office and the Odessa Guardianship Office about the need to support the colonists and Mennonites who suffered from drought, locust plagues, and failure of crops in the colonies of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement and Odessa Settlement.
  2. A list containing information about the number of cattle deaths in the colonies of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement and Odessa Settlement from 1 September 1824 to1 May 1825.

These documents are written in Russian.
This file is missing the first 53 pages.
26 Feb 1825 to 1 Sep 1833. 137 pages.

File 1783. File concerning funds paid by Ekaterinoslav settlement colonists as duties.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee with the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office concerning funds paid by Ekaterinoslav settlement colonists as duties.
  2. A report from the Chortitza District Office with a petition to postpone payment of taxes because of crop failure (locust devastated fields) and because a heavy gale demolished houses of the colonists.
  3. A list from Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office about the tax money, which was sent to the District Exchequer during 1824.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
18 Dec 1823 to 24 Mar 1825. 189 pages.

File 1789. File concerning financial reports from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office of Foreign Settlers for 1824.

  1. Monthly financial reports from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office containing registers of incomes and expenses of the public monies and orphans funds for 1824.

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
19 Feb 1824 to 31 Jan 1825. 195 pages.

Microfilm No. 950

1825

File 1834. About the investigation of four murders. The Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office reported about the disappearance of four Mennonites from Molotschna, namely Jacob Dick, Johann Willems, Peter Bauer, and Johann Wiens. They went to Rovno in the Poltava District to sell fleece and did not return home.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee with the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Poltava Civil Governor, and the Taurida Criminal Investigation Department concerning the investigation of the murder and robbery of four Mennonites from Molotschna, namely Jacob Dick, Johann Willems, Peter Bauer, and Johann Wiens.

These documents are written in Russian.
4 Aug 1825 to 23 Nov 1826. 109 pages.

File 1849. File concerning the visit of the Emperor in the Molotschna Mennonite Colonies, when he went from Taganrog to the Crimea.

  1. A report from a member of the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office, Mr. Fadeev, to the New Russia Guardianship Committee about the visit of the Emperor in the Molotschna Mennonite Colonies, when he went from Taganrog to the Crimea.
  2. A report from to the New Russia Guardianship Committee to the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the same subject.

These documents are written in Russian.
26 Oct 1825 to 19 Nov 1825. 4 pages.

1826

File 1874. File concerning the inheritances of colonists of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement, 1826-1829.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the St. Petersburg Military Governor, Mr. Kutuzov, about inheritances of Ekaterinoslav Settlement colonists:
  2. Authorizations that were given to the colonists for receiving inheritances.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
11 Jan 1826 to 4 Oct 1829. 98 pages.

File 1892. File concerning the Ekaterinoslav Mennonites David Schroeder (Kronsgarten) and Wilhelm Martens (Halbstadt) who were enrolled in the Gostinny Merchants of the Third Guild, but they reserved their rights and duties as colonists.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee with the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office about the enrollment of the Mennonites David Schroeder (Kronsgarten) and Wilhelm Martens (Halbstadt) in the Gostinny Merchants of the Third Guild.
  2. Information about permission to reserve colonists' status (in accordance with "Opinions written by the State Council about the discharge (dismissal) of the colonists' status dated November 27, 1812"). Colonists can be enrolled to another social status, but if they wished to reserve colonists ' rights they must be to fulfill the duties of colonists.

These documents are written in Russian.
11 Jun 1826 to 2 Dec 1826. 5 pages.
Historical note added by Tatyana Makarenko:

In Russia merchants were combined into three guilds in 1721 during the reign of Peter I. In 1807 during the reign of Alexander I merchants of the 1st Guild had to have financial capital between 20,000 and 50,000 rubles; merchants of the 2nd Guild - between 8000 and 20,000 rubles; merchants of the 3rd Guild - up to 8000 rubles. In 1861 the 3rd Guild was discontinued and merchants were combined into two guilds. Mr. Schroeder and Mr. Martens were enrolled in "Gostinny" Merchants so they did not have to pay certain taxes. In Russia during former times if you wished to make purchases you had to go to the Gostinny Dvor, or Bazaar, which consisted of long, symmetrical rows of stores, with a colonnade in front. Gostinny Dvor literally means the Guests' Court (or Yard). The Gosti (a word that has the same etymological origin as the English word "guests") were originally the merchants who traded with other towns or other countries.

File 1915. About the Mennonite Dietrich Klassen who arrived from Damfeld of the Marienburg District (Prussia) to meet his relatives in 1825. However, he wished to stay after that with his sister Helena in the Molotschna Colony.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee with the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office concerning the Mennonite Dietrich Klassen.
  2. Information about permission to stay in the Molotschna Colony that was given by the Prussian Government and the New Russia Guardianship Committee to the Mennonite Dietrich Klassen.
  3. Certificate of leave for the Mennonite Dietrich Klassen (copy).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
7 Dec 1826 to 11 Mar 1827. 8 pages.

1827

File 2217. Financial statements from the Ekaterinoslav and Odessa Guardianship Offices for 1826.

  1. Financial statements containing information about monies paid by the colonists from the Ekaterinoslav and Odessa Settlements as duties for 1826. Lists of duties are indicated.

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
30 Jun 1827. 12 pages.

1828

File 2231. About sheep breeding in the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office, the Guardianship Committee, and the Chief Guardian Mr. Inzov about sending 300 pood (1 pood =16.38 kg) of wool from Spanish Merino sheep to St. Petersburg for sale in England. Buyers for the wool were not found in Russia.

These documents are written in Russian.
3 Jul 1828 to 17 Jul 1828. 3 pages.

File 2250. File concerning an appearance of locusts on the colonists' lands.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav, Odessa, and Bessarabian Guardianship Offices, the Kherson Civil Governor, Mr. Mogilevsky, concerning measures for the extermination of locusts.
  2. Information about an appearance of locusts in the colonies of the Molotschna Mennonite and Chortitza Districts, and in Kandel, Kubanka, Kronenthal (Crimea).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
23 Dec 1827 to 26 Oct 1828. 65 pages.

File 2252. File concerning an incident in which the 46 Egersky Regiment had rented 36 wagons (a pair of horses was with each wagon) from the Chortitza Mennonites without a payment for this. The Lieutenant, Mr. Simonovsky, had written a receipt, and the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office reported to the New Russia Guardianship Committee about this.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee about reckoning this debt of the Regiment to the Chortitza Mennonites in payment of Mennonite state taxes.

These documents are written in Russian.
16 Dec 1827 to 28 Jan 1828. 3 pages.

File 2264. File concerning the colonists and Mennonites who returned from abroad to their colonies after getting their inheritance.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav and Odessa Guardianship Offices with the Guardianship Committee concerning the colonists and Mennonites who returned from abroad to their colonies after getting the inheritance. Names of the colonists and Mennonites are the following: Johann Sauter who returned to Friedrichsthal; Andreas Fortmeier and Anton Bukenmeier who returned to Mannheim; Josef El - to Baden; Michael Trester - to Hoffnungstal; Johann and Christian Close - to Leipzig; Johann Gauche - to Weinau.
  2. Correspondence is concerning the colonists who went from their colonies to get the inheritance. Names of the colonists are the following: Peter Jeger went from Landau; Franz Fierier - from Alexanderhilf; Jacob Jauch and Jacob Kuhn - from Friedenthal; Lou Frison - from Selz; Stephan Frison, Frederic Bagman, and Mateas Fisher - from Baden; Michael Schweitser - from Strassburg; Jacob Hafner - from Hoffnungstal; Wilhelm Faller - from Kassel.
  3. Information about the Mennonite Andreas Block who went to Prussia.

These documents are written in Russian.
14 Jan 1828 to 3 Jul 1829. 18 pages.

File 2328. The Chief Guardian of the Colonists of the South Russia Region offered to send a deputy from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office to the Taurida Administration to investigate the criminal case about the theft of horses from the Molotschna Mennonites by Nogai men, namely Mature Murza and Zachary Ilyasov.

  1. Correspondence from the Chief Guardian, the Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office, the Taurida Administration concerning the investigation the theft of horses.

These documents are written in Russian.
15 Jun 1828 to 27 Jul 1828. 11 pages.

File 2329. The Chief Guardian of the Colonists of the South Russia Region offered to examine a complaint from the Mennonite Abraham Lemke about disagreement with his wife Judith nee Janzen.

  1. Correspondence from the Department of State Economy (the Ministry of Internal Affairs), the Chief Guardian, the Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office, the Molotschna Mennonite District Office concerning a disagreement between Mr. and Mrs. Lemke. This correspondence contains information about decision to expel Abraham Lemke (Schoenau) together with his 3 children (from his first marriage) abroad, and about the transfer his estate to the Mennonite Jacob Schellenberg from Tiegenhagen.
  2. Material of the case about disagreement Abraham Lemke in married life with his wife Judith. There is information about the excommunication of Abraham Lemke.
  3. Testimonies from the Mennonite Karl Munch (Schoenau) and the colonists from Alt- Nassau, namely Heinrich Geiger and Wilhelm Rausch.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
7 Jun 1828 to 7 Feb 1830. 178 pages.

File 2362. The Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office reported about the theft of money from Klaas Wiens of Kronsgarten by the Hutterite Johann Wallman from the Radichev Hutterite Brotherhood.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee about the theft of money from Klaas Wiens of Kronsgarten by the Hutterite Johann Wallman from the Radichev Hutterite Brotherhood in 1827. This correspondence contains information about the decision to whip everyone who was involved in this theft.
  2. Information about execution of punishment.

These documents are written in Russian.
7 Sep 1828 to 16 Dec 1829. 10 pages.

File 2388. The Emperor of Russia granted the New Russia colonists the privilege of exemption from state taxes until 1831.

  1. Correspondence from the Department of State Economy (the Ministry of Internal Affairs), the Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav and the Odessa Guardianship Offices concerning exemption for the New Russia colonists from state taxes until 1831 (because of locusts in 1824).
  2. Lists of the number of the government loans both paid and still remaining by Mennonites and other colonists.
  3. Lists of the number of the colonies, families, men (from the Ekaterinoslav Settlement and the Ekaterinoslav, Kherson, and Taurien Provinces) for what remained of the debts to the government until 1831.

These documents are written in Russian.
11 Jun 1828 to 3 May 1829. 56 pages.

File 2390. File concerning financial reports from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office of Foreign Settlers about the orphans' money.

  1. Lists of the orphans' money of the colonists, Mennonites, and Jews for the first six months in 1828.

These documents are written in Russian.
7 Aug 1828. 2 pages.

File 2392. Statistical information about public monies in the colonies of New Russia for 1828.

  1. Registers of incomes and expenses of the public monies (semi-annual public funds financial reports) from the Odessa, Ekaterinoslav, and Bessarabia Settlements for 1828.
  2. A summary register of incomes and expenses of the public monies in the colonies of New Russia for 1828.

These documents are written in Russian
30 Jun 1828 to 1 Mar 1829. 86 pages.

File 2393. File concerning financial statements from the Ekaterinoslav and Odessa Guardianship Offices for 1827 and for 1828.

  1. Financial statements containing information about funds paid by Ekaterinoslav and Odessa Settlement colonists as duties for 1827 and for 1828.

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
9 October 1828. 17 pages.

1829

File 2402. File concerning the inheritances of the colonists and Mennonites in the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office about inheritances of Ekaterinoslav Settlement colonists. Mennonites who received an inheritance in West Prussia were the following:

    Jacob Esau (Altonau); infant children Johann and Margaretha Woelk (Molotschna Mennonite District), their tutors Hermann Wiens and Dirk Warkentin; Margaretha Klassen, nee Epp, and her husband Bernhard Klassen (Pordenau); Peter, Maria, Margaretha, and Elizabeth Fast (Muntau); Maria Katherine Kubler nee Leist (Neusatz); Margaretha Braun nee Suckau and her husband Gerhard Braun (Chortitza); Christian Janzen (Fuerstenwerder); Agnate Toews nee Siemens and her husband Julius Toews (Rosenthal); Peter Siemens (Rosenthal); infant children Wilhelm, Helena, Johanna, Margaretha, and Katherine Siemens, their tutors Isaak Toews and Peter Siemens (Rosenthal); Helena Harder nee Penner and her husband Gerhard Harder (Halbstadt); Peter Reimer (Tiegerweide); Aron Peters and tutors of his daughter Helena, Jacob De Fehr and Jacob Bergen (Neuendorf, Chortitza District); Jacob Schenke (Tiegerweide); heirs of Klassen (Petershagen); Helena Koop and her husband Jacob Kempfer (Muntau); Johann and Kornelius Koop, Katherine Koop and her husband Jacob Berg (Muntau); Abraham, Gerhard, Heinrich, Dietrich, and Andreas Koop; Heinrich Koop, Jr. (Muntau); Gerhard, Klaus, Kornelius, and Gerhard Fast, Katherine Fast with husband Isaak Fast, tutors of maid Agnate Fast and Johann Fast (Molotschna Mennonite District); Maria Klassen nee Epp and her husband Jacob Klassen (Kronsgarten); Wilhelm and Johann Klassen (Kronsgarten); Isaak Wall (Tiegenhagen); Abraham Wall (Pordenau); Abraham Funk (Schardau); tutors of the infant children Heinrich and Jacob Quiring (Schardau); Helena Voth nee Dirks and her husband Kornelius Voth; Franz Wiens and his wife (Halbstadt); Regina Regier nee Kuntz and her husband Johann Regier (Schoensee); Helena Thiessen nee Rempel and her husband Abraham Thiessen (Ladekopp); Elizabeth Engbrecht nee Reissue and her husband Dietrich Engbrecht (Gnadenheim); Martin Thiessen (Pordenau); Johann Plett (Blumstein); Johann Nickel (Neukirch); Katherine Penner nee Goertz and her husband Johann Penner (Pastwa); Anna Kroeker and her husband Franz Kroeker (Muensterberg); Peter Wieler (Nieder Chortitza); Franz Lammert (Elisabetthal); Maria Harder nee Martens and her husband Jacob Harder (Neukirch); Heinrich Martens (Litchfelde); Johann Quapp and his wife (Schoenhorst).
  2. Information about the Mennonites from the village of Ohrloff, namely Johann and Peter Cornies with their wives, Dirk Boldt, tutors of the infant children Katherine, Margaretha, and Jacob Klassen, who had been summoned for decision about their inheritance.
  3. Information about the Mennonite Jacob Fast from Fuerstenwerder.
  4. Information about sending the death certificate of the infant Anna Klassen to tutors in West Prussia.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
4 Jan 1829 to 6 Feb 1831. 187 pages.

File 2407. Statistical information regarding the welfare of the colonies dependent on the Bessarabia, Ekaterinoslav*, Odessa Guardianship Offices, and the Guardian of the Zadunaisky Settlers for 1828.

  1. Statistical lists containing information about the number of births, deaths, and marriages of the foreign settlers in the colonies of the Bessarabia, Ekaterinoslav, and Odessa Settlements and in the colonies of the Prut, Kagul, Ismail, and Budjak Districts.
  2. Statistical lists containing information about the harvest and sowing of grain in the same colonies.
  3. Statistical list containing information about the number of fruit, mulberry trees, and vines in the colonies.
  4. Summary lists containing information about the welfare of the colonies, and about the number of the colonists, implements, and artisans.
  5. Statistical list containing information about the acquisition of household effects in the colonies.
  6. Statistical lists containing information about the number of cattle and the number cattle deaths in the colonies.
  7. Statistical lists containing information about the state of village reserve stores in the colonies.
  8. Statistical lists containing information about estates that were transferred from one Mennonite or colonist to another person during 1828.
  9. Review of the state of the colonies dependent upon the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office for 1828 and for 1829.
  10. Statistical lists containing information about the Sarata Colony and the Schabo Colony for 1828 and for 1828.

*- Colonies dependent on the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office are the following: 16 Chortitza Mennonite villages, Jamburg (Ekaterinoslav Province); Josephstal, Rybalsk, Kronsgarten (Novomoskovsk District); the Mennonite village of Schoenwiese, 17 Prussian villages, 2 Baden villages (Alexandrovsk District); 4 Swedish and 8 Jewish villages (Kherson Province); Danzig, Izrailevka (Elisabethgrad District); 40 Molotschna Mennonite villages, 23 Prischib Colony villages, 3 Württemberg villages (Melitopol District of the Taurida Province); Neusatz, Friedenthal, Rosenthal, Kronenthal, Baltachokrak (Simferopol District of the Taurida Province); Herzenberg, Zürichtal, Heilbrunn, Kishlav, and Old Crimea (Feodosia District of the Taurida Province); 2 Radichev Mennonite villages (Chernigov Provinces)

These documents are written in Russian, German, and French.
11 Jan 1829 to 6 Aug 1829. 180 pages.

Microfilm No. 951

File 2410. File concerning the resettlement of the colonists of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement from one colony to another.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee concerning the resettlement of the colonists from one colony to another;
  2. Gerhard Wide resettled from Neuhoffnung to Weinau.
  3. Mennonite Katherine Goertzen (widow) with her sons Jacob and David resettled from Kronstal to Sparrau.
  4. Mennonite Cornelius Reimer resettled from Schoenhorst to Halbstadt.

These documents are written in Russian.
28 Jan 1829 to 12 Nov 1829. 13 pages.

File 2415. File concerning the Mennonites, namely Johann Braun, Katharina and Johann Braun, Jacob Dyck, who arrived from Prussia to the Molotschna Colonies as visitors in 1817, and who wished to stay in Russia as residents.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, Russian Consul General in Danzig Ludwig von Tegoborsky, the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office about the Mennonites who arrived from Prussia in 1817, and who wished to stay in Russia.
  2. Information about documents for these Mennonites from the Prussia Government.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
8 Feb 1829 to 13 Dec 1829. 22 pages.

File 2421. File concerning an official letter from the Ekaterinoslav State Chamber about the necessity to impose taxes on the colonists, Mr. Kalfus and Mr. Reimer. There is information about artisans who lived in the cities, and who were enrolled to the department of their cities.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav State Chamber, and the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office about the enrollment of Christian Kalfus to Ekaterinoslav and Peter Reimer to Alexandrovsk. Taxes were imposed upon them as well as Anton Brainier of Josephstal.

These documents are written in Russian.
6 Mar 1829 to 12 Nov 1829. 10 pages.

File 2438. The Department of State Economy and Public Building demanded information to be sent concerning the amount of public incomes and the use public incomes from the sale of wine.

  1. An official letter from the Department of State Economy to the New Russia Guardianship Committee containing a demand to have information sent about the amount of public incomes from the sale of wine.
    Orders from the New Russia Guardianship Committee to the Ekaterinoslav, Odessa, and Bessarabia Guardianship Offices on the same subject.
    A register of incomes and expenses of the public monies that were obtained from the sale of wine in the colonies of the Bessarabia Settlement from 1817 to 1 Jan 1829.
    A report from the Odessa Guardianship Office about incomes and expenses of the public monies and the use public incomes from the sale of wine from 1816 to 1827.
    A register of incomes and expenses of the public monies that were obtained from the sale of wine in the colonies of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement until 1829. Information about and the use public incomes from the sale of wine.

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
5 Jul 1829 to 18 Feb 1830. 118 pages.

File 2451. The Department of State Economy and Public Building demanded that information be sent concerning the inherited funds for colonists that were sent to the New Russia Guardianship Committee during 1828.

  1. Correspondence from the Department of State Economy with the New Russia Guardianship Committee containing the inherited funds for the following colonists: Johann Gene (Bessarabia), Johann Kwelman (Bessarabia), Barbara Eslinger (Bessarabia), the infant children of the Mennonite Mr. Klassen, Maria Schefer (Bessarabia), and Schohn (Teplitz).

These documents are written in Russian.
13 Aug 1829 to 30 Aug 1829. 7 pages.

File 2464. The Mennonite Johann Cornies of Ohrloff rented of 39,039 dessiatines of empty land belonging to the Molotschna Colonies.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav Administration, the Chief of Odessa, and the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office about the delivery in rent of 39,039 dessiatines and 4000 dessiatines of empty land to the Mennonite Johann Cornies of Ohrloff.
  2. Information about auction.
  3. Conditions of this rent.

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
30 Nov 1829 to 18 Apr 1830. 22 pages.

File 2470. File concerning accidents that were happened in all the colonies for 1828.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav, Odessa, and Bessarabia Guardianship Offices, the Department of State Economy, and the Guardian of the Zadunaisky Settlers, Mr. Merder, concerning accidents (fires, destruction, murders, suicides, and drowned people…), which happened in all the colonies in 1828.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
22 Dec 1828 to 1 Aug 1829. 167 pages.

File 2472. The Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office asked the permission for the Mennonite Johann Wiebe to take away his goods that were detained on the frontier post in Mlawa, Poland.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office, the New Russia Guardianship Committee, and the Ministry of the Internal Affairs about permission for the Mennonite Johann Wiebe to take away his goods that were detained on the frontier post in Mlawa, Poland. Johann Wiebe arrived from Prussia to the Molotschna Mennonite District in 1828. His goods were sent as transit to Russia in 1830.

These documents are written in Russian.
21 Dec 1828 to 6 Jun 1834. 13 pages.

File 2485. File concerning the dispatch of a member of the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office to the Radichev Hutterite Colony for an investigation of their economic condition.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office and the New Russia Guardianship Committee about the Radichev Hutterite Colony, about the dispatch of a member of the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office, Mr. Babievsky, for an investigation of their economic condition and for getting things put in order. It was necessary because the Radichev Hutterite Brotherhood had been divided into estates of private property.
    An authorization for this trip.

These documents are written in Russian.
17 Jul 1829 to 25 April 1830. 7 pages.

1830

File 2594. Statistical information about state and public monies from the Bessarabia, Ekaterinoslav, and Odessa Guardianship Offices to the Guardianship Committee for 1830.

  1. Monthly registers of incomes and expenses of funds from the Bessarabia Guardianship Office from January to December 1830.
  2. Monthly registers of incomes and expenses of state funds from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office from January to December 1830.
  3. Monthly registers of incomes and expenses of funds from the Odessa Guardianship Office from January to December 1830.
  4. Monthly registers of incomes and expenses of funds from Bavaria and Württemberg colonists for 1830.
  5. Certificate to an offer from the Chief Guardian Mr. Inzov on 18 Mar 1830.

These documents are written in Russian.
5 Feb 1830 to 10 Feb 1831. 621 pages.

File 2599. File concerning the money that had been loaned to the colonists from the Odessa and Ekaterinoslav Settlements.

  1. Monthly lists of the funds that had been loaned to the colonists from the Odessa and Ekaterinoslav Settlements from January to December 1830.

These documents are written in Russian.
28 Feb 1830 to 23 Mar 1831. 363 pages.

File 2600. Statistical information about public monies in the colonies of New Russia for 1830.

  1. Monthly registers of incomes and expenses of public monies (and demand balance) in the colonies the Ekaterinoslav Settlement for 1830; semiannual accounts for 1830.
  2. Semiannual registers of incomes and expenses of public monies in the colonies the Bessarabia and Odessa Settlements for 1830.
  3. Semiannual registers of incomes and expenses of public monies in the colonies of New Russia for 1830.

These documents are written in Russian.
22 Mar 1830 to 28 Aug 1831. 216 pages.

Microfilm No. 952

File 2612. File concerning payments of the different taxes from the Ekaterinoslav and Odessa Settlements from 1830 to 1835.

  1. Correspondence from the Kherson State Chamber, the Odessa District Exchequer, the Ekaterinoslav and Odessa Guardianship Offices, the State Bank, and the Guardianship Committee concerning payments of the different taxes from the Ekaterinoslav and Odessa Settlements from 1830 to1835.

These documents are written in Russian.
31 Dec 1830 to 21 Aug 1834. 35 pages.

1831

File 2627. File concerning a report from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office about the payment for the use of lands belonging to the sheepfold as communal property of the colonists (Molotschna Colonist District).

  1. A report from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office to the New Russia Guardianship Committee about the necessity to impose taxes upon the colonists from Gruental* (and neighbour colonies) for the use lands belonging to the sheepfold as communal property of the colonists (Molotschna Colonist District).
  2. Information about the permission to use partially sheepfold lands as pastures for colonies from another districts (Mariupol and Berdjansk).

* The Gruental Colony had been settled near the sheepfold as communal property of the colonists in the Molotschna Colonist District for the purpose to help and keep flocks, especially during winter. Gruental consisted of 10 farms. Each of owners had 60 dessiatines of lands and used lands belonging to the sheepfold as communal property of the colonists.

These documents are written in Russian.
6 November 1831. 4 pages.

File 2631. File concerning a report from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office that contain information about getting things put in order in some colonies of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.

  1. A report from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office to the New Russia Guardianship Committee about getting things put in order in some colonies of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement (Chortitza and Molotschna Colonies): punishment of negligent owners, completion of construction, repairs, and so on.

These documents are written in Russian.
30 November 1831. 15 pages.

File 2635. File concerning the duty money that was collected from the Mennonites and colonists for the issuance of temporary passports for trips on personal business and what was sent in to the Exchequer.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, and the Ekaterinoslav and Odessa Guardianship Offices concerning the duty money that was sent in to the Exchequer, and what was collected from Mennonites and colonists for the issuance of temporary passports for trips on personal business.
  2. Names of colonists and Mennonites who had paid the duty money: Michael Schmoda (Landau); Phillip Entsel, Michael Scherer (Mannheim); Anton Kopp (Rastadt); Emanuel Wax (Lustdorf); Peter Zanbreher (Rastadt); Sebastian Benkman (Heidelberg); Margaretha and her husband Heinrich Penner (Schoenhorst); Johann Kobits (München); Ludwig Heckle (Neusatz, Crimea); Ludwig Meier (Hoffnungstal, Odessa Settlement); Christian Rudolf (Bergdorf); Johann George Mesner (Bergdorf); the Mennonite Franz Loewen, Gottlieb Reihkemmer (Gross Liebental); Abraham Avrutin (Izluchistaya).

These documents are written in Russian.
31 Dec 1830 to 30 Nov 1831. 33 pages.

File 2637. File concerning the issuance of temporary passports to colonists from the Bessarabia, Odessa and Ekaterinoslav Settlements who had obtained permission to leave the colonies for business and private affairs during 1831.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee and the Ekaterinoslav, Bessarabia, and Odessa Guardianship Offices concerning the issuance of temporary passports to colonists who had obtained permission to leave the colonies for business and private affairs during 1831.
  2. Names of colonists and Mennonites who had obtained passports are the following: the Mennonite David Schroeder (Kronsgarten); Anna Betner (1st Ferschampenuaz); Sebastian Binkmann (Heidelberg); Johann Schulze (Tarutino); Christian Heiser (Bergdorf); Michael Moshinsky and his wife Anna Maria (1st Ferschampenuaz); Franz Almas and his wife Katherina, son Alexander (Krasna).
  3. Monthly lists of names of the colonists who had obtained permission to leave the colonies for business and private affairs from the Ekaterinoslav, Bessarabia, and Odessa Offices.

These documents are written in Russian.
31 Dec 1830 to 7 Jan 1832. 67 pages.

File 2639. File concerning the colonists and Mennonites who returned to their colonies after a trip abroad.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee and the Ekaterinoslav, Bessarabia, and Odessa Offices concerning the colonists and Mennonites who returned to their colonies after a trip abroad.
  2. Names of colonists who returned to their colonies are the following: Andreas Bette (Johannestal); Teobold Bruker (Karlsruhe, Odessa Settlement); Johann Folk (Friedenthal); Josef Bole (Elsass); George Heilman (Elsass); Ottilia Gemerling (Mannheim); Andreas Schtrauh and his son Martin (Neuhoffnungstal); Frederick Wurzinger (Glueckstal).
  3. Names of the Mennonites who returned to their colonies are the following: Jacob Schellenberg, Klaas Heide (Tiegenhagen); Peter Rahn (Sparrau); Jacob de Jager (Fuerstenwerder); Jacob and Michael Buller (Karlsruhe, Molotschna Colonist District); August Gukenberg (Neuhoffnungstal); Wilhelm Wagner (Worms).
  4. Lists of registration forms of passports.

These documents are written in Russian.
7 Jan 1831 to 13 Nov 1831. 19 pages.

File 2640. File concerning incidents, events, and accidents that were happened in all the colonies for 1831.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav, Odessa, and Bessarabia Guardianship Offices, the Department of State Economy, and the Guardian of the Zadunaisky Settlers, Ministry of the Internal Affairs concerning the deceased colonists, fires, floods, theft, destruction, murders, and the others accidents that were happened in all the colonies for 1831.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
24 Dec 1830 to 19 Dec 1831. 228 pages.

File 2652. Statistical information about financial, industrial, and economic activity of the colonists from the Ekaterinoslav and Bessarabia Settlements for 1831.

  1. Monthly lists containing information about financial, industrial, and economic activity of colonists from the Ekaterinoslav and Bessarabia Settlements for 1831.

These documents are written in Russian.
9 Feb 1831 to 15 Jan 1832. 139 pages.

File 2674. File concerning the money that had been loaned to the colonists from the Odessa and Ekaterinoslav Settlements.

  1. Monthly lists of the funds that had been loaned to the colonists from the Odessa and Ekaterinoslav Settlements (the money was borrowed from public incomes from the sale of wine, sheep breeding, and so on).

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
28 Feb 1831 to 21 Mar 1832. 333 pages.

File 2677. File concerning the orphans' money belonging to the colonists from the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.

  1. Semi-annual lists of the amounts of the orphans' money for 1831.

These documents are written in Russian.
30 Jul 1831 to 5 Feb 1832. 4 pages.

1832

File 2682. Statistical information about financial, industrial and economical activity of the colonists from the colonies of the New Russia Region for 1832.

  1. Lists containing information about financial, industrial and economical activity of colonists from the colonies of the New Russia Region for 1832.

These documents are written in Russian.
1 Jan 1832 to 1 Dec 1832. 11 pages.

File 2685. File concerning the resettlement of the colonists and Mennonites of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.
Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee concerning the resettlement of the colonists and Mennonites:

  1. 20 families (that arrived from Württemberg in 1829, 1830,1831) resettled to Neu-Stuttgart (Melitopol District); a list of names of these colonists;
  2. Gottlieb Betsch from Württemberg resettled to Ludwigstal; Gottlieb Dilger - to Ludwigstal; Michael Rube - to the Mariupol District; Daniel Gotman, Jacob Frederick Gotman, Johann George Fiddler, Christian Pullman - to Mirau; Jacob Galler - to Weinau; Christian Frederick Clink and his sister Elisabeth Katherine Clink resettled to Neuhoffnung (to the family of the colonist Johann Schok).
  3. The Mennonite Cornelius Wall (who arrived to Russia in 1818) resettled to the family of the Mennonite Sarah Cornelsen of Grossweide (Molotschna Mennonite District).
  4. Nine new families from Württemberg settled to Ludwigstal; a list of names of these colonists.
  5. Four families (that arrived from Württemberg in 1830 and 1831) settled in Ludwigstal; a list of names of these colonists; information about receiving of the money for them from the Odessa firm Sicard and Company.
  6. The Stuttgart firm Stahl and Federer's cash vouchers from the colonists for settlement in Russia.
  7. The Odessa firm Sicard and Company's cash vouchers for the colonists.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
23 Dec 1831 to 17 Jan 1833. 71 pages.

File 2688. File concerning the inheritances of the colonists and Mennonites of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.

  1. Correspondence from the Department of State Economy, the New Russia Guardianship Committee, and the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office about the inheritances of the colonists and Mennonites: Elisabeth Leopold nee Appel (Heidelberg); Mennonite Franz Kroeker (Muensterberg); Barbara Lauer (Friedenthal); Mennonite Jacob Dell of Kronsweide, Mennonite Jacob Schenke of Tiegerweide; Frederick and Magdalena Creamer (Leitershausen); the Mennonites Heinrich Horn (Alexanderthal) and Johann Horn (Fuerstenwerder); the infant children Anne and Katharina Loewen; Roseanne Fisher; Concordia Jungus.
  2. Correspondence from the Department of State Economy, the New Russia Guardianship Committee, and the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office about the letters of attorney (to inherit abroad) for: Fredrick and Bernhard Lorenz (Reihenfeld); Mennonites Elisabeth Fast nee Warkentin, Klaus Fast (Halbstadt), Jacob Warkentin (Sparrau), George Mesmer (Zurichtal), Jacob Penner (Rueckenau), David Voth (Rudnerweide), Aron Wiens (Rudnerweide), Katherina Regier (Fuerstenau), Michael Regier (Ladekopp), Jacob Walde (Altonau), the infant children Jacob and Peter Wiens (Rueckenau), Michael Wagner (Molotschna), Peter Heinrichs (Schoenwiese), Heinrich Stager (Kronsfeld), Dietrich Dick (Sparrau), Sarah Voth nee Nikkel, Wilhelm Voth, Katherina Reimer nee Thiessen and her husband Aron Reimer (Ohrloff), Isaak Loewen (Lindenau), Elisabeth Becker nee Ewert and her husband Peter Becker (Rudnerweide), Heinrich Pankratz (Friedensdorf) and his wife Elisabeth Pankratz nee Schmidt, Paul Schlenker (Weinau), Katherina Simon (Waldorf), Katherina Baitinger nee Aizenman (Neuhoffnungsthal), Jacob Kamerer and Katherina Gal nee Kamerer (Molotschna), Marianna Tom nee Berber (Friedrichsfeld), Heinrich Dirksen and Maria Dirksen nee Warkentin (Sparrau), Johann Warkentin (Ladekopp).

These documents are written in Russian.
4 Jan 1832 to 20 Jan 1833. 132 pages.

File 2736. File concerning the delay of payment for grain (grain was given from the reserve store) to the Mennonites of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement in 1832 until harvest in 1833.

  1. Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office with the Guardianship Committee concerning the delay of payment for grain to the Mennonites from the Molotschna District.

These documents are written in Russian.
20 Oct 1832 to 10 Jan 1833. 6 pages.

File 2745. File concerning the duty money that was collected from the Mennonites and colonists for the issuance of the passports and documents and was sent in the Exchequer.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee and the Ekaterinoslav and the Odessa Guardianship Offices concerning the duty money that was sent in to the Exchequer and that was collected from Mennonites and colonists for the issuance of the passports, documents, etc.
  2. Names of colonists who had paid the duty money for the issuance of passports for trips on personal business are the following: Josef Schtraub (Luestdorf), Gottlieb Widman (Gross Liebental), George Stichel (Neudorf, Molotschna Colonist District), Michael Fridel (Rastadt), Karl Wandgamer (Gross Liebental), Emanuel Wax (Luestdorf), Johann Smeisner (Gueldendorf), Michael Scherer (Mannheim), Vendelius Stro (Katharinental), Ernestine Steinich (Gross Liebental), Christian Beringer (Bergdorf), Michael Senger (Selz), Teul Gutkin (Gross Nagartav), Leiba Borovik (Izluchistaya).
  3. Jacob and Peter Wiens of the Molotschna Colonies and Jacob Dell of Kronsweide had paid for registration of the documents about the inheritance abroad.

These documents are written in Russian.
23 Dec 1831 to 30 Nov 1832. 36 pages.

File 2746. File concerning the issuance of temporary passports to colonists from the Bessarabia, Odessa, and Ekaterinoslav Settlements who had obtained permission to leave the colonies for business and private affairs during 1832.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee and the Ekaterinoslav, Bessarabia, and Odessa Guardianship Offices concerning the issuance of temporary passports to colonists who had obtained permission to leave the colonies for business and private affairs during 1832 and about their return home.
  2. The Mennonites Jacob and Johann Harder had returned from Prussia to Schoenwiese.
  3. Gottlieb Buck had returned from the Kingdom of Württemberg to Neuhoffnung.
  4. Andreas Strauch from Neuhoffnungstal died of disease in Ludwigsburg.
  5. Names of the colonists who had obtained the passports are the following: Friedrich Kratz and Jacob Hocker (Fershampenuas), Michael Bollinger (Kandel), Christian Haecker (Sarata).
  6. The Mennonites who had obtained the passports for inheritance affairs are the following: Abraham Wiebe, wife Helena, and daughter Helena from Pastwa, because of a trip to Marienwerder, Prussia; Abraham Ediger from Grossweide, because of a trip to Marienwerder; Jacob Isaak from Sparrau, because of a trip to Elbing; Jacob de Jager from Fuerstenwerder, because of a trip to Hamburg; Jacob Schellenberg from Tiegenhagen, because of a trip to Tiegenhof; Johann Thiessen from Muensterberg, because of a trip to Tiegenhof; Johann Rempel from Ladekopp, because of a trip to Elbing; Peter Wiehler from Sparrau, because of a trip to Elbing; Jacob Esau from Einlage, because of a trip to Marienburg; Peter Lepp from Einlage, because of a trip to Danzig.
  7. Lists containing statistical information about the issuance of temporary passports from May to August 1832.

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
15 Jan 1832 to 22 Feb 1832. 29 pages.

File 2753. File concerning incidents, events, and accidents that were happened in all the colonies for 1832.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav, Odessa, and Bessarabia Guardianship Offices, the Department of State Economy, the Guardian of the Zadunaisky Settlers, and the Ministry of the Internal Affairs concerning the deceased colonists, fires, disasters, floods, theft, destruction, murders, and the others accidents that were happened in all the colonies for 1832.
  2. Deceased colonists: Friedrich Tribe (Karlsruhe, Ekaterinoslav Settlement), Johann Renz (Weinau), Josef Braun (Franzfeld), daughter of Peter Trabtman (Worms), Johann Arend (Tiegenhoff), Christina Frish (Neuenburg), Johann Grad (Josephstal, Odessa Settlement), Louisa Krenzler (Glueckstal), Heinrich Eiternik (Molotschna), Franz Fisher (Waldorf), Josef Wedler (Kaiserdorf), Samuel Brendler (Weinau), Dirk Wiebe (Ladekopp), Johann Gaer (Kostheim).
  3. A report from the Guardian of the Zadunaisky Settlers to the New Russia Guardianship Committee.
  4. An order from the Department of State Economy to the New Russia Guardianship Committee concerning preventive measures in case of fires, failure of crops in the colonies,
  5. Reports from the Ekaterinoslav, Odessa, and Bessarabia Guardianship Offices to the New Russia Guardianship Committee about the accomplishment of these preventive measures.

These documents are written in Russian.
31 Dec 1832 to 3 Jan 1833. 175 pages.

File 2758. Statistical information about financial, industrial and economic activity of the colonists from the Ekaterinoslav, Odessa, and Bessarabia Settlements for 1832.

  1. Monthly lists from the Ekaterinoslav, Odessa, and Bessarabia Guardianship Offices to the New Russia Guardianship Committee containing information about financial, industrial and economic activity of colonists from the Ekaterinoslav, Odessa, and Bessarabia Settlements for 1832.

These documents are written in Russian.
13 Feb 1832 to 12 Jan 1833. 143 pages.

File 2783. File concerning an incident in which Voznesensk settler Stephan Stoganenko (also called Pavluetenko as well) exported hot wine from the Nieder Chortitza tavern.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee with the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office of Foreign Settlers, the Ekaterinoslav Government concerning the local sale of wine from the Nieder Chortitza tavern.
  2. A petition from the farmer of all colony taverns of the Chortitza District, the Mennonite Elias Janzen.
  3. An opinion written by the deputy from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office, Mr. Osinsky, about the necessity to examine this case in the Ekaterinoslav Minor Court.

These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
10 Jun 1832 to 27 Aug 1832. 20 pages.

1833

File 2891. File concerning the colonists from the Bessarabia, Odessa and Ekaterinoslav Settlements who had obtained permission to leave the colonies for business during 1833.

  1. 1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav, Bessarabia and Odessa Guardianship Offices concerning the colonists who had obtained permission to leave the colonies for business.
    2. Names of the colonists mentioned in the correspondence are following: Adam Trautman (Worms), Gottlieb Reihkemmer (Gross Liebental), George Schmitt (Rohrbach), Martin Wulm (Franzfeld), Andreas Gal (Rastadt), Friedrich Bush (Schlagendorf), Peter Geberling (Miulganzendorf), Michael Buhen (Miulganzendorf), Jacob Kvadrizius (Schlagendorf), Theobald Layer (Friedenthal), Anton Layer (Friedenthal, the Crimea), Andreas Dogner (Tiefenbrunn), Margaretha Klumbah (Hochstaedt), Georg Zeiferling (Kronenthal), Simon Beringer (Alexanderhilf), Christoph Alber (Luestdorf), Johann Georg Mesner (Bergdorf), Michael Mesmer (Katharinental), Margaretha Markward (Kandel), Albreht Scheil (Munich), David Kerner (Gross Liebental), Johann Moser (Blumental), David Alterman (Gross Nagartav), Rafael Alterman (Gross Nagartav), Johann Bonels (Kirshwald), Michael Layan (Grunau), Michael Fogus (Grunau), Leonhard Saipel (Ludwigstal), Maria Dell (Belowesch), Heinrich Matias (Neusatz), Simon Friedrich Schetle (Gross Liebental), Josef Fritz (Landau), Georg Schlihenmeier (Gross Liebental), Josef Steier (Klein Liebenthal), Adam Neifred (Alexanderhilf), Martin Krol (Molotschna), Johann Lerh (Neu Nassau), Adam Est (Kronental), Johann Lengle (Heidelberg), Simon Heberling (Miulganzendorf), Lorenz Wenniger (Selz), Josef Worst (Landau), Francisco Hepfner (Baden), Michael Gaiser (Rohrbach),Georg Laturus (Mannheim), George Specht (Worms), Ludwig Heckle (Neusatz), Bernhard Mench (Neusatz), George Schmidt (Kronenthal), Friedrich and his wife Charlotte Kirshbaum (Molotschna), August Winkler (Molotschna), Gottlieb Reichert (Hoffental), Konrad Hoffman (Molotschna), Christof Bechter (Tarutino), Gottlieb Nikelwart (Teplitz), Ludwig Hoffman (Gross Liebental), Philip and Adam Lesch (Kandel), Alexis Lesch (Kandel), Peter Nabauer and his wife Katherina (Karlsruhe, the Odessa Settlement), Georg Scherer (Gross Liebental), Heinrich Burgemeister (Luestdorf),Anton Mailer (Klein Liebenthal), Georg Gaushauer(Glueckstal), Christian Flemmer (Glueckstal), Samuel Mecke (Glueckstal), Rosine Maier (Glueckstal), Johann Adam Spengler (Gross Liebental), Magdalena Ashbaher (Schpeier ), Johann Schuman (Rohrbach), Philip Martin Weihele (Baden), Johannes Kraft (Strassburg), George Martin Gall (Gueldendorf), Josef Knoll (Marienthal), Johannes Graph (Waterloo), Johannes German (Waterloo), Jacob Frank (Neuenburg), Jacob Ell (Selz), Michael Lehn (Friedrichsfeld), Adam Linker (Friedrichsfeld), Alexander Bander (Friedrichsfeld), Romanus Wunsh (Molotschna), Erdman Preys (Wieckerau), Anna Maria Damrau (Reichenberg), George Just (Kronsdorf), Kornelius Dodengef (Grunau), Peter Schtamler (Kronsfeld), Franz Fisher (Waldorf), Ludwig Beck (Waldorf), Johann Eberhard (Glueckstal), Jacob Baum (Gross Liebental), Friedrich Baumhartner (Gross Liebental), Jacob Schpecht (Gross Liebental), Johann Schpecht (Gross Liebental), Johann Schpieler (Gross Liebental), Johann Sauer (Gross Liebental), Jacob Scher (Waterloo), Jacob Graph (Waterloo), Katherina Ziegloch (Borodino), Karl and Johann Merts (Berizina), Casper Binkmann (Heidelberg), Theodore Kess (Molotschna), George Mamberg (Molotschna), Nicholas Kiriak (Baltachokrak), Josef Wibert (Klosterdorf), Adam Hoffman (Molotschna), Michael Breiner (Kostheim), Jacob Shmit (Friedenthal), Michael Schprench (Johannestal), Franz Bestitsky (Gross Liebental), Mateas Gerzog (Klein Liebenthal), Andreas Martin (Gross Liebental), George Flihersdorf (Worms), Josef Wichlinsky (Molotschna), Josel Relman (Efengar), Johann Erdman (Schoenbaum), Johann Schmidt (Rueckenau), Johann Weber (Klosterdorf), Johann Opeinlender (Heuhoffnung), Philip Fasnacht (Luestdorf), Gabriel Wolf (Bergdorf), Adam Schtoler (Gross Liebental), Katherina Dell (Kassel), Gottlieb Schmirer (Peterstal), Wilhelm Albert (Gross Liebental), Friedrich Schill (Hoffnungstal, the Odessa Settlement), Johann Mesner (Bergdorf), Friedrich Etinger (Gross Liebental), Constantine Kautzmann (Rastadt), Jacob Grauer (Worms), Samuel Morhard (Waterloo), Stephanida Denig (Kandel), Michael Fridel (Munich), Philip Schneider (Rohrbach), Franz Kifel (Franzfeld), Gottlieb Bender (Gross Liebental), Johann Clement (Marienthal), Josef Edinger (Johannestal), Maria Schtengle (Gross Liebental), Solomon Burkgard (Neu Friedenthal), Heinrich Thiessen (Chortitza), Johann Adam Olenburger (Rundewiese), Friedrich Mamberg (Molotschna), Anton and Josef Gek (Baden), Katherina Kupser (Kandel), Elisabeth Gaim (Alexanderhilf), Jacob Meyer (Gross Liebental), Gottlieb Dietrich (Gross Liebental), Elisabeth Laufer (Selz), Johann Schtaleker (Gueldendorf), Clement Schtaleker (Gueldendorf).

These documents are written in both Russian and German.
4 Feb 1833 to 1 Jan 1834. 51 pages.

File 2936. File concerning the issuance of temporary passports to colonists from the Bessarabia, Odessa and Ekaterinoslav Settlements who had obtained permission to leave the colonies for trips abroad during 1833.

  1. Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the Ekaterinoslav, Bessarabia and Odessa Guardianship Offices concerning the issuance of temporary passports to colonists who had obtained permission to leave the colonies for trips abroad during 1833.
  2. Names of the colonists mentioned in the correspondence are following: Johannes Schlenker (Klaustitz), Johann Brust (Franzfeld), the Mennonite Heinrich Siebert and his family (Elisabeththal), the Mennonite Solomon Ediger (Grossweide), the Mennonite Jacob Doerksen (Franzthal), the Mennonite Jacob Dyck (Sparrau), Friedrich Weidler (Alexanderhilf), Engelbert Gahbaum (Gueldendorf), Michael Schtadinger (Friedenthal), Stephan Kifel (Selz), Jacob Klein (Teplitz), Mateas Walter (Teplitz), Johann Martin Nagel (Teplitz), Lorenz Klein (Strassburg), Andreas Krim (Baden), Nickolaus Seraphim Kist and his wife Katherina (Kostheim), Christian Gol (Heuhoffnung), Johann George Mann (Glueckstal), Samuel Kraft (Leipzig), George Matz (Berizina), Karl and Ludwig Hieldenbrand (Borodino), Petko Iliev (Karagach), Stow Stoev (Karagach), Tanas Karazanfiroglu (Bolboka), Tanas Petkolgu (Bolboka).
  3. Reports from the Ekaterinoslav, Bessarabia and Odessa Guardianship Offices to the New Russia Guardianship Committee concerning the colonists who returned in their colonies after they had moved abroad. There are the following colonists: Michael Bollinger (Kandel), Katherina Rigger and her son Adam (Hoffental), Johann Rgiekovsky (Tiergardt). Michael Krauz had returned from Kingdom of Württemberg to Neu-Stuttgart, and had brought along Anna-Maria Laiz (native of Württemberg) and then they got married in Molotschna. Michael Janke had returned from Prussia and he married the foreigner Anna Gerz.
  4. A report from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office to the New Russia Guardianship Committee concerning cancellation of a trip of Jacob Beker (Wickerau) to Danzig for domestic reasons.

These documents are written in Russian.
9 Mar 1833 to 23 Jan 1834. 59 pages.

File 3055. File concerning financial statements containing information about all the colonies dependent on the New Russia Guardianship Committee for 1833.

  1. Monthly financial statements from the Ekaterinoslav, Bessarabia, and Odessa Guardianship Offices and the Administration of Zadunaisky Settlers to the New Russia Guardianship Committee for 1833.
  2. Reports containing financial statements for 1833 from the New Russia Guardianship Committee to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

These documents are written in Russian.
14 Feb 1833 to 5 Aug 1833. 416 pages.

Microfilm No. 1123

1834

File 3105.  File concerning rent revenue from the colonies of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement (Molotschna District, Chortitza District, and Mariupol District).

 

Correspondence from the supervisors (inspectors) of colonies of Districts 1, 2 and 3 of the Taurida Public Dispatch Office, from the executive dispatch office of the Taurida Province, from the Taurida civil governor, and from the Odessa office of the State Commercial Bank with the Guardianship Committee about the return of fishing rights, vacant land for rent, and the status and the recovery of rent (loan) money in the Molotschna Mennonite, Prischib, Chortitza, and Mariupol Districts; about the establishment of the Mennonite village of Gnadenfeld in 1835.  Johann Cornies transferred part of his rented lands (3.420 dessiatines) to the colony for use by the village of Gnadenfeld. Trade sheet on the return of land, in possession of Blumenthal, for rent for three years and conditions of upkeep.

An application from the Mennonite Johann Cornies of the village of Ohrloff to reserve for himself 32,000 dessiatines of lands for 4 more years.

Accounts concerning the Molotschna District order on payment effected by Mennonites J. Cornies and Peter Toews for the upkeep of rented land from May 24, 1822 to May 24, 1833.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

26 Jan 1834 to 8 Jul 1835.  277 pages.

 

File 3108.  File concerning transfers of the colonists from one to another colony, transfers of estates from one Mennonite or colonist to another person, and marriages of settlers.

 

Mennonite Jacob Bueckert of Kronsthal to Mennonite Peter Hildebrand of Burwalde

Mennonite Peter Harder of Schoenhorst to Mennonite Jacob Olfert of Schoenhorst

Mennonite Wilhelm Niessen of Schoeneberg to Mennonite Wilhelm Unrau of Kronsthal,

Mennonite Johann Harms of Blumstein to Mennonite Peter Dyck of Petershagen,

Mennonite Gerhard Janzen of Wernersdorf to Mennonite Bernhard Epp of Tiegerweide

Friedrich Gross of Sudak, Jacob Weissmann

Friedrich Stark of Neu Stuttgart to David Ruff of Neu Stuttgart

Mennonite Abraham Penner of Rosengart to Mennonite Jacob Elias of Chortitza

Mennonite Peter Heide of Burwalde to Mennonite Johann Petkau of Burwalde

Mennonite Johann Enns of Burwalde to Mennonite Peter Harder of Rosenthal

Mennonite Johann Petkau of Blumengart to Mennonite Peter Petkau of Burwalde

Mennonite Johann Reimer of Kronsweide to Mennonite Heinrich Kasper of Nieder Chortitza

Mennonite Johann Friesen of Schoeneberg to Mennonite Dirk De Fehr of Nieder Chortitza

Tobias Bauer of Durlach to George Lutz of Durlach

Gottlieb Bartsch of Rybalsk to Michael Kudven of Rybalsk.

George Bauer of Rybalsk to Peter Muntaneoljo of Rybalsk

Johann Gabriel of Wickerau to Jacob Berwald of Reichenberg

Johan Get (Het?) of Mirau to Michael Brode of Reichenberg

David Grabowsky of Kaisersdorf, Marie Defert

Johann Remke of Stary Montal

Michael Lenka of Heitland

Johann Malachensky of Heitland

Jacob Matiewsky of Neuhof to Benjamin Rung of Stary Montal

Peter Rode of Eichwahl to Johann Erlinsk of Heitland

Mennonite Bernard Rempel of Neuhorst to Mennonite Klaas Wall of Chortitza

Mennonite Johann Klassen of Schoenhorst to Mennonite Bernhard Rempel of Neuhorst

Mennonite Cornelius Eitzen of Neu Osterwick to Mennonite Johann Klassen of Schoenhorst

Michael Unger of Tiergart to Johann Kasper of Tiergart

George Zeltzer of Elisabethdorf to Friedrich Kern of Elisabethdorf

Colonist Johann Hiebert of Josephstal, Ekaterinoslav Settlement.

Johann Janzen of Josephstal

Johann Zackshewskogo of Wickerau to Wilhelm Rutkowsky of Wickerau

Johann Stahl of Landau

Wilhelm Pflugfelder of Ludwigstal

Elisabeth Gelke of Neusatz

Johann Suehr

 

These documents are written in Russian and German.

2 Feb 1834 to 15 Nov 1835.  125 pages.

 

File 3128.  File concerning the issuance of temporary passports to Mennonites and colonists who had obtained permission to leave the colonies for trips abroad during 1834.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

9 Mar 1824 to 29 Jan 1835.  170 pages.

 

File 3131.  File concerning a contract which was made with the Radichev Mennonites, namely David Hofer and Andreas Wurz.  They paid for the fishing rights on the lake of Khotin that belonged to the Radichev Mennonite Community.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

7 Mar 1834 to 6 Jun 1836.  22 pages.

 

File 3155.  Statistical information about the rents of the colonists in all the colonies dependent on the New Russia Guardianship Committee for 1833, 1834, 1835, and 1836.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

1 Jan 1833 to 23 Nov 1836.  63 pages.

 

File 3178.  File concerning the Lutheran Wilhelm Bonnellis (son of Johann Bonnellis of Grunau) of Kirshwald who wished to adopt the Mennonite faith because his mother Katharina Wall had been a Mennonite.  The New Russia Guardianship Committee did not comply with his request.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

5 Sep 1835 to 18 Dec 1834.  10 pages.

 

File 3185.  File concerning a report by the district inspector Mr. Biller about giving permission for the Chortitza Colony Mennonites to build a church.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

24 Apr 1834 to 12 Oct 1834.  7 pages.

 

File 3186.  File concerning the construction of a public building in the village of Halbstadt.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

26 Sep 1834 to 9 Oct 1834.  3 pages.

 

File 3200.  File concerning the Radichev Mennonite Johann Hofer who wished to resettle to the Molotschna Mennonite Colonies.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

24 Aug 1834 to 11 Dec 1834.  18 pages.

 

File 3215.  File concerning incidents, events, and accidents that happened in all the colonies during 1834.  Deceased Mennonites:  Klaas Fast of Halbstadt and Gerhard Heidebrecht of Fischau.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

21 Dec 1833 to 30 Jun 1836.  419 pages.

1835

[See MHC microfilm No. 1123-1124] Files 3105-4128. Acc. No. 03-132].

File 3317.  File concerning the merchant Fotya Margaritov’s debts to the Mennonites from the Molotschna Mennonite District, namely Abraham Friesen of Halbstadt and Abraham Toews of Fuerstenau.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

24 Feb 1834 to 8 Feb 1844.  68 pages.

 

File 3345.  File concerning a report from the inspector, Mr. Pelech, to the New Russia Guardianship Committee about the need to pay damages to the Mennonite Heinrich Janzen of Schoenwiese.  A herd of horses that belonged to the College Assessor, Mr. Tarasevich, trampled down the cornfields that belonged to the Mennonite Heinrich Janzen.

10 Mar 1834 to 28 Sep 1834.  5 pages.

 

File 3426.  File concerning financial and economical activity (leases and so forth) of the colonists from the colonies dependent on the New Russia Guardianship Committee from 1835 to 1839.  This file consists of contract documents, trade agreements, and lists.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

28 May 1834 to 18 Jan 1839.  409 pages.

 

File 3431.  File concerning a report from the inspector, Mr. Pelech, to the New Russia Guardianship Committee about the counterfeit banknote (200 rubles) that was found in the Molotschna Mennonite District Office.

6 Jun 1834 to 15 Jun 1834.  3 pages.

 

File 3606.  Statistical information about public monies in the colonies of New Russia for 1833.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

4 Jan 1834 to 1 Mar 1835.  251 pages.

 

File 3610.  File concerning the enrollment of colonists to different colonies dependent on the New Russia Guardianship Committee for 1834.  About an allotment of lands of the colonists for 1834.  There is information about a group of Mennonites who arrived in 1833.  Lists of the Mennonite families are included.  These Mennonites were enrolled in the colonies of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

31 Jan 1834 to 16 Nov 1834.  69 pages.

 

File 3611.  File concerning account books for the Molotschna (Mennonites and Colonists) District.

3 Feb 1834 to 28 Feb 1834.  6 pages.

 

File 3616.  File concerning account books for the Radichev Village Office.

8 Feb 1834 to 28 Feb 1834.  2 pages.

 

File 3630.  Statistical information about public monies in the colonies of New Russia for May 1834.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

1 May 1834 to 22 Sep 1834.  212 pages.

 

File 3648.  File concerning reports from the Radichev Village Office to the New Russia Guardianship Committee.  The reports consist of the registers of incomes and expenses of the public monies for 1834.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

Jan 1834 to 12 Jan 1835.  47 pages.

 

File 3650.  File concerning a list compiled by Inspector Biller about the sum of public monies in the Chortitza Colony District and the Josephtal Colony District in 1834.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

Jan 1834 to 8 May 1835.  85 pages.

 

File 3651.  File concerning the money that had been loaned to the colonists from the Molotschna (Mennonites and Colonists) District.  Monthly lists of the funds that had been loaned to the colonists.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

Feb 1834 to 18 Jan 1835.  57 pages.

 

File 3652.  File concerning reports from the inspector, Mr. Pelech, to the New Russia Guardianship Committee about the public monies in the colonies of the Molotschna (Mennonites and Colonists) District for 1834.  The reports consist of the registers of incomes and expenses of the public monies for 1834.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

Jan 1834 to 1 Feb 1835.  250 pages.

 

File 3673.  Statistical information regarding the welfare of the colonies dependent on the New Russia Guardianship Committee for 1834.

These documents are written in Russian, French, and German.

4 Jan 1834 to 10 Nov 1834.  322 pages.

 

File 3686.  File concerning smallpox vaccinations of the colonists’ children in the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.  Lists of children vaccinated against smallpox in the New Russian Colonies in 1833 and 1834.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

26 Feb 1834 to 8 Oct 1835.  107 pages.

 

File 3717.  File concerning information about congregations, ministers, and schools in the Molotschna Mennonite District for 1834.  There is information about the number of householders, houses, males, females, and children.  There is information about schoolteachers, schoolhouses, ministers, and churches.

These documents are written in Russian, French, and German.

31 Jul 1834 to 8 Jun 1835.  335 pages.

Microfilm No. 1124

 

File 3734.  Statistical lists (in a new form) written by the inspectors of the colonies regarding the welfare of the colonies for 1834, which was sent to the New Russia Guardianship Committee regarding the Molotschna Mennonite District.

These documents are written in Russian, French, and German.

13 Nov 1834 to 20 May 1835.  405 pages

 

File 3744.  Statistical information about public monies in the colonies (Molotschna Mennonite District and Chortitza Colonies).

These documents are written in Russian and German.

3 Feb 1834 to 14 May 1834.  33 pages.

 

File 3747.  File concerning the inheritances of the colonists and Mennonites in the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

22 Dec 1834 to 11 Jun 1835.  200 pages.

 

File 3756.  File concerning the Mennonite Jacob Rempel of Halbstadt who rented 2587 dessiatines of vacant land for 3 years.

2 Jan 1835 to 31 Jan 1835.  4 pages.

 

File 3765.  File concerning the Mennonites from the Molotschna Mennonite District who transferred their estates during 1834 and 1835.

27 Jan 1835 to 31 Dec 1837.  31 pages.

 

File 3782.  File concerning the Mennonite Wilhelm Dirksen of Sparrau who was enrolled in the new village of Gnadenfeld.

7 Sep 1835 to 17 Sep 1835.  3 pages.

 

File 3783.  File concerning Cornelius Dyck, a native of Prussia, who was enrolled in the Mennonite village of Grossweide.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

28 Feb 1835 to 2 Feb 1836.  13 pages.

 

File 3792.  File concerning the Mennonite Jacob Janzen of Burwalde who was expelled from Mennonite Community because he had adopted the Orthodox religion.

28 Sep 1835 to 15 Oct 1835.  5 pages.

 

File 3800.  File concerning the establishment of a cemetery in Ohrloff.  A draft of the cemetery done in color (1835).

These documents are written in Russian and German.

16 Oct 1835 to 29 Oct 1835.  6 pages.

 

File 3812.  File concerning the enrollment of 5 Mennonite families that arrived from Poland in a new colony named Gnadenfeld in the Molotschna Mennonite District.  Lists of these Mennonite families.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

6 Nov 1835 to 4 May 1837.  68 pages.

 

File 3814.  File concerning incidents, events, and accidents that happened in all the colonies during 1835.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

30 Dec 1834 to 16 Feb 1838.  232 pages.

 

File 3852.  File concerning a report from the Radichev Village Office to the New Russia Guardianship Committee about information (about the rights and privileges of the Mennonites that had been given by Emperor Paul the First on September 6, 1800), which was sent to the Krolevetsk District Court.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

10 Jan 1835 to 1 Apr 1835.  6 pages.

 

File 3907.  File concerning 5 Jews who were accused of stealing of 3 horses, a cart, and a team that belonged to Abraham Dick of Einlage.

24 Apr 1835 to 14 Feb 1836.  15 pages.

 

File 3974.  File concerning the Mennonite David Reimer who was accused of stealing of 2 cows that belonged to the settler Peter Taranenko.

12 Jun 1835.  2 pages.

 

File 3989.  File concerning the Mennonite Jacob Fast who hung himself at the age of 16.  He lived on the farm belonging to the Mennonite Johann Cornies.  Katharina Fast with her sons arrived in Russia from Prussia in 1833.

28 Feb 1835 to 7 Aug 1835.  7 pages.

 

File 4024.  File concerning repairs of roads and bridges in the colonies dependent on the New Russia Guardianship Committee.  There is information about the placing of poles and milestones on the lands belonging to the colonies. A report written by the District Mayor of the Molotschna Colonies, Mr. Regier, about the money for the arrangement of bridges and railings.  A draft of a milestone, which was designated for the placing on the high road in the Molotschna Mennonite District (1835).  A draft of a boundary pole, which was designated for the placing on external boundaries of the Molotschna Mennonite District, with a gold inscription:  “The Land of the Molotschna Mennonite Brotherhood” (1835).

These documents are written in Russian and German.

23 Aug 1835 to 8 Oct 1837.  43 pages.

 

File 4035.  File concerning the theft of money and property from the Mennonite Johann Cornies of Ohrloff.

11 Sep 1835 to 15 Jun 1837.  31 pages.

 

File 4044.  File concerning the theft of blacksmith tools from the Mennonite Jacob Neufeld of Franzthal.

25 Sep 1835 to 25 Jul 1836.  4 pages.

 

File 4045.  File concerning the theft of 3 horses from the Mennonite Heinrich Willems of Rosenort.

25 Sep 1835 to 30 Oct 1835.  3 pages.

 

File 4061. File concerning the theft of 3 lids used for cauldrons and 3 pipes from the Tiegerweide distillery.

23 Oct 1835.  2 pages.

 

File 4066.  File concerning a complaint by the foreigner Lazarus Kladov against colonists from the Einlage Colony.

2 Nov 1835 to 20 Nov 1835.  5 pages.

 

File 4094.  File concerning a report from the inspector, Mr. Pelech, to the New Russia Guardianship Committee about public monies in the colonies of the Molotschna (Mennonites and Colonists) District, Berdyansk Region for 1834.  The report was sent for inspection.

16 Mar 1835 to 9 Sep 1836.  4 pages.

 

File 4096.  File concerning a report from the Molotschna Mennonite District Office to the New Russia Guardianship Committee about the spread of silviculture and so forth.  There is information about public incomes from gardening for 1834 (for inspection) and for 1835 (for approval).

23 Jan 1835 to 29 Aug 1836.  6 pages.

 

File 4105.  File concerning financial statements containing information about the colonies of the Molotschna (Mennonites and Colonists) District, Berdyansk Region. There are only 6 pages of documents, 339 pages had been lost.

1834 to 1835.  6 pages.

 

File 4107.  File concerning the enrollment of colonists to different colonies dependent on the New Russia Guardianship Committee for 1835.  Transfers of the colonists from one to another colony.  The Mennonite Abraham Klassen from the Kiev Province was enrolled in the Chortitza Colony.  The Mennonite Kornelius Dick, who arrived in 1835, was enrolled in the village of Grossweide.

5 Mar 1835 to 18 Dec 1835.  28 pages.

 

File 4116.  Statistical information about public monies in the colonies for 1835.  A letter from a member of the Guardianship Committee, Mr. Fadeev, to the New Russia Guardianship Committee regarding the Mennonite Johann Cornies of Ohrloff who had paid his rent for land.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

1 Nov 1835 to 11 Mar 1836.  74 pages.

 

File 4118.  File concerning a report from the inspector, Mr. Pelech, to the New Russia Guardianship Committee about public monies in the colonies of the Molotschna (Mennonites and Colonists) District, Berdyansk Region for 1835.

15 Dec 1834 to 21 Dec 1835.  12 pages.

 

File 4121.  File concerning the taxation of 2 Mennonite families (Gerhard and Heinrich Kopp) from the Molotschna Colonies, who resettled from Friedensdorf to a new village named Konteniusfeld.

5 Jul 1835  1 page.

 

File 4124.  File concerning the Mennonite Johann Regier.  Correspondence from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office, the New Russia Guardianship Committee, and the Taurida and Kherson Province Administrations concerning a search of the Mennonite Johann Regier who had to receive his goods, which were detained on the frontier post, in the Zehanovsk customhouse.  Johann Regier arrived in the Molotschna Mennonite District from Prussia in 1824.

22 Oct 1825 to 23 Nov 1826.  10 pages.

 

File 4127.  File concerning the resettlement of the colonists and Mennonites of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.  The file consists of the following information:

1.      Lists of Mennonite families who wished to resettle; lists of the names of Mennonites who had already resettled; transfers to another village or district.

2.      Transfers of estates from one Mennonite or colonist to another person.

3.      About changes of the registration (Revizskaya skazka):  Johann Pelts of Rosenberg married Maria Tatter, the daughter of Fredrick Tatter, in 1835.  He had been registered as a single man.

These documents are written in Russian and German.

21 Dec 1835 to 12 Oct 1838.  536 pages.
 

File 4128.  File concerning the inheritances of the colonists and Mennonites in the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.

21 Dec 1835 to 28 Jun 1836.  83 pages.

DVD No. 150 

1840 

5299.   About  registering as colonists, transfer of farms and marriages in Ekaterinoslav gubernia. 1.05.1839 – 9.02.1842. 228 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

Correspondence of the Guardianship committee, 1st Department of the Ministry of State Domain, Poltava Civil Governor, Poltava Chamber of State Domain, Ekaterinoslav and Taurida Treasuries, Alexandrovsk Uezd Treasury, overseers of colonies – Pelekh, 2nd okrug, Kirschner, 3rd okrug, Schmidt, 4th okrug, about transfer of colonists from one colony to another:

- Mennonite Jacob Wiens – from Chortitza colony to Bergthal colony (family list);

- Mennonite Jacob Braun from Schoenthal colony to Bergthal (family list);

- Mennonite Jacob Keller from Bergthal colony to Schoenthal.

Investigation documents on confiscation of Paul Loewen’s farm, colony of Sparrau, which was transferred to control of the colony.

 

5314.   About urgent issue of foreign travel passports to colonists. 12.05.1839 -  28.12.1840. 175 pages. Documents in Russian, German and French.

            Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, Pelekh, overseer of colonies of the 2nd okrug, Kirschner, overseer of colonies of the 3rd okrug, and others, about issue of temporary foreign passports to colonists:

- Mennonite David Schellenberg, colony of Tiegenhagen, to Danzig for receiving inheritance;

- Mennonite Jacob Neufeld, colony of Friedensdorf, to Danzig for receiving inheritance;

- Mennonite Johann Gloeckner, colony of Gnadenfeld, to Berlin for receiving inheritance;

- Mennonite Johann Rogalsky, colony of Blumenort, to Danzig for receiving inheritance;

- Mennonite Jacob Penner, colony of Alexanderthal, to Prussian Kingdom for learning craft;

Written undertakings of colonists.

Foreign passports of colonists with marks of border crossings:

- Mennonite David Schellenberg;

- Mennonite David Neufeld;

- Mennonite Johann Rogalsky;

- Mennonite Johann Gloeckner;

- Mennonite Peter Schmidt, colony of Alexanderthal;

- Mennonite Johann Cornies, colony of Orloff.

 

5321. About proposal to buy scales and measures for Chortitza colonies. 28.02.1840 – 15.03.1840. 4 pages. Language is not specified.

Report by Biller, an overseer of colonies of the 1st okrug, and directions of the Guardianship Committee about measures and scales for colonies of Chortitza okrug.

 

5370.   About reregistering of Mennonite Abraham Schmidt from the village of Mikhailina, Kiev gubernia, to colony of Kronsthal, Ekaterinoslav gubernia. 1.09.1840 – 28.06.1844. 30 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

            Includes correspondence with the Guardianship Committee.

 

5396.   About five families of Prussian origin who would like to settle in Molochansk colonies at their own expense and notifying the Minister of State Domain.  28.11.1840 – 10.04.1841. 17 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, 1st Department of the Ministry of State Domain and overseer Pelekh about the settlement of Mennonites in Molochansk Mennonite Okrug:

- Herman Sudermann in the colony of Gnadenfeld;

- Jacob Klassen in the colony of Orloff;

- Jacob Stobbe in the colony of Orloff;

- Jacob Adrian in the colony of Sparrau;

- Johann Neufeld in the colony of Blumenort.

Family lists of Mennonite settlers.

 

5398.   Directions of the Minister of State Domain about submitting information on whether it is possible to settle four families of Prussian subjects in Molochansk colonies. 28.11.1840 -18.12.1840. 4 pages. Language is not specified.

Letter of the 1st Department the Ministry of State Domain and report of the Guardianship Committee about possibility to settle 4 families of Prussian subjects (city of Elbing) in the colony of Landskrone.

 

5401.  Regarding request of Odessa merchant Ludwig Filibert about retaining Molochansk colonist Heinrich Gimsend, Margenau. 14.12.1839-18.04.1840. 10 pages. Language is not specified.

            Petition of Filibert to the Guardianship Committee and correspondence of the Guardianship Committee and Overseer Pelekh regarding transfer of the case to proper legal authorities.

 

5503.   About Artyom Pershin, a man without documents, staying at the house of Mennonite Martens. 9.04.1840. 2 pages. Language is not specified.

A letter by overseer Pelekh about Artyom Pershin, who stayed in the house of Franz Martens without any documents; consideration of the case in Melitopol uezd court and releasing F. Martens of  responsibility.

 

 

5405. About accidents in Taurida gubernia colonies. 22.12.1839 – 16.12.1840. 65 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, Overseer Pelekh, report to the Ministry of State Domain about various accidents: fires, unnatural or sudden deaths of colonists:

- Mennonite Peter Regier (colony of Schonsee);

- Mennonite Jacob Wittenberg (colony of Lindenau);

About conducting investigations of the cases.

 

5515. About Denis Radchenko, a peasant of landowner staff-captain Bykov, staying at the house of colonist Heinrich Wiebe. 30.04.1840 – 6.03.1842. 7 pages. Language is not specified. The file is damaged by fungus.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, Ekaterinoslav board, overseer Biller about sending a representative of the Guardianship Committee for consideration of the case in Ekaterinoslav uezd court regarding Mennonite Heinrich Wiebe (Kanzerovka, Chortitza okrug), (in other documents – Kichkas).

Conclusion of Ekaterinoslav uezd court about releasing H. Wiebe of  responsibility.

 

5541. About Mennonites of Bergthal colony – Jacob Friesen, Peter Sawatsky, Erhardt Janzen and others, selling alcohol. 11.03.1840 – 7.06.1840. 29 pages. Language is not specified.

Report of overseer Kirschner to the Guardianship Committee about submitting a copy of an investigatory case about illegal trade in stolen spirits by Mennonites of the Bergthal colony.

Materials of investigatory case: correspondence of Kirschner, Mariupol office of alcohol taxes, Mariupol Greek court, minutes of evidences by colonists (copies).

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5554. About maintaining a prescribed distance between  taverns and churches in colonies of the Southern krai of Russia. 27.05.1840 – 28.02.1841. 25 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with Ministry of State Domain and overseers Kossovskiy, Pritchenko, Biller, Pelekh, Paruli, Schmidt and Gorbenko about submitting data to drinking houses regarding churches in the colonies within their jurisdiction.

Lists of Lutheran churches and meeting houses with indication of distances to taverns in German colonies of Bessarabia, Chortitza, Berdyansk, Josefsthal, Molochansk colonist and Molochansk Mennonite okrugs.

 

5559. About paying duty for wine produced by Mennonite Johann Faust in the Einlage winery. 25.05.1840 – 18.05.1842. 20 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with Ekaterinoslav gubernia board, Main Office of Alcohol Duties of three New Russia gubernias and Bessarabia oblast about attempt to charge duty from J.Faust, a Mennonite of Chortitza okrug, for manufacture and sale of alcohol in colonies of the Chortitza okrug.

Decree of the Governing Senate about duty-free manufacture and sale of grain alcohol by Mennonites in New-Russia gubernias of November 24, 1841 (a copy).

 

5561. About alleged oppression of people on Kichkas crossing place by colonists residing there. 27.06.1840 – 19.02.1846. 74 pages. Language is not specified. The file is damaged by fungus.

Correspondence of Ekaterinoslav gubernia board, Guardianship Committee, overseer Biller, New Russia and Bessarabia general-governor about complaints of colonists of Chortitza okrug on unauthorized charging of fee by colonists of Einlage colony for using Kichkas crossing of the Dnieper river, about investigation of complaints by policemen and their dismissal.

 

5577. About report of overseer Pelekh on provision by Mennonites of wagons and horses during the passage of the army. 9.01.1840 – 31.01.1841. 6 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee and overseer Pelekh about provision of wagons and horses for the 14th and 15th infantry units when crossing Molochansk colonies.

 

5617. About election and approval in colonies of village elders, schulzes, beisitzers, etc. as well as forest managers in 1840 and church leaders in 1840. 17.10.1839 – 20.12.1840.  311 pages. Documents in German, French, Bulgarian and Russian. The case is damaged by fungus.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with overseers of colonies, Ternovskiy and Radichev village prikaz (office), St.Petersburg Evangelical-Lutheran  consistory, Kishinev church consistory about approval of results of elections of village and okrug elders: “chairmen”, village elders, ober-schulzes, schulzes, amst-beisitzers and beisitzers (in German colonies and okrugs).

Note of translator:  Chortitza, Molochnaya, Radichev and Bergthal Mennonite villages are included as well as colonists’.

Election lists of Molochansk Mennonite okrug. Many Mennonite names with indication of their positions. Oaths of colony officials including Molochansk Mennonite okrug.

DVD No. 151

 
5622. About approval of estimates for the supposed expenses for all colonies which will be required in 1840 from public funds. 10.01.1840 – 4.11.1842. 363 pages. Documents in German and Russian. The file is damaged by fungus.

            Reports of overseers of okrug prikaz (offices) of Berdyansk, Molochansk colonist, Molochansk Mennonite, Chortitza, Mariupol and many others to the Guardianship Committee with attachment of estimates of expenses from public funds for paying salaries to elders, village clerks, guards, etc. in 1840.

It includes reports about results of 1839 and work planned in 1840 on public plantation in Molochansk Mennonite okrug with indication of fruit and forest trees, bushes and seeds.

            Approximate estimates of expenses for development of forestry, horticulture, sericulture and wine-making in Molochansk Mennonite okrug.

 

5624.   About establishment of new volosts and village communities in Ekaterinoslav gubernia. 9.02.1840 – 1.06.1840. 20 pages. Documents in German and Russian.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with the Ministry of State Domain, Ekaterinoslav, Bessarabia and Chernigov State Domain chambers, Radichev Mennonite village office about interference of volost chiefs in the management of the colonies which according to new provisions should be terminated.

 

5629.   About increasing a salary of gardener Rozhinskiy of Mariupol plantation by 28 silver roubles 57 kopecks per year . 11.02.1840 – 31.07.1840. 4 pages. Documents in German and Russian.

A joint report of Kirschner, an overseer of colonies of Mariupol okrug, and Christian Klassen, a Board  member of Mariupol public plantation, about increase of salary to Johann Rozhinskiy, apprentice to a gardener.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with overseer of colonies about settlement of the issue.

 

5637.   On report of overseer Biller about transfer of 30 thousand roubles to Odessa State Commercial Bank for gaining interest. 28.06.1840 – 20.08.1840. 14 pages. Language is not specified.   

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with overseer Biller and Odessa office of State Commercial Bank about transfer of money (item of public sheep-raising) to the Guardianship Committee and depositing it in the bank on the account of Chortitza okrug.

 

5678.   Instructions given to Cook, a financial clerk of the Committee, about entering amounts as credit and debit for settlement of foreign settlers in October 1840. 02.10.1840 – 31.10.1840. 6 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with overseer Pelekh about return of financial debt by Mennonites of Molochansk Mennonite okrug due since 1827 in connection with a church construction.

 

5691. A book about foreign settlers of the Guardianship Committee includes receipt and expenditure of money at different places by different people for 1840. 01.1840 – 2.01.1841. 80 pages. Language is not specified.

Includes data about payment of duty for issue of foreign passports to colonists.

Among names are:

- Mennonite David Schellenberg (colony of Tiegenhagen);

- Mennonite Jacob Neufeld (colony of Friedensdorf);

- Mennonite Johann Gloekner (colony of Gnadenfeld);

- Mennonite Johann Rogalsky (colony of Blemenort).

 

5698. Monthly sheets about local public amounts of money owned by Radichev Mennonites for 1840. 1.02.1840 – 11.12.1840. 50 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

Report of Radichev Mennonite village office to the Guardianship Committee about submitting reports of the circulation of public money in the colony of Radichev.

Annual (1840), and monthly (March, April, August, November and December, 1840), book-keeping sheets of Radichev Mennonite village office with information about credit, debit and balance of public money; reports of the office to the Guardianship Committee about lack of changes in the amounts for January, February, May-July, September and October, 1840.

5701. Information about local public monies of Molochansk Mennonite, colonist and Berdyansk colonist okrugs for 1840. 10.02.1840 – 16.01.1841. 37 pages. Language is not specified.

Reports of overseer Pelekh to the Guardianship Committee about submitting  monthly sheets on amounts credited to colonists of Molochansk Mennonite and colonist okrugs from public funds.

Monthly sheets (January-December, 1840).

 

5702. Regarding the letter of the First Department of the Ministry of the State Domain with rules and forms for drawing up of salary, tax and other duties payable by foreign settlers in 1841. 30.03.1840 – 17.02.1841. 158 pages. Documents in Russian and French.

Includes sheets with number of families, male and female persons as registered by the 8th census  of January 1, 1841, (with indication of the total amount of land) by colonies. Among others are Mennonite colonies of Melitopol uezd.

 

5703.   Instructions of the Guardianship Committee about arrears and overpayment of zemstvo duties, calculations of duties and fiscal debt of colonists of the Crimean okrug from 1832 to 1840. 31.07.1840 – 6.09.1840. 24 pages. Language is not specified.

It includes calculations of zemstvo duty for 1839-1840 in Molochansk Mennonite colonies.

 

5706. Instructions of the Guardianship Committee about registration and reregistration of settlers of the Southern krai of Russia in 1840.  15.12.1839 – 23.11.1840. 88 pages. Language is not specified.

Includes:

-Registration of 62 Mennonite families from Volhynia gubernia in the new established colony of Waldheim (name list of Mennonites who were supposed to get 65 dessiatins of land is attached).

Granting colonist status to people of Prussian descent:

- Mennonite Abraham Derksen in the colony of Orloff (family list);

- Mennonite Jacob Krener [Kroeger?] in the colony of Petershagen (family list);

- Mennonite Gerhard Neufeld in the colony of Elizabetthal (family list);

- Mennonite Franz Konrad  in the colony of Tiegenhagen (family list);

- Mennonite Gerhard Neufeld in the colony of Rudnerweide (family list);

- Mennonite Jacob Penner in the colony of Rosenort (family list);

- Mennonite Johann Hamm in the colony of Liebenau (family list);

- Mennonite Herman Harder in the colony of Gnadenfeld (family list);

- Mennonite Abraham Janzen in the colony of Schoensee (family list);

- Mennonite Peter Schroeter in the colony of Fuerstenau (family list);

- Mennonite Jacob Ekkert in the colony of Halbstadt (family list);

- Mennonites Peter Vogt, Johann Janzen, Friedrich Lange, Johann Rempel in the colony of Gnadenfeld;

Reregistration of colonists:

13 Mennonite families from Molochansk Mennonite okrug to newly established colony of Waldheim (name list)

35 Mennonite families from Molochansk Mennonite okrug to newly established colony of Landskrone (extract from census of 1835);

9 Mennonite families from Chortitza okrug to newly established colony of Schoenthal (extract from census);

27 Mennonite families from Chortitza Mennonite okrug to newly established colony of Heuboden (family lists of 1839);

Mennonite Jacob Wiens from the colony of Chortitza to the colony of Bergthal;

Mennonite Jacob Braun from the colony of Schoenthal to the colony of Bergthal;

 

5710. About diseases and death of cattle in colonies. 18.12.1839 – 12.01.1841. 101 pages. Documents in Russian and German. The file is damaged by fungus.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with overseers of many colonies, including Molochansk about condition of cattle in colonies.

Annual reports with data about death of cattle, horses, sheep and pigs in Molochansk Mennonite and other okrugs in 1839.

 

5715. About report of Biller, an overseer of colonies, on submitting books for approval for Josefsthal and Chortitza okrugs and village offices in their jurisdiction for 1840. 3.01.1840 – 18.01.1840. 3 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with overseer of Josefsthal and Chortitza colonies about delivery to the Guardianship Committee of 12 blank stitched book-keeping books of Josefsthal and Chortitza okrugs for Committee approval and sending them back to villages offices.

 

5717. On reports of Kirschner, an overseer of Mariupol colonies, about submitting for approval debit and credit books for Mariupol okrug and Heuboden Mennonite village office in 1840. 30.12.1839 – 24.02.1840. 5 pages. Language is not specified.

 

5720. On report of Biller, an overseer of colonies, about submitting accounting books for 1839 for auditing.  26.01.1840 – 4.06.1840. 7 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with overseer Biller about auditing of accounting books of village and okrug offices of Josefsthal and Chortitza okrugs – an item of public funds for 1839.

Report of Chortitza okrug office to Biller about submission of data about reasons for exceeding the estimate of a particular item of public funds for December 1839.

 

5722. Regarding public funds belonging to colonies of Saratskiy okrug, Bessarabia oblast, for 1840. 1.02.1840-4.01.1841. 53 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

            Reports by Saratskiy okrug office to the Guardianship Committee containing monthly receipts, expenses and balance for January-December 1840.

DVD No. 152 

 

5723. Information about well-being of colonies in all okrugs for 1840. 31.01.1840 – 23.01.1841. 598 pages. Documents in Russian and German. The file is damaged by fungus.

Includes statistical data of the population size and its movement, about births, deaths and marriages in many colonies including Molochansk Mennonite okrug, Berdyansk, Mariupol, 1st (Chortitza and Josefstal), okrugs and Radichev colonies.

Monthly vital data of births, deaths and marriages in Radichev for 1840.

5728. On report of Molochansk okrug office having data about okrug and village elders and other overseers.  31.01.1840 – 18.04.1841. 20 pages. Documents in Russian and German. The case is damaged by fungus.

Reports of overseers and okrug offices of many colonies including Molochansk Mennonite okrug, Berdyansk and Chortitza okrugs to the Guardianship Committee about submission of name lists and lists of former and present ober-schultzes, schulzes and beisitzers of the above mentioned okrugs.

Name lists of ober-schultzes, schulzes and beisitzers of  many okrugs including Molochansk Mennonite okrug, Berdyansk and Chortitza okrugs (with indication of the commissioning date).

 

5731. Data about sown grain, condition of colonies, etc. Reports of overseers for 1839.  24.12.1838 – 28.12.1840. 292 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

Includes correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, colony overseers and village offices about submission of data with information about condition of bread stores, cattle murrain, economic setting-up and transfer of farms (Mennonite Johann Klaas to Mennonite Cornelius Klaas (Kronsgarten).

Reports of Molochansk Mennonite Society to the Guardianship Committee about development of forestry, horticulture, sericulture, wine-making and improvement of farms and crafts.

Statistical data about condition of colonies with indication of the number of colonists including farmers and craftsmen; amount of land, public buildings, economic buildings and tools with information about farming, sheep-raising, horticulture and sericulture in many colonies including the 1st okrug (Chortitza and Josefstal) for1839.

Statistical data about movement of population (by way of farm transfer, dismissal from colonists), births, deaths and marriages in many colonies including Molochansk Mennonite, Berdyansk and Mariupol for 1839.

Data about sowing and harvesting in Radichev Mennonite colonies.

Data about condition of public stores in many colonies including 1st okrug (Chortitza and Josefstal), Molochansk Mennonite okrugs and Radichev Mennonite colonies (Radichev and Neudorf) for 1839.

Data about amount of grain loaned to colonists of Molochansk Mennonite okrug in 1839.

Name lists of good, satisfactory and poor farmers in colonies of Molochansk Mennonite okrug, colonies of Radichev and Neudorf for 1839.

 

5733. Data of overseer of German colonies about local public funds of Mariupol okrug for 1840. 11.02.1840 – 25.02.1841. 100 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

Reports of overseer Kirschner to the Guardianship Committee about submission of data regarding the circulation of public funds in Mariupol okrug.

Annual, semi-annual and monthly book-keeping reports of debit and credit of public funds in Mariupol okrug in 1840.

 

5734. Data about local public funds owned by colonies of Molochansk Mennonite and colonist okrugs and Berdyansk colonists okrug in 1840.  5.02.1840 - 12.02.1841. 232 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

Reports of an overseer of Molochansk and Berdyansk colonies, Molochansk Mennonite and colonist offices and Berdyansk okrug office about submission of reports. Monthly reports (January- December) and annual reports about credit, debit and balance of public funds in indicated okrugs for 1840 (data for October-November on Molochansk Mennonite okrug is missing).

DVD No. 153 

5735. About students maintained at the expense of public funds for training in the field of sheep-raising and horticulture. 10.02.1840 – 27.02.1841. 6 pages. Language is not specified.

Reports of Molochansk Mennonite okrug office and overseer Pelekh to the Guardianship Committee with attachment of name lists of students taught office work, sheep-raising and horticulture at large sheep-folds and plantations, okrug and village offices of Molochansk Mennonite and colonist okrugs (colonies are indicated).

 

5736. On report of Kirschner, colonies overseer, regarding submission of accounting books for 1839 audit.  11.02.1840 – 23.05.1840. 5 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with an overseer of Mariupol colonies about sending stitched accounting books of Mariupol okrug containing items of taxes, duties and debt to the treasury to the Committee for audit. Auditor’s conclusion about results of audit.

 

5737. On report of Kirschner, colonies overseer,  about submission of accounting books for 1839 for audit.  11.02.1840 – 23.05.1840. 4 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with an overseer of Mariupol colonies about sending stitched accounting books of Bergthal, Schoenfeld and Schoenthal colonies containing items of taxes, duties and local fees to the  Committee.

Auditor’s conclusion about results of audit.

 

5744. Instructions given to financial clerk Cook about entering credit and debit amounts owned by different persons for March, 1840. 13.02.1840-20.07.1840. 50 pages. Documents in Russian, German and Greek.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, including  money payment by Peter Siemens, a Mennonite of Chortitza okrug, for receipt of Gold Medal on Anna’s ribbon.

 

5746. Report of Kossovskiy, overseer of Bessarabia German colonies, regarding submitting of ledgers to the Committee for auditing all funds (receipts and expenses) of Maloyaroslavets okrug and villages offices subordinated to it for 1839. 15.03.1840-21.09.1840. 8 pages. Language is not specified.

            Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with an overseer regarding submitting of ledgers to the Committee for auditing. Conclusion of the Committee on the results of auditing.

 

5749. Regarding report of Radichev Mennonite village office and submitting of ledgers for 1840 for approval. 9.03.1840-1.04.1840. 5 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

            Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, village office of Radichev colony regarding approval of receipts and expenses ledgers of local public funds for 1840.

  

5750. Instructions given to financial clerk Cook about entering credit and debit amounts owned by different persons for April, 1840. 07.03.1840 – 26.01.1843. 41 pages.

Instructions and correspondence of the Guardianship Committee and overseers regarding financial issues. Documents in Russian and German.

Includes:

Issuance of passports for foreign travel to colonists with a purpose of receiving inheritance abroad:

- Mennonite David Schellenberg (colony of Tiegenhagen) to the city of Danzig;

- Mennonite Jacob Neufeld and his wife Sara (colony of Friedrichsdorf) to the city of Danzig;

- Mennonite Johann Gloeckner and his wife Christina (colony of Gnadenfeld) to the city of Berlin;

-Mennonite Johann Rogalsky (colony of Blumenort) to the city of Danzig.

 

5751. On report of Pelekh, colonies overseer, about submission of accounting books for 1839 audit and about circulation of money in Molochansk Mennonite okrug and village offices, under its jurisdiction, during the same year. 4.04.1840 – 25.07.1840. 7 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, overseer Pelekh and village office of Alexanderwohl colony about approval of accounting books of Molochansk Mennonite okrug.

Conclusion of the Guardianship Committee about completed audit.

 

5764. About urgent issuance of passports for foreign travel to colonists. 31.12.1840 – 23.12.1843. 186 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, military governor of Odessa, Black Sea Shipping Company, financial clerk Cook, and overseers of colonies about fulfillment of  Senate decree of March 24, 1841, prescribing people of tax paying status to have both passports for foreign travel and “poster” passports; about paying duties, issue of passports and submission of them to the Committee after return from abroad.

Information about persons going abroad and to Russia:

- Mennonite Peter Regier, (colony of Fuerstenau), to Prussian Kingdom for receiving inheritance; temporary passport for foreign travel;

- Mennonite Abram Toews, (colony of Fuerstenau), to Prussian Kingdom for receiving inheritance; temporary passport for foreign travel;

- Mennonite Abraham Schroeder, (colony of Fuerstenau), to Prussian Kingdom for receiving inheritance; temporary passport for foreign travel;

- Mennonite Abraham Fast, (colony of Petershagen), to Prussian Kingdom for receiving inheritance; temporary passport for foreign travel;

- Mennonite Jacob Funk, (colony of Prangenau), to Marienwerder for receiving inheritance; temporary passport for foreign travel;

- Mennonite Jacob Sudermann, (colony of Rudnerweide), to the city of Danzig for receiving inheritance; temporary passport for foreign travel;

- Mennonite Jacob Penner, (colony of Alexanderthal), temporary passport for foreign travel;

- Mennonite Johann Sudermann, (colony of Sparrau); temporary passport for foreign travel, issued by Prussian government to go to Russia.

1841

5768. About approval of a contract concluded by Radichev Mennonites on lease of 2 water mills. 9.01.1841 – 8.10.1841. 12 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with Radichev Mennonite village office about approval of contract for lease of water mills in the colony.

Contracts on lease of mills concluded between community of Radichev colony with Mennonites Paul Hofer and Matties Kleinsasser.

 

5805. About granting colonist status to foreigners in Ekaterinoslav gubernia. 12.03.1840. – 18.05.1843. 175 pages. Documents in Russian and German. The file is damaged by fungus.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, colony overseers, Taurida and Ekaterinoslav fiscal chambers about prohibition to carry out correspondence with Russian Consulates abroad; about granting a colonist status to foreigners:

- Johann George Klassen in the colony of Rosengart (3rd okrug) (an issue has not been yet decided);

- Mennonite Jacob Klassen (from Prussia) in the colony of Orloff;

- Mennonite Jacob Stobbe (from Prussia) in the colony of Orloff;

- Mennonite Wilhelm Penner (from Prussia) in the colony of Halbstadt;

- Mennonite Johann Sprunk (from Prussia) in the colony of Halbstadt;

- Mennonite Berend Fast (from Prussia) in the colony of Ladekopp;

- Mennonite Johann Fast (from Prussia) in the colony of Tiegenhagen;

- Mennonite Jacob Mantler(from Prussia) in the colony of Lindenau;

- Mennonite Daniel Peters (from Mazovetskaya gubernia, Poland) in the colony of Gnadenfeld;

- Mennonite Heinrich Arend (from Mazovetskaya gubernia) in the colony of Gnadenfeld;

- Mennonite Heinrich Knels (from Mazovetskaya gubernia) in the colony of Gnadenfeld;

- Mennonite Peter Pries (from Poland) in the colony of Gnadenfeld;

- Mennonite Gerhard Block (from Poland) in the colony of Alexanderwohl;

- Mennonite Michael Komrowski (from Prussia) in the colony of Getland;

- Mennonite Aron Dyck (from Prussia) in the colony of Schoenhorst;

- Mennonite Johann Penner (from Prussia) in the colony of Einlage;

- Mennonite Franz Rempel (from Prussia) in the colony of Kronsthal;

- Mennonite Abraham Olfert (from Prussia) in the colony of Neuendorf;

- Mennonite Johann Sawatsky (from Prussia) in the colony of Neu-Osterwick;

- Mennonite Peter Lowen (from Prussia) in the colony of Schoenhorst;

- Mennonite Jacob Penner (from Prussia) in the colony of Schoenhorst;

- Mennonite Klaas Wiebe (from Prussia) in the colony of Kronsthal;

- Mennonite Jacob Neufeldt (from Prussia) in the colony of Neuendorf;

- Mennonite Margaret Rempel (from Prussia) in the colony of Einlage;

- Mennonite Johann Bergman (from Prussia) in the colony of Einlage;

- Mennonite Simon Schroeter (from Prussia) in the colony of Schoenhorst;

- Mennonite Johann Sudermann (from Prussia) in the colony of Einlage;

About transfer of a farm of Mennonite Peter Klassen (colony  of Kronsgarten) to Mennonite Heinrich Planert (colony of Kronsgarten).

Certificates for leaving issued by kingdoms of Wurtemberg and Prussia.

Temporary passports for living in Russia (1837-1840).

Name lists and family lists of Mennonites who came from Prussia to colonies of Chortitza and Mennonite okrugs.

Decisions of colony communities about acceptance of colonists.

Oaths of colonists.

 

5808. About accessing from abroad an inheritance due to Mennonites Heinrich and Jacob Funk, their underage brother Cornelius and sister Anna Funk. 20.03.1841 – 3.09.1842. 21 pages. Documents in Russian and German. The case is damaged by fungus.

Petition of Mennonites Heinrich and Jacob Funk, colony of Prangenau, and Mennonite Abraham Riediger, colony of Prangenau, a guardian of under aged Cornelius and Ann Funk about rendering assistance to them in gaining an inheritance in Western Prussia, town of Torn, from their deceased father Jacob Funk, senior.Various documents related to the case.

DVD No. 154 

 
5846. Exacting taxes from colonists and debts to the state. Pert 2. 9.06.1841-14.05.1842. 478 pages. Documents in Russian and German. The case is damaged by fungus.

            Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, manager of Trans-Danube settlers, Ministry of State Domain, Bessarabia oblast and Ekaterinoslav gubernia boards, Bessarabia, Taurida, Kherson, Chernigov and Ekaterinoslav government chambers, colony overseers and okrug offices regarding exacting of taxes and state debts (Emil Kibare, pastor of Zurichthal Evangelical congregation is mentioned).

            Statistical data of arrears and taxes to be paid by Trans-Danube settlers, Mariupol, Chortitza, Josefsthal, Berezanskiy, Liebenthal, Molochansk (Mennonite and colonist), Kuchurganskiy, Crimean (Rosenthal colony) and Buyalykskiy okrugs.

            Statistical data re taxes paid by German colonists of Bessarabia.

            Statistical data of number of families and males settled in Kherson and Taurida gubernias.

            Extracts from ledgers of the Guardianship Committee re collecting of taxes from colonists and Mennonites in 1841.

            Name register of Alexandrovsk uezd treasury about additional state levies from colonists and Mennonites of Taurida gubernia (by villages).

            Receipts of some uezd treasuries.

            Opinion of the State Council re an additional state levy in New Russia krai (extract from Department of State Domain journal).

            Public resolution of Zultz colony re paying taxes.

 

5855. About colonists of Molochnaya colonies who purchased houses in colonies where they are not registered and do not keep houses in good condition. 24.07.1841 – 2.03.1842. 24 pages. Documents in Russian and German. The case is damaged by fungus.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee and Pelekh, an overseer of the 2nd okrug, about purchase or construction of houses and use of land by Mennonites in various colonies, in which they are not registered during the census. It includes instructions to oblige them to keep acquired houses in order.

Name lists of Mennonites, who purchased or built houses.

Undertakings by Mennonites to keep their houses in order.

 

5895. Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with overseer Biller, Ekaterinoslav, Taurida and Kherson gubernia boards, Kronsgarten village office about holding an action for quit-rent of fishing in the river Kilchen near the colony of Kronsgarten; about conclusion of a contract. 18.09.1841 – 17.12.1841. 17 pages. Language is not specified.

A contract on quit-rent was concluded with city resident Afanasiy Sholokhov.

 

5901. About quit-rent of land of Molochansk colonist okrug – No. 15 and No.16, from 1942 to 1845. 28.07.1841 – 9.04.1842. 45 pages. Documents in Russian and German. The case is damaged by fungus.

It includes correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with overseer Pelekh, Kherson, Taurida and Ekaterinoslav gubernia boards and Odessa police about notification of the auction for land lease in Melitopol uezd near colonies of  Kaiserthal and Darmstadt; about auction results and lease of colonist land by Mennonite Johann Cornies,  Orloff colony.

 

5914. About farming out land of the Molochansk Mennonite okrug in the amount of 20317 dessiatins and 783 sazhens from May 24 1842 to May 24, 1945.  14.11.1841 – 31.10.1843. 55 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with Taurida and Ekaterinoslav gubernia boards, overseer Pelekh and Molochansk Mennonite okrug office about lease of colonist land in Melitopol uezd, Taurida gubernia; about an auction and conclusion of a contract with Mennonite David Cornies, colony of Orloff; about renting land.

Petitions of Mennonites Heinrich Janzen, colony of Schoensee and David Cornies, colony of Orloff, to allow them to take part in auction.

Power of attorney of Johann Cornies issued by him to his brother David Cornies for conclusion of a contract.

Contract. Auction list.

 

5921. About inheritance of Aganetha and Bernhard Rempel, widow Aganetha Fast, Heinrich Toews; Jacob, Johann, Cornelius, Heinrich, Maria and Aganetha Fast; Jacob Lowen and Cornelius Heinrichs. 30.11.11841 – 29.11.1843. 13 pages. The case is damaged by fungus. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the 1st Department of the Ministry of the State Domain, Guardianship Committee, Cook, a financial clerk and overseer Biller about receiving an inheritance from Danzig (Prussia) of Mennonite Peter Toews by Mennonites of Einlage colony: Bernhard Rempel and spouse Aganetha Rempel (geb. Fast), Heinrich Toews, widow Aganetha Fast (geb. Toews) and underage Jacob, Maria, Johann, Cornelius, Aganetha and Heinrich Fast (brothers and sisters).

 

5927.  About approval of two contracts concluded with Radichev office: 1st – on fish pond and 2nd – on water mill rented for four years. 26.11.1841 – 20.01.1842. 8 pages.

Documents in Russian and German.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with Radichev Mennonite village office on approval by the committee of leased water mill on the river of Esman (Asman) and Khotinskiy pond with mouth of Desna river.

Contract for lease of the pond concluded with Radichev Mennonites Paul Glanzer and Jacob Zeter (Cheter, Zscheter, Tscheter [Tschetter]).

Contract on lease of a water mill concluded with Radichev Mennonites Johann Hofer and Johann Wipp (a copy).

5929. About inheritance of Anna Maria Hildebrandt (geb. Adam), a colonist of Borodino colony. 13.12.1841 – 10.09.1845. 15 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, the 1st Department of the Ministry of the State Domain and overseer Kossovskiy of Klyastitskiy okrug office about sending documents to Prussia regarding the case of inheritance of A.M. Hildebrandt and giving inherited money to her.

 

5932. About inheritance received by Mennonites and colonists of Ekaterinoslav gubernia from abroad through the Ministry of the State Domain. 21.12.1840 – 3.07.1842. 366 pages. Documents in Russian and German. The case is damaged by fungus.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with the Ministry of the State Domain, overseers Pelekh, Schmidt, Biller, Kirschner and Kossovskiy, Ekaterinoslav civil governor and Liebenthal okrug office about receiving inheritance from abroad by Mennonites and colonists. About 60 Mennonites are included.

About receipt from Prussia of a package by Mennonite teacher Peter Nikkel, colony of Alexanderwohl.

Powers of attorney, receipts and vital data of Mennonites and colonists receiving inheritance.

 

5933. About getting explanation from elders of Chortitza okrug office in connection with the complaint of Julius Janzen, a Mennonite of Einlage colony, regarding oppressions against him for producing wine. 18.12.1840 – 10.12.1842. 56 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, overseer Biller, Chortitza okrug office regarding consideration of complaint by Mennonite J. Janzen about violations of a contract concluded by him with elders of Chortitza okrug for running a brewery and a winery.

Petition of J.Janzen.

Inventory of buildings and equipment of brewery and winery.

Contracts concluded with J. Janzen and his predecessor Cornelius Heinrichs, colony of Kronsweide (1826, 1830).

DVD No. 155 

5936. About exaction from colonists of taxes, duties and state debt for 1841. 9.02.1840 – 28.11.1842. 416 pages. Documents in Russian and German. The case is damaged by fungus.

Correspondence of the 1st Department of the Ministry of the State Domain, the Guardianship Committee, Butkov, manager of Trans-Danube settlers, boards of Taurida gubernia and Bessarabia oblast, Kherson, Taurida, Ekaterinoslav, Bessarabia and Chernigov Treasury chambers, Odessa office of State Commercial bank, overseer of colonies, including Pelekh, overseer of Molochansk Mennonite colonies, Kirschner, an overseer of the 3rd okrug - Mariupol colonies and Biller – an overseer of the 1st okrug – Chortitza colonies and Radichev village about the state of paying taxes and state debt with submission of statistical data.

Statistical sheets of paid taxes, duties and state debt by Mennonites of Molochansk Mennonite okrug (for 1840) and the remaining amount of state debt as of January 1, 1841.

Statistical sheets of paid taxes, duties and state debt by colonists of Mariupol okrug before 1841.

Statistical sheets of taxes and arrears due by colonists of Mariupol okrug for 1840.

Statistical sheets of due taxes, duties and state debt by colonists of Mariupol okrug by January 1840, January 1941, and remaining amount as of 1841.

Reports to the Guardianship Committee.

Receipts of uezd treasury chambers (copies).

Reports of village offices.

 

5940. About inheritance that colonists received from abroad through Sikarda and Co. Odessa Trade House. 21.12. 1840 – 25.05.1842. 201 pages. Documents in Russian and German. The case is damaged by fungus.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee about receipt by colonists inheritance and letter from abroad.

Includes only 2 Mennonites – Eva Maria and Elisabeth Gok (Koh), colony of Elizabetthal. 

 

5945. On report of Schuitzle, an ober-schulz of Liebenthal okrug office (about signing a contract) that forced Philip Mathias, a colonist of Friedrichsthal colony [probably Friedrichsfeld colony] to deliver a threshing machine to Schuitzle. 9.01.1839 – 27.02.1839. 11 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with overseer Pelekh about report of Ludwig Schuitzle regarding the non-execution of contract terms by Ph. Mathias, who undertook to manufacture a threshing machine and deliver it by October 1, 1838 (the machine was manufactured by Peter Lorenz, colony of Elizabetthal, but because of bad road caused by rains it was not delivered in time.

Contract.

 

5953. About accidents which took place in Taurida gubernia in 1841. 9.01.1841 – 21.12.1842. 82 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with the Ministry of State Domain, overseers Pelekh and Schmidt about carrying out investigations of fires in colonies, sudden death caused by accidents and suicides of colonists. It includes Mennonite Justina Gossen, colony of Blumstein and Mennonite Anna Rempel, colony of Tiegenhagen.

Ruling of Taurida criminal court chamber about amnesty of Margaretha Duz, a colonist from Leitershausen accused of intentionally burning the house of Peter Epp, a Schultz of Blumenort colony (a copy).

 

5958.   On report of overseer Pelekh about urgent fulfillment of his demand that the Perekop Town Police must receive 1020 roubles from resident Srul Shtam in favor of Mennonite Johann Klassen against a promissory note and a receipt. 20.01.1841 – 4.05.1845. 43 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with overseer Pelekh and Taurida gubernia board about a delayed exaction of money from town resident Srul Shtam, which he owes to J. Klassen, a  factory owner, Halbstadt colony, and transfer of the case to Perekop Town Magistrate.

 

5964.   About establishment of gubernia committees for making zemstvo duties equal among residents. About change of tract  crossing the colony of Friedrichsfeld.  30.01.11841 – 30.11.1842. 27 pages. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, Taurida civil governor and overseer Pelekh about establishment of gubernia committees in charge of execution of semstvo duties and the necessity to include representatives of colonists and Mennonites into such Committees; about termination of deporting arrested people through  Friedrichsfeld and transfer of this duty to other settlements.

 

5976.   About improper life of Johann Boldt, a Mennonite of Tiegenhagen colony, who was found stealing. 30.01.1840 – 4.10.1841. 18 pages. Documents in Russian and German. The case is damaged by fungus.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee and overseer Biller about immoral conduct of Mennonite J. Boldt and suspecting him of theft; about a warning by the Guardianship Committee to Jacob Warkentin, a religious Aeltester of Lichtenau church congregation that his interference into civil affairs of Mennonites are illegal.

 

5979.   About issue of temporary passports to colonists of Taurida gubernia in 1841. 3.02.1841 – 20.01.1842. 76 pages. The case is damaged by fungus. Language is not specified.

Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, Taurida Treasury Chamber, overseers Pelekh and Schmidt about submission of monthly sheets of passports circulation and issuance of temporary passports to colonists.

Included are:

- Mennonite Peter Regier (colony of Fuerstenau);

- Mennonite Abraham Toews (colony of Fuerstenau);

- Mennonite Abraham Schroeder (colony of Fischau);

- Mennonite Abraham Fast (colony of Petershagen);         

- Mennonite Jacob Funk (colony of Prangenau);

- Mennonite Johann Suderman (colony of Rudnerweide);

- Mennonite Daniel Peters (colony of Rueckenau);    

- Mennonite Jacob Neufeld (colony of Wernesdorf); 

- Mennonite Thomas Kopp (colony of Muensterberg).

            Petitions of colonists.

 

6003. On request of various office of Taurida gubernia to direct representatives for settlement of matters related to colonists and about submitting certificates confirming their colonist status. 6.03.1841 – 7.03.1842. The case is damaged by fungus. Language is not specified.

            Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, Taurida civil court chamber, Taurida criminal court chamber, Taurida civil governor, overseers Schmidt and Pelekh, and Ekaterinoslav gubernia board about appointing representatives by the Committee for consideration of colonist cases in courts; about delivery of information about colonists and Mennonites being under investigation or about those who applied to the court.

Ruling of Melitopol zemstvo court about the case of a theft of property of Mennonite Franz Isaac (a copy).

 

6138. About freeing of Molochansk Mennonites and colonists of a penalty imposed on them by Melitopol uezd court for the stay of a peasant of count Kozma Gurovich Litta.  24.07.1841 – 5.12.1844. 14 pages. Language is not specified.

            Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee with overseer Pelekh, Taurida civil governor, and Taurida gubernia board about amnesty of Mennonites and colonists of Molochnaya Mennonite and colonist okrugs sentenced to fines and corporal punishments for harboring of a run-away landowner’s peasant, on occasion of the Emperor’s Manifesto of Pardon of April 16, 1841.

 

6146.  About colonists being under court trial in Ekaterinoslav gubernia. 16.07.1841 – 15.01.1842. 17 pages. Language is not specified.

            Reports of overseers Biller and Kirschner regarding submitting data about colonists being under investigation.

            Monthly name lists with information about colonists of Mariupol okrug being under court trial (June-December, 1841).

 

6235. About money due by Ekaterinoslav citizen Joseph Rosenberg to Isaac Braun, a Neuenburg Mennonite. 2.12.1841 – 26.06.1853. 27 pages. A title page is missing. Language is not specified.

            Correspondence of the Guardianship Committee, Ekaterinoslav gubernia board and overseer Biller about exaction of money debt from J.Rosenberg in favor of successors of Mennonite I. Braun, colony of Neuenburg.

            Receipt of J. Rosenberg about money borrowed from I. Braun (1837, a copy).

 

6298. Instructions given to financial clerk of the Guardianship Committee about entering debit and credit of public funds of foreign settlers for November 1841. 31.10.1841 – 18.12.1841. 37 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

            It includes a report by Evdokimov, a Committee member, and overseer Pelekh about quit-rent payment by Mennonite Johann Cornies, Orloff colony, for maintenance of non-settled state land.

 

6300. Instructions given to financial clerk of the Guardianship Committee about entering debit and credit of public funds of foreign settlers for December 1841. 25.11.1841 – 30.12.1841. 27 pages. Documents in Russian and German.

            It includes reports and petitions and also a name list of colonists of Mariupol okrug who paid back a part of the debt plus interest with indication of the remaining debt amount.