Hixt (Huck)
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Hixt (Huck)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
Widow Katharina Hixt, a farmer's wife, and her son Johann Adam (age 20) settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.
The 1767 census records that Katharina Hixt came from the German region of Isenburg.
Sources:
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Hk10.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 146.
Researcher(s):
Brent Mai