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- 1858-1859 (Creation)
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353 pages
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Settlement of 450 Mennonite families who came from Prussia and settled on Samarsk-Stavropolsk area. Petitions requesting permission for the Mennonite families to enter Russia; contracts stating the conditions under which Mennonites from Prussia will be permitted to settle in Russia; registers of land provided for the new arriving settlers. Infortion about the methods of taxation of newly arriving Mennonites; lists of rights and responsibilities of foreign setters in Samarsk Estate; permission for the General Consulate in Danzig to distribute passports for the Mennonites emigrating to Russia; lists of the first 15 families who entered Russia and some other 75 families, settled on Samarsk-Stavropolsk grounds. A few documents in this section are in German.
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Lists of Immigrants to the Mennonite Samara Colonies, 1859–1863 is posted at mennonitegenealogy.com