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The Guardianship Committee of Foreign Settlers in South Russia

Compiled March 2002 by Tim Janzen & Tatyana Makarenko

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.

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).

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.

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