The Guardianship Committee of Foreign Settlers in South Russia
Compiled March 2002 by Tim Janzen & Tatyana
Makarenko
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.
- 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.
- Complaint about the Mennonite Mr. Toews from Axinia Jukova, written
in the name of Alexander the First.
- Petition from Gersha Bloch to the Ekaterinoslav District Police
with a complaint against the Mennonite Johann Regier; an explanation
from Mr. Regier.
- Petition from the Mennonite Peter Loewen and the promise of Christian
Heyne to pay his debt to Loewen.
- 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.
- Petition from J. Toews about the announcement and the decision of
the Guardianship Office about this matter.
- 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.
- 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.
- Report from the Chortitza District Office about non-recognition
of this debt.
- Report from the Inspector of Molotschna Colonies Mr. Ikskul about
the return of Mr. Peters to Prussia.
- 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.
- 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.
- Reports from the Chortitza District Office; report from Mr. Develdeev
to the Guardianship Office; and instructions from the Guardianship
Office about this case.
- Report to the Guardianship Office from the Ekaterinoslav District
Treasury.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- Petition from Mr. Kolesnikov to the Guardianship Office about his
lost money and about its embezzlement by Peter Neustaedter of Einlage.
- 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.
- Offer from S. X. Contenius to the Guardianship Office with a request
for information about the sowing of grain crops in each colony.
- Note of instruction about governing the colonies.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- Reports from the Chortitza District Office about the dispatch of
packages to S. X. Contenius in Odessa.
- 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.
- Report from the Chortitza District Office about taking into account
orders from the Guardianship Office regarding the transmission of
mail.
- 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.
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