Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta

The Guardianship Committee of Foreign Settlers in South Russia

Compiled November 2002 by Tim Janzen & Tatyana Makarenko

Odessa Archives
Fund (Fond) 6, Inventory 1: 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.

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