After Catherine the Great issued her Manifesto which invited Germans to immigrate to Russia, Johann David wanted to immigrate to Russia, but his wife did not want to leave Germany. This is one of the rare times when a couple probably divorced.
By 1766, Johann David Bleichroth, Lutheran, a farmer from Pfalz, shows up in the Kulberg Reports on page 212. He is traveling under document #3202 as a single male. He departed with others from Luebeck and arrived in St. Petersberg on 08 August 1766.
Although I could not find a divorce record for the couple, Juliana Sophia Müller had evidently remarried by that same time to Johann Martin Zimmermann and the couple had their first child in December of 1766. The couple went on to have three more children.
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Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Ancestry.com. Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
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"Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NC58-F88 : 28 November 2014), Johann David Bleichroth in entry for Johann Philipp , 26 Oct 1762; citing Speyer, Pfalz, Bavr, Germany; FHL microfilm 193,140.
Pleve, Igor, Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766, "Reports by Ivan Kulberg," Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation, Saratov State Technical University; Published in Saratov, Russia, 2010; page 212, Johann David Bleichroth.
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