Starting in 1798, the recruitment of settlers for the newly won territories from the second and third partition of Poland took place: South Prussia and New East Prussia.

• The Prussian state transferred colonist positions on newly established state domains primarily to many southwestern German emigrants. Probably among them were some later Krasna settler families, e.g. Deichert, Moldenhauer, Milbrat, Maas.
• But also private landowners settled German colonists. Wilhelm Friedrich Erbprinz von Nassau-Oranien, related to the Prussian rulers, acquired several estates in South Prussia in the Posen Chamber Department between 1793 and 1798, including the Czeszewo estate (Wreschen district) with the villages and outworks of Mikuszewo, Chlebowo, Radzitowko and Orzechowo.
  

He settled colonists from his native Nassau region on his estates (including some of our ancestors. For more on Orzechowo and the Krasna ancestors who settled there, see section Krasna people from Orzechowo (South Prussia)