Johann Georg Eichhorn, a single weaver from Suhl in Saxony, arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the galliot Adler with skipper Paul Adam Drath at the helm.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 3 July 1767 where he is recorded with his new wife Maria Margaretha on the 1767 census in Household No. 54.
Widow Maria Margaretha Eichhorn is recorded on the 1798 census of Urbach in Household No. Ur20.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Eichhorn family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ur20.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 282.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): 380.
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