Johann Georg Eichhorn, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Georg Eichhorn is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He arrived 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.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Eichhorn came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Suhl in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Eichhorn family among the Volga German colonies.
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- 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.
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Brent Mai