Johann Georg Eckhardt, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Maria Katharina, and son Johann Joachim (age 13) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schulz in Household No. 18. They had arrived in Schulz on 8 September 1766.
Melchior Eckhardt, presumed son of Joachim Eckhardt, from Herzog and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rohleder in Household No. Rl13 along with his widowed mother.
The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Eckhardt came from the German region of Hessen-Kassel.
- 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): Rl13.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 123.
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