Georg Mohr (age 42), a farmer, his wife Anna Barbara Herd (age 31), and son Johann Marx (age 18) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 10 September 1765.
Johann Georg Mohr, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Bauer on 20 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.
The 1765 Worms list records that Georg Mohr came from the German village of Walldorf. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Mohr came from the German village of Walldorf in the Kurpfalz region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 115-116 (#077-079).
- 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): Br56, Br57.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 127.
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