Johann Georg Kuhn from Neunkirchen in the area of Nassau-Weilburg & Elisabetha Margaretha Moser from Eschbach in the area of Riedesel were married on 21 April 1766 in the City Lutheran Church of Friedberg.
Johann Georg Kuhn, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Johann Georg Kuhn is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Straub on 12 July 1767. Elisabeth died on 1 November 1767. Widower Johann Georg Kuhn is recorded on the 1767 census of Straub in Household No. 53.
Widower Georg Kuhn and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Straub in Household No. Sr18.
Georg Kuhn, his son Tobias, and grandson Karl heinrich (age 1) are recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 18 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Neu-Straub [year not recorded].
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Kuhn came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Kuhn came from the German village of Neukirchen in the Nassau-Weilburg region.
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 18).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 282.
- 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): Sr18.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #325.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 242.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2057.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2057.
Brent Mai