Johann Elias Eckhardt, a single stocking maker, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Elias Eckhardt is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
It is not known in which colony he settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Elias Eckhardt came from the German region of Zweibrücken.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Eckhardt family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5184.
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