Jakob Burgardt, a single turner, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
It is possible that this is the same Burgardt who settled in Kaneau.
Jacob Burchhardt (age 18) is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Jakob Burgardt, a single farmer (age 18), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 70.
In 1785, Jakob Burgardt and his family moved from Kaneau to Schwed.
Jakob Burgardt from Kaneau and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwed in Household No. Sw06.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Burgardt came from the German village of Eklavstein [?].
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Sw06, Mv1130.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 217.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4747.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): 4958.
Brent Mai