Christian Kühn, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
Christian Kin [?], his wife Rebeka, and [step-?]son Johann (age 2) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Michael [sic] Kühn, a farmer, his wife Rebecca, and son Johann (age 2½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Cäsarsfeld in Household No. 16. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Michael Kühn came from the German village of Brünn.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kühn
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