Leonhard Kuhn, a weaver (Leineweber), his wife Anna, and daughter Maria (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Leonhard Kuhn, a cloth weaver (Tuchweber), his wife Magdalena, and daughter Maria (age 5) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 40.
It is not known in which colony they eventually settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Leonhard Kuhn came from the German region of Runkel. The 1767 census records that Leonhard Kuhn came from the German village of Runkel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kuhn family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 679.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 213.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5399.
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