The Life of (John) Conrad Weiser, the German Pioneer, Patriot, and Patron of Two RacesJohn Conrad Weiser was among very few colonial settlers to achieve fluency in Native American languages, working for decades as an interpreter and peacemaker between European settlers and native tribes. The services rendered by Conrad Weiser were immensely important to the colonists of North America. He spent time living with the Maqua tribe, learning their customs and culture, and achieving supreme command of their language. When disputes arose, Weiser was called upon - on several occasions, his mediation and diplomacy prevented disagreements from descending into violence. In maturity, he served as Superintendent of the Indian Bureau; an agency which promoted peaceful cooperation between Native Americans and white Europeans. This biography charts Weiser's humble beginnings in Germany, his boyhood emigration to America, and his first communications and residence with the Maqua. His greatest successes as interpreter and promoter of peaceful understanding are related in detail. Strongly revered for decades after his death in 1760, George Washington himself revisited Weiser's gravesite in 1793 to remember his contributions. Weiser remains a pivotal figure in the history of colonial America, and his house in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania is today a museum dedicated to study of the era. The author of this biography, Clement Zwingli Weiser, was a descendent keen on family research, who lived at the turn of the 20th century. |
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... America , " speaks of his sig- nificance in these words : " One man , whose name figures so largely in the original records and events of his day , deserves special mention . " Prof. I. Daniel Rupp , the antiquarian and dweller among ...
... America - His Stay with the Maqua Indians CHAPTER X. Conrad Weiser and His Step - Mother ....... CHAPTER XI . 22 24 28 31 ..... ...... 35 ....... 39 Conrad Weiser's Brothers and Sisters - His Occupation - His Marriage- His Departure for ...
... America , which is not an outgrowth of Conrad , and through him a branch from the original trunk . This humble sketch will afford them the means , however spare , of knowing the quarter of their earthly origin , as well as the period of ...
... dearest associations and traditions ; and the fresh tombs of his faithful and pious wife and lit- tle ones all these for North America - the Wilderness CONRAD WEISER . 15 CHAPTER III The Exodus of Conrad Weiser's Father.
... America , the fabled land of promise ? Had not Hol- landers , Swedes , Swiss ; Lutherans , Reformed , Mennon- ites , Quakers , all these opened the way already since 1613 ? Could not Penn and Pastorius , and others , be trusted ? A ...