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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... Chief of the Colony at Livingstone Manor ...... CHAPTER V. Conrad's Father Chief of the Colony at Schoharie CHAPTER VI . ............. Conrad Weiser's Father the Defender of the Rights and Liberties of his Countrymen at Schoharie ...
... Chief Magistrate of a district , somewhat beyond a Justice * The pastor alluded to bore the name of HEGELE . He was subsequently deposed from the ministry for engaging in the very unclerical business of a wine merchant . of the Peace ...
... chiefs of the Mohawk Indians , who constituted an embas- sage to the British government for the purpose of asking aid against French aggressions , saw and pitied - yes , pit- ied ! —this perishing mass of men , women and children , They ...
... advance of the Palatines ? Neither in suffering nor in patience did the English excel the German pilgrims . We hail not the former less , but the latter more . CHAPTER IV . CONRAD'S FATHER CHIEF OF THE COLONY AT 18 THE LIFE OF.
Clement Zwingli Weiser. CHAPTER IV . CONRAD'S FATHER CHIEF OF THE COLONY AT LIVING- STONE MANOR . Queen Anne had directed , with the acquiescence of the benevolent Mohawk Chiefs , that the goodly tract , on which Newberg and New Windsor ...