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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... Pastor Eisenhart , of Gross - Aspach , writes for us , February 17 , 1871 , from whose letter we extract as follows : " I herewith send you the Weiser lineage from the earliest date within my reach . Our Church books extend back but to ...
... Pastor Loci in 1697 epitomized , from memory and tradition , the names of all the surviving members of the congregation . On this roll the name of John Michael Weiser appears , who died in 1721 ; and also that of John Conrad Weiser ...
... Pastor Eisenhart's letter , Conrad Weiser's record , and the sayings of an eye - witness and living descendant , we are safe in regarding Gross - Aspach as the cradle - place of Conrad Weiser's ancestry , and that ancestry as of some ...
... Pastor Muhlenberg : " In the year 1746 came my wife's grandfather to my house ; he had resided in New York since 1710 , and lately on the borders of New England . He had left that country on account of the dangers which he apprehended ...
... Pastor Eisenhart deciphered and forwarded . That reads : " John Conrad . " The date and place of birth are , however , not noted with the entry of his name . This want Conrad sup- plies in his autobiography . He tells us that he was ...