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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... born and are buried - as well on my father's as on my mother's side . " The Lutheran Pastor Eisenhart , of Gross - Aspach , writes for us , February 17 , 1871 , from whose letter we extract as follows : " I herewith send you the Weiser ...
... born and reared in the town of his ancestry , Gross- Aspach . Following the humble trade of a baker in early life , he succeeded by diligence and self - culture to attain to the position and office of " Schuldheisz , " or American ...
... born , etc. ” ; and as he never , on any occasion , among the many that called forth his signature , records his name more largely , the public naturally took and tenaciously held to plain Conrad Weiser . Whether it was merely ...
... born there . And besides him , some of his brothers and sisters must have been born in Afstaedt , namely : Maria Catherine , Anna Margaret , Anna Magdelena , Maria Sabina - the fifth child would then be John Conrad . All these were born ...
... born and baptized in some certain place . His name appears on the Baptismal Record in Gross - Aspach as that of the fifth child born to John Conrad and Anna Magdalena Weiser , without date or place , as before mentioned . Eisenhart ...