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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... captive . It is hoped that this book will find its way into many homes in Pennsylvania , and there arouse sufficient local pride , and love and respect for ancestry to complete the movement . W. M. ZECHMAN . READING , Pa . , September ...
... captivity . The people of the whole county , especially the northern part , were for years in a state of insecurity , and their sufferings were great . The story given below is only one of many similar ones . Among the Palatinate ...
... captives , and the buildings burned ! What an awful sight ! What a fearful change , the work of a few min- utes ! The once happy family was partly murdered , partly captured , and the remainder homeless . What must have been the ...
... captives had been collected , when they entered upon their journey . Many were too young to walk , and these were tied ... captive . Regina was taken about one hundred miles farther , where she and a little girl , which she had to carry ...
... captives with clothing as far as possible . The captive children were then brought to Carlisle , Pa . , and notice published in the papers that parents whose children had been taken captive during the war , should come and claim them ...