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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... herewith send you the Weiser lineage from the earliest date within my reach . Our Church books extend back but to 1693. During that year the parson- 2 CHAPTER I Conrad Weiser's Remote Ancestry and Native Place............ Page.
... churches the triune characteristic of our forefathers ' advent . Robert Hunter , Governor of New York , and Robert Livingstone , a wealthy landlord of the province , however , knew too well how to hold the emigrants in sus- pense and ...
... church . The tomb , it seems , is no longer to be distinguished among the many in that locality . The Rev. Dr. C. H. Leinbach and son , and Louis A. Wollenweber , Esq . , of Womelsdorf , have searched for it in vain , doubtless because ...
... church in Kuep- pingen , on the 12th day of the same month and year . Kueppingen was the nearest church town to Afstaedt . Pastor Eisenhart had the goodness to address a letter of CONRAD WEISER . 31 CHAPTER VIII John Conrad Weiser ...
... church books , since he is minded to frame a Genealogical Tree , and to arrange the chain of his ances- tors . I find , however , that one of the chief characters in line had resided in Afstaedt , viz : John Conrad Weiser , who is ...