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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... Colony of Pennsylvania than Conrad Weiser . Had he lived in New England , he would have been remem- bered long ago in marble , story and song ; but , because he lived in Pennsylvania , he is forgotten even by his own people . The very ...
... Colony at Livingstone Manor ............ CHAPTER V. Conrad's Father Chief of the Colony at Schoharie CHAPTER VI . ................. 19 Conrad Weiser's Father the Defender of the Rights and Liberties of his Countrymen at Schoharie ...
... colony , " says the Schwabische Merkur und Kronik , " stood John Conrad Weiser . " National calam- ity drove him a voluntary exile abroad . Domestic afflic- tion , too , had but two months earlier embittered his cup . And may not , at ...
... 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.
... colony . Having anchored at New York on the 17th day of June , 1710 , the conspirators removed the Germans to Living- stone Manor by the following autumn , with the malicious design of owning and possessing living property . Hardly had ...