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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... Death ... ....... CHAPTER VIII . John Conrad Weiser , Junior - His Name - Birth - Place - Baptism ........... CHAPTER IX . Conrad's Arrival in America - His Stay with the Maqua Indians CHAPTER X. Conrad Weiser and His Step - Mother ...
... Death Officially Announced - 1754- 1760 ... CHAPTER XVI . ............ 77 Conrad Weiser's Failing Health - His Death - His Burial - Place ............. CHAPTER XVII . Conrad Weiser as a Religious Character ...... ............... CHAPTER ...
... DEATH . About this time , 1723 , His Excellency , William Keith , Baronet Governor of Pennsylvania , had been staying in Albany . Hearing of the unrest of the Germans in that province and anxious to draw them into his own , he lost no ...
... death in the presence of his weeping children and grandchildren . ” — ( Rupp's translation . ) His age is estimated at 86 years . Thus ends the long , active life of John Conrad Weiser , Senior . After an almost unbroken pilgrimage of ...
... death of a Chief among the Onondagos , he suggests a visit of condolence , which he was accordingly ordered to perform , in September . This being a very critical time , the traffic in liquor which the traders carried on for pelf's sake ...