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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... died in 1721 ; and also that of John Conrad Weiser , who is des- ignated a ' baker ' in handicraft , as well as distinguished by the title of Corporal . " * From the same source we learn that a certain Frederick Weiser , of the direct ...
... died quite young . Eisenhart informs us that only twelve names are enrolled , though in the mortuary notice it is distinctly mentioned in these words : " Anna Magda- lena Weiser died in the forty - third year of her life — the mother of ...
... dying , I am Thine . ' ” Her religious nature was largely implanted and per- petuated in her son , as we shall more fully learn in these pages . The doctrine that ascribes all the noble qualities . and virtue of a child to the mother is ...
... having begged or bought their outfit , and arrived in London poor , strange and helpless , only to find that good Queen Anne had died . Hunter and company had likewise despatched their agents to England 3 CONRAD WEISER . 25.
... died at sea . Nothing daunted , the remaining two petitioned anew , and succeeded at last in having an order issued to the newly commissioned Governor , William Burnet , to grant 66 vacant lands to all the Germans who had been sent to ...