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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... honored dwellers in the parsonage at Kueppingen , and on the score of old friendship , subscribe myself very respectfully , " GROSS - ASPACH , Feb. 10 , 1871 . " Your most obedient , PASTOR EISENHART . " Eisenhart says , in his letter ...
... honor him all the more for asserting , in spirit and conduct , that he does not intend the spyder - and - fly phi- losophy to animate the life of his home . We have a suspicion , from the manner in which Con- rad entangles his father ...
... honored March , 1732 , for £ 3 , 13s . , 5d . , for ser- vices rendered to the Shawnese Indians and the province . But the way was now opening for a more public and significent station . In the month of August , 1732 , the Six Nations ...
... honor of the man , that " because the men were not only very acceptable to the Indians , as appeared by their late recommendation of them , but likewise seemed to be persons of truth and hon- esty , all due encouragement should be given ...
... honor's commands , but could wish they might have been delayed till after Court , where my presence by many is required on some particular ac- counts . But as the command is pressing and cannot be delayed , I am prepared to set out to ...