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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... living descendant , we are safe in regarding Gross - Aspach as the cradle - place of Conrad Weiser's ancestry , and that ancestry as of some age and honorable . The numerous descendants of our venerable hero , scat- tered as they are ...
... living representatives and descendants there . On the first day of May , A. D. 1709 , she died in the forty - third year of her life . The primal sorrow of her sex carried her from the bosom of her large family into eternity , when ...
... living or 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 ...
... living freight , the rude construction of sailing vessels and the season of the year , we cannot well exaggerate the misery and suffer- ing of our Palatinate forefathers . And yet Conrad , who having been but thirteen years old at the ...
... Living- stone Manor by the following autumn , with the malicious design of owning and possessing living property . Hardly had the locating been effected , ere they imposed an annual ground rent for ten acres on every separate family ...