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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... records and events of his day , deserves special mention . " Prof. I. Daniel Rupp , the antiquarian and dweller among the Manes , has frequently revived his name in his numerous writings . Geo . F. Baer , Esq . , of the Reading Bar ...
... record of his life , as we find it enshrined in the facts , events and deeds of a long , steady , unostentatious and ... Records , the Hallische Nachrichten , the numerous Monographs of I. D. Rupp , and a gathering up of the floating ...
... records were accordingly destroyed . I may then ascend no higher , notwithstand- ing my anxiety to serve you . The Pastor Loci in 1697 epitomized , from memory and tradition , the names of all the surviving members of the congregation ...
... record , and the sayings of an eye - witness and 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 ...
... record in his private journal of this tenor : " Give thanks to the Lord , for His mercy endureth forever . Let the redeemed of the Lord say so , whom He hath redeemed , and gathered them out of the lands , east and west , north and ...