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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... seem constantly to detect a sigh- ing after her . This is an evidence of the amiability of his nature , which even the savages could feel in later years . But might not that excellent mother's longer stay on earth have softened ...
... seems that the opening and closing items of the relation are correct , whilst the important omission that he did not remain at Tulpehocken , leaves us under a wholly wrong impression . It has ever been a saying , on what authority we ...
... seems , is no longer to be distinguished among the many in that locality . The Rev. Dr. C. H. Leinbach and son , and Louis A. Wollenweber , Esq . , of Womelsdorf , have searched for it in vain , doubtless because a stone is want- ing or ...
... seems , was born there . And besides him , some of his brothers and sisters must have been born in Afstaedt , namely : Maria Catherine , Anna Margaret , Anna Magdelena , Maria Sabina - the fifth child would then be John Conrad . All ...
... " This time , it seems , he executed his design , since we find him no later under his father's roof . We to my are sorry that Conrad Weiser left this portion of his CONRAD WEISER . 39 CHAPTER X Conrad Weiser and His Step-Mother.