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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... Step - Mother ....... CHAPTER XI . 22 24 28 31 ..... ...... 35 ....... 39 Conrad Weiser's Brothers and Sisters - His Occupation - His Marriage- His Departure for Pennsylvania ..................... . CHAPTER XII . Conrad Weiser's Advent ...
... step - mother's entrance into the household , the strange request of Quag- nant was acquiesced in . Here we must , as we also happily may , allow him to tell his own experience : " I went accordingly , on my father's request . I endured ...
... is , perhaps , best qualified to become a historian . Is not Holy Writ a photograph of history ? History does repeat itself , but not so as to be a mere tau- tology . CHAPTER X. CONRAD WEISER AND HIS STEP - MOTHER . 38 THE LIFE OF.
Clement Zwingli Weiser. CHAPTER X. CONRAD WEISER AND HIS STEP - MOTHER . When Conrad had attained to his fifteenth year , his step - mother entered the household , in 1711. We cannot tell her name . She was a German emigrant , and of the ...
... step - child feels itself fully licensed to berate its step - mother . By what style of exegesis a step - mother is excluded from the embrace of the first command with promise , we know not . Certain it is that step - mothers bear a ...