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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... here and there over the province . But Weiser could not trust any longer . Whilst his son was coming forward and assumed a conspicuous part , the elder could not fit himself into the existing circumstances . 26 THE LIFE OF.
... 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 know not , that it had been his intention to commence the world anew on ...
... Whilst I , in advance , return my thanks for the desired contributions , and for the return of the enclosed slip , I embrace the opportunity , at the same time , of sending the warmest greetings of the inmates of the parsonage in Gross ...
... Whilst we would certainly expect such a father to consider duly his surroundings and rela- tions , ere he leads any " strange woman " to his hearth and heart , yet , when the measured step has been taken , we will honor him all the more ...
... whilst he was teaching rudiments to his wards . Conrad Weiser was eminently a self - made man , so far as this is possible for one . Here , too , Conrad Weiser opened his own family his- tory . Of this event he speaks plainly : " In ...