The Life of (John) Conrad Weiser, the German Pioneer, Patriot, and Patron of Two RacesD. Miller, 1899 - 140 頁 John 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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... Anna Magdalena Uebele - not Webele , as it is usually written . This wor- thy woman was a native of the same place . We are told that the name is still worn by living representatives and descendants there . On the first day of May ...
... Anna Margaret , Anna Magdelena , Maria Sabina - the fifth child would then be John Conrad . All these were born prior to 1699. During this year the family seems to have taken up its residence in this place again . I ask , accordingly ...
... Anna Magdalena Weiser , without date or place , as before mentioned . Eisenhart surmises the five eldest children to have been born at Afstaedt during the father's temporary residence there . An intelligent German informs us that ...
... Anna Eve ; and was given in marriage by Rev. John Frederick Hæger , Reformed clergyman , on the 22d of November , in my father's house , at Schoharie . " * The maiden name of his wife we have never found mentioned ; nor has any one else ...
... Anna Eve Weiser as a full - blooded Palatine woman . It is easy to account for the rise and onward flow of the story of Conrad Weiser's Mohawk wife . His silence touching her patronymic made it necessary for his posterity to go in ...