Conrad Weiser lived part of the time for six years at Ephrata Cloister, a Protestant monastic community in Lancaster County.
18 Facts About Conrad Weiser
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Conrad Weiser's motto was Jesus I live for thee, I die for thee, thine am I in life and death.
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Conrad Weiser senior moved his family to the Schoharie Valley, south of the Mohawk River, earlier than that.
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When Conrad Weiser was 16, his father agreed to a chief's proposal for the youth to live with the Mohawk in the upper Schoharie Valley.
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An oral tradition holds that Conrad Weiser met Shikellamy while hunting.
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Conrad Weiser impressed the Pennsylvania governor and council, which thereafter depended on his services as an interpreter.
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Conrad Weiser persuaded the Iroquois not to send any war parties south in the spring, but failed to convince them to send emissaries to parlay with the southern tribes.
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In 1742, Conrad Weiser interpreted at a treaty meeting between the Iroquois and English colonials at Philadelphia, when they were paid for the land purchased in 1736.
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Conrad Weiser ordered them to remove their settlements to either Wyoming or Shamokin village.
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In 1744, Conrad Weiser acted as the interpreter for the Treaty of Lancaster, which was agreed to by representatives of the Iroquois and the colonies of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.
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Conrad Weiser arrived at a treaty of friendship between Pennsylvania and these tribes.
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In 1750, Conrad Weiser traveled again to Onondaga, where he found the political dynamics in the Six Nations had shifted.
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Early in the summer of 1754, on the eve of the eruption in the colonies of tensions from the Seven Years' War, called the French and Indian War in North America, Conrad Weiser was a member of a Pennsylvania delegation to Albany.
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Conrad Weiser's wife lived there only a few months before returning to their farm.
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Conrad Weiser visited her frequently enough to father four more children.
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Conrad Weiser drew the plan for the town of Reading in 1748, was a key figure in the creation of Berks County in 1752, and was appointed to serve as its chief judge until 1760.
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Conrad Weiser was a teacher and a lay minister of the Lutheran Church, and one of the founders of Trinity Church in Reading.
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Conrad Weiser's will bequeathed about 4,000 acres and part of his farm to Berks County.