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	Conrad Weiser
		Conrad Weiser (1696-1760) was a German pioneer who flourished in Pennsylvania during the eighteenth century.
		He was born to Johann Conrad Weiser in the German state of Württemberg on November 2, 1696.
		Conrad and Anna's daughter Maria was married to Henry Muhlenberg, and two of their grandsons had important roles in gaining independence for the United States.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Conrad_Weiser.html (343 words)

	Conrad Weiser Biography
		Conrad Weiser was born November 2, 1696, in the German principality of Wurttemberg.
		The Weiser family settled on the New York frontier and in the winter and spring of 1712-1713, young Conrad resided with neighboring Mohawks to learn the language of the Iroquois and serve as a go-between for the German community.
		Movements to honor Weiser's considerable accomplishments culminated in the establishment of the Conrad Weiser Memorial Park by the Conrad Weiser Memorial Park Association in 1928.
	www.berksweb.com /weisertext.html (691 words)

	Conrad Weiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1744, Weiser acted as the interpreter for the Treaty of Lancaster, between representatives of the Iroquois and the colonies of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.
		Conrad Weiser was able to negotiate one of the more successful, in which some lower-level chiefs deeded to the colony most of the land remaining in present-day Pennsylvania, including the southerwestern part, still claimed by Virginia.
		Conrad Weiser Area School District in western Berks County serves the townships of South Heidelberg Township, Heidelberg Township, North Heidelberg Township, and Marion Township, and the boroughs of Wernersville, Robesonia, and Womelsdorf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conrad_Weiser (1816 words)

	History of Conrad Weiser Homestead
		Conrad Weiser was born in Astaat Germany in 1696.
		Weiser’s knowledge of the Iroquois was immediately employed, as an Oneida Iroquois, Shikellamy, enlisted Weiser’s abilities as a diplomat to negotiate a series of land ownership treaties between the Pennsylvania colonists and the Indians.
		Conrad Weiser’s body currently resides in a family burial plot to the west of what was believed to have been his house in the Tulpehocken area.
	www.conradweiserhomestead.org /history.htm (669 words)

	Conrad Weiser Page One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Weiser lived in the early 1700s, when tensions and confrontations were escalating among neighboring English colonists, Native American, and French settlers.
		Weiser was born in the village of Affstate in Wurttemberg, Germany, on November 2, 1696.
		Weiser prospered in the Pennsylvania colony, building a tanner, engaging in surveying, and investing in land.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/weiser/page1.asp?secid=31 (531 words)

	National Park Service - Colonials and Patriots (Conrad Weiser Home) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Conrad Weiser, peacemaker among the Indians, contributed largely to the rapid advance of the 18th-century frontier and thereby to the development of the English Colonies.
		Weiser saw the Indian problem as one common to all the Colonies, not to be solved by the separate efforts of the Provinces.
		Weiser's later career, including a military command in the French and Indian War, lacked the significance of his earlier work, but the Indian alliances he had helped to form were an important factor in England's victory over France in the climactic struggle for North America.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/colonials-patriots/sitec39.htm (443 words)

	Virtual Tour and Map of Conrad Weiser Homestead
		Between 1926 and 1928, the mortar was repointed on the Weiser House to somewhat cloak the obviousness of the partition.
		One of the greatest hindrances in determining the exact age of the Weiser House and its components is that the vast majority of the inside of the building was replaced in the early 1900’s.
		Conrad Weiser is buried atop of the small hill to west of his house.
	www.conradweiserhomestead.org /virtualtour.htm (1509 words)

	Conrad Weiser
		Weiser arrived in the settlements of Heidelberg and Tulpehocken in Pennsylvania in 1729.
		Weiser built his homestead and springhouse along the Tulpehocken Path which became a central point and a place of lodging for Lenape, Shawnee, Oneida, and other Six Nation tribes traveling to Philadelphia.
		Conrad Weiser did not live to see the end of the French and Indian War, or to see his compassion and understanding of the Lenape pass to the next generation of leaders.
	www.geocities.com /scognabooks/kathy/weiser.htm (470 words)

	Historical Society of Berks County - Conrad Weiser, Peacemaker of Colonial Pennsylvania
		There Conrad was designated as popular choice for commander; his soldiers were armed with "guns, swords, pitchforks, axes, or whatsoever might be of use against the enemy and for three days provision in their knapsacks" -as he later wrote the Governor.
		Weiser contributed to this cause by issuing a handbill during the campaign of 1741, a few months after his appointment, in which he attempted to use the legislative support for the Governors program as the basis of the campaign.
		Conrad Weiser's place in local matters might have been obtained by his participation in the "Tulpehocken Confusion" alone, though the part he played in that was but one facet of his duties as local magistrate.
	www.berkshistory.org /articles/peacemaker_1960.html (5224 words)

	Reading Eagle: School Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Action: The Conrad Weiser School Board has disputed the accuracy and fairness of a state report released Tuesday that identifies the high school as falling short of a 95 percent graduation rate and a special-education program in the middle school as needing improvement.
		Conrad Weiser School District’s business manager, Thomas D. Longenecker, told the school board Wednesday night that he did not believe there was any reason to declare an intent to borrow money in order to avoid referendums as required in a new state law.
		The Conrad Weiser School Board budget committee has learned that the middle school renovation project, scheduled to be finished Feb. 28, is $346,366 under the expected costs.
	www.readingeagle.com /SchoolLinks/news/conradweiser.asp (9614 words)

	Conrad Weiser Homestead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The partnership Weiser had helped forge between the Proprietary and the Iroquois proved to be enormously beneficial to the government.
		In 1748, Conrad Weiser shifted the focus of his contact with Native Americans from northward, toward Onodaga, to westward, through and beyond the great Ohio Valley.
		Weiser presented himself to Tanaghrisson, a Seneca chief who served as the Six Nations' tribune for the region, who lived in the Indian town of Logstown (present-day Ambridge, northwest of Pittsburgh, in Beaver County).
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/weiserhome/page6.asp?secid=31 (672 words)

	Cazoo.org: German-American Cultural Center
		The Weiser Association wishes to express appreciation to the Folklore Society and to Dr. Graeff; to Muhlenberg College, for permission to reproduce the window portraying Weiser; and to Louise Z Stahl, a descendant of Weiser, for mkaing the lovely sketches which grace this booklet.
		It is doubtful, indeed, that either Conrad Weiser or his contemporaries were aware of the impact of his thoughts and deeds insofar as they affected the two hundred years which have passed.
		Weiser's early years on the American continent had given him oppourtunity to learn the language of teh Mohawks, because he lived with them for almost a year after leaving during his teens, his unhappy home in what is now Middleburg, New York.
	www.cazoo.org /Germans/ConradWeiser.html (1179 words)

	WeiserConrad
		Abstract: Conrad Weiser was born in Germany in 1696.
		Conrad Weiser was born in the German principality of Württemberg on November 2, 1696.
		In it, Weiser writes that his main purpose on the trip was to carry and deliver a present to the Indians from the Pennsylvania and Virginia authorities.
	www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu /LitMap/bios/Weiser__Conrad.html (919 words)

	Historical Society of Berks County - Conrad Weiser
		Shortly after Weiser and his family moved from the Mohawk Valley of New York to the Tulpehocken Valley of Pennsylvania, the powerful Six Nations of Indians sent Shekilammy, chief of the Oneidas, to rule over the Delawares.
		Conrad had no trouble with the many Indian delegations he escorted through the province as long as Shekilammy was alive.
		Conrad Weiser died on July 13, 1760, at the age of 63.
	www.berkshistory.org /articles/weiser1959.html (709 words)

	Historical Society of Berks County - Conrad Weiser and the New York Colony
		About 1699, John Conrad Weiser, the father- who had been a corporal in the Blue Dragoons, and was now a private citizen, a baker and a vineyardist-removed to the home of his ancestors, Gross Aspach, a near-by village some 35 miles southeast of Heidelberg and 30 miles northeast of Stuttgart.
		Conrad and others of the Palatines were thrown into prison at Albany to be held there until they agreed to buy or pay a rental for the lands on which they squatted.
		Following his marriage, Conrad was in almost constant demand as an interpreter and as an ambassador to plead the cause of the Palatines at New York and elsewhere.
	www.berkshistory.org /articles/weiser_ny_1960.html (2866 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Conrad, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Conrad II CONRAD II [Conrad II] c.990-1039, Holy Roman emperor (1027-39) and German king (1024-39), first of the Salian dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire.
		Conrad IV CONRAD IV [Conrad IV] 1228-54, German king (1237-54), king of Sicily and of Jerusalem (1250-54), son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.
		Conrad III CONRAD III [Conrad III] c.1093-1152, German king (1138-52), son of Frederick, duke of Swabia, and Agnes, daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV; first of the Hohenstaufen dynasty.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Conrad, (605 words)

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		Conrad Weiser was made a Lieutenant Colonel of the First Battalion of the Pennsylvania Regiment of Foote and oversaw the construction of the Blue Mountain forts.
		Weiser is best remembered as Pennsylvaniaâs foremost colonial âpeacemakerâ and ambassador to Indians during the turbulent mid -18th century.
		Weiser was influential in the founding of Reading in 1748 and Berks County in 1752.
	www.schuylkillriver.org /Detail.aspx?id=51 (190 words)

	Weiser Families Association
		The Weiser Family Association welcomes all with Weiser ancestry including but not limited to descendants of John Conrad Weiser, the original emigrant to America, and his son who became known as Conrad Weiser.
		Perhaps as a child of a member of the military not from the area, Conrad's baptism was not considered by the pastor appropriate to enter.
		Conrad emigrated to America in 1710 with his father, a shortly thereafter was placed in the hands of the Mohawks.
	www.rootsweb.com /~pajcwfa/index.htm (429 words)

	Conrad Weiser
		Quagnant proposed to the father to take Conrad with him into his country, and to teach him the language spoken by his nation; the father consented, and Conrad accompanied the chief to his house in the autumn of 1714.
		Weiser, as stated, remained at Schoharie, till 1729, when he, his wife and four children left, and followed his relations and friends to Tulpehocken, where they were all cordially received.
		Weiser was a man of strong mind-cultivated in the' never failing school of experience.
	www.all-biographies.com /historical/conrad_weiser.htm (953 words)

	Conrad Weiser's Homestead
		The new permanent orientation exhibit tells the story of Conrad Weiser (1696-1760), Pennsylvania’s “ambassador to the Indians” during a key period of Pennsylvania’s Colonial period.
		Weiser was a founder of Berks County in 1752, an early county judge, the commander of forts along the frontier, a religious leader, and a prosperous German settler.
		Located in galleries in three buildings at the Conrad Weiser Homestead—the Visitor Center, the Weiser House, and the Education Building—the exhibit explains Weiser’s role in Pennsylvania’s Indian diplomacy, his many and varied accomplishments, the importance of his property as a destination for diplomats and settlers, and the story of his wife and family.
	www.dearmyrtle.com /02/1031d.htm (410 words)

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		Weiser was indispensable to the provincial government in Philadelphia and the league council of the Six Nations at Onondaga.
		Born in Wurtemberg, Germany in 1696, Conrad Weiser came to America at the age of thirteen with his father and siblings as indentured servants.
		In various treaties, negotiated in part by Weiser, Pennsylvania and the Iroquois had deprived them of vast tracts of land and pushed many as far west as the Ohio River, far away from their home in the Delaware Valley.
	www.explorepahistory.com /hmarker.php?markerId=30 (792 words)

	Unser Vorvadder: Conrad Weiser, the man, the legend
		Conrad Weiser is an instantly recognized name throughout the region, but the critical impact of the man from the 1700s on the development of Pennsylvania, and Berks County, escapes most of us.
		Weiser conducted his final major contribution to frontier diplomacy in 1758, when he negotiated the Treaty of Easton, which concluded the vast majority of Native American hostilities in the eastern third of Pennsylvania.
		The exhibit on the ground floor of the Scheetz House portrays the life of Conrad Weiser, centering on his lifetime accomplishments in Native American diplomacy and his significance as a local politician, chiefly responsible for the established of Berks County and Reading.
	www.deitscherei.org /gewebblog/weiser.html (945 words)

	John Pritiskutch Reproductions - Berks (History of Berks County - Conrad Weiser)
		The offer was accepted by the father, and Conrad spent the winter of 1713 and 1714 in the wigwams of the natives.
		His memory was held in such respect by the Indians that for many years they paid frequent visits of affectionate remembrance to his grave.
		Conrad Weiser was the grandfather of the Rev. and Hon.
	www.anthracitemaps.com /members/bpritz/home.nsf/htmlname/berkshistconradweiser (340 words)

	AllRefer.com - Conrad Weiser (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Conrad Weiser[wIz´ur] Pronunciation Key, 1696–1760, American pioneer, b.
		While still a youth, Weiser lived for some time among the Mohawks and learned their language and customs.
		Coming under the influence of Johann Conrad Beissel, he moved (1739) to Ephrata and, leaving his family, entered the Baptist cloister there.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/E-Weiser-C.html (245 words)

	Pa. Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources
		The Weiser Forest District was named in honor of Conrad Weiser, a great leader of the Colonial Period.
		Weiser spent his years as a frontiersman and pioneer among the husky men who were clearing farms in the forest, building roads and struggling for for existence against hostile Indians, hunger, the elements and the discomforts of pioneer life.
		Weiser devoted his remaining years to interpreting the words and thoughts of the Indians to white men.
	www.dcnr.state.pa.us /forestry/stateforests/weiserhistory.aspx (245 words)

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