Weiser, Johann Conrad

Weiser, Johann Conrad
born Nov. 2, 1696, near Herrenberg, Württemberg
died July 13, 1760, Womelsdorf, Pa.

North American colonial Indian agent.

He immigrated to New York in 1710 and lived briefly among the Iroquois before becoming a farmer and an Indian interpreter. In 1729 he moved to Pennsylvania, where he worked with the colony's Indian agent. He arranged agreements between Iroquois tribes and colonial governments that helped form a British-Indian alliance against the French.

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▪ American colonial agent
born Nov. 2, 1696, near Herrenberg, Württemberg
died July 13, 1760, Womelsdorf, Pa.

      North American colonial Indian agent, musician, evangelist, and public official.

      Weiser migrated to New York with his father in 1710, and the family moved to Schoharie, N.Y., four years later. Conrad lived briefly among the neighbouring Iroquois before starting his own farm, marrying, and serving the settlers as an Indian interpreter.

      In 1729 Weiser moved his family to Tulpehocken, Pa. He resumed farming and began working with the colony's Indian agent, Shikellamy. During the next two decades, Weiser was able to arrange several agreements and alliances between the Iroquois tribes and the colonial governments that maintained the traditional ties between the tribal confederation and the English. The Treaty of Logstown, which he negotiated in 1748, enabled Pennsylvania to expand its Indian trade to the Mississippi River.

      Weiser was also active in other capacities while he lived in Pennsylvania. He studied music, composed several hymns in German, and helped establish a German-language press. In 1735 he underwent a spiritual conversion; for several years afterward, he acted as a religious evangelist in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Weiser failed to be elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly, but his political services included appointments as a justice of the peace and ranger for Lancaster County and justice of the peace and president-judge of Berks County. In 1753 he became a member of the Board of Trade for the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania. When the French and Indian War erupted in 1754, Weiser obtained a commission as colonel and led an expedition to the frontier. The following year he returned to become one of the commissioners founding the town of Reading.

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