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John Weiser, Jr.
b.2 Nov 1696 Affstätt, Herrenberg, Duchy of Württemberg
d.13 Jul 1760 Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pennsylvania
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Name John Weiser, Jr.
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Birth? 2 Nov 1696 Affstätt, Herrenberg, Duchy of Württemberg
Death? 13 Jul 1760 Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pennsylvania

Starting these pages after finding detailed migration information from ProGenealogists.com was only available in the Wayback Machine. Am attempting to reproduce it here so it won't be lost. Hopefully this isn't duplicative - although I wasn't able to find this info elsewhere on WeRelate.

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In 1709, Protestant Germans from the Pfalz or Palatine region of Germany escaped conditions of poverty, traveling first to Rotterdam and then to London. Anne, Queen of Great Britain, helped them get to her colonies in America. The trip was long and difficult to survive because of the poor quality of food and water aboard ships and the infectious disease typhus. Many immigrants, particularly children, died before reaching America in June 1710.

The Palatine immigration of about 2100 people who survived was the largest single immigration to America in the colonial period. Most were first settled along the Hudson River in work camps, to pay off their passage. By 1711, seven villages had been established in New York on the Robert Livingston manor. In 1723 Germans became the first Europeans allowed to buy land in the Mohawk Valley west of Little Falls. One hundred homesteads were allocated in the Burnetsfield Patent. By 1750, the Germans occupied a strip some 12 miles (19 km) long along both sides of the Mohawk River. The soil was excellent; some 500 houses were built, mostly of stone, and the region prospered in spite of Indian raids. Herkimer was the best-known of the German settlements in a region long known as the "German Flats" Template:Notables

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Biography

"Concerning his birth and early origin Conrad Weiser, toward the close of his life, wrote[1]: "On Nov. 2, 1696, I, Conrad Weiser, was born in Europe, in the land of Wuerttemberg, in the district (Amt) of Herrenberg; the village is called Astaet, and was christened at Kupingen, nearby, as my father has informed me." Conrad Weiser was an interpreter and diplomat between the Pennsylvania Colony and Native Americans.

Origins:Conrad was born Johann Conrad Weiser, Nov 2, 1696, in Affstatt, Germany, the son of Johann Conrad and Anna Magdalena (Uebele) Weiser, Sr.

Emigration: By 1709, his father, Johann Conrad Weiser, had decided to heed Queen Anne's invitation to inhabitants of the Rhine Valley to migrate to England and to the British colonies in America. 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. During his years in New York, Weiser acquired a keen knowledge of the language, customs and statesmanship of the Iroquois Confederacy (or Six Nations), consisting of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas and Tuscaroras.

Marriage and family:On November 22, 1720, at age 24, Conrad Weiser married Anna Eve Feck (aka Feg), daughter of Johann Peter Feg (1672-5 Dec 1744) and Anna Maria Risch (1681-).

The couple had 14 children:

8 i.Philip (1722-1761)
ii.Anna Magdalena. Born on 13 Jan 1725 in Schoharie, NY. [2] Anna Magdalena died on 16 Mar 1742; she was 17.
iii.Anna Maria. Born on 24 Jun 1727 in Schoharie, NY. [2] Anna Maria died on 23 Aug 1802; she was 75. [1] Buried in Trappe, Montgomery Co., PA. [1] Augustus Lutheran Church.On 22 Apr 1745 when Anna Maria was 17, she married Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, in Stouchsburg, PA. [1] Born on 6 Sep 1711 in Einbeck. [1] Henry Melchior died in Trappe, Montgomery Co., PA, on 7 Oct 1787; he was 76. [1] Buried in Trappe, Montgomery Co., PA. [1]
iv.Frederick. Born on 24 Dec 1728 in Schoharie, NY. [2] Frederick died in Berks Co., PA, on 15 Nov 1773; he was 44. [1]On 3 Dec 1751 when Frederick was 22, he married Anna Amelia Zeller, in Berks Co., PA. [1] Anna Amelia died in 1801. [1]
v.Peter. Born on 27 Feb 1730 in Tulpehocken Twp., Berks Co., PA. [1] Peter died ca 1785. Peter married Catharine.
vi.Christoph. Born on 15 Feb 1731 in Berks Co., PA. [2] Christoph died in May 1731 in Berks Co., PA.
vii.Jacob. Born on 15 Feb 1731 in Berks Co., PA. [2] Jacob died in May 1731 in Berks Co., PA.
viii.Elisabetha. Born on 19 Jun 1732 in Berks Co., PA. [2]
ix.Margaretha. Born on 28 Jan 1734 in Berks Co., PA. [2] Margaretha died in 1777.In Nov 1754 Margaretha first married John Diedrich Matthias Heintzelmann. [1] Born in 1726 in Salzwedel. [1] John Diedrich Matthias died on 9 Feb 1756 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA. [1] Buried in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA. [1] St. Michael's Church.Margaretha second married Anthony Fricker. Born ca 1731 in Europe. Anthony died on 27 Nov 1796 in Reading, Berks Co., PA. [1]
x.Samuel. Born on 23 Apr 1735 in Berks Co., PA. [2] Samuel died ca 1796.On 28 May 1760 when Samuel was 25, he married Judith Levan, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA. [1]
xi.Benjamin. Born on 18 Jul 1736 in Berks Co., PA. [2] Benjamin died in Oct 1736 in Berks Co., PA.
xii.Jabez. Born on 11 Aug 1740 in Berks Co., PA. [2] Jabez died in Berks Co., PA, on 28 Aug 1740. [2]
xiii.Hanna. Born on 27 Feb 1742 in Berks Co., PA. [2] Hanna died in Berks Co., PA, on 11 Aug 1742. [2]
xiv.Benjamin. Born on 12 Aug 1744 in Berks Co., PA. [2]

[2] Professional life: "Perhaps the most fitting accolade bestowed on Conrad Weiser was by an Iroquois, who, speaking to white men upon the death of Weiser in 1760, lamented, "We are at a great loss and sit in darkness...as since his death we cannot so well understand one another." Who was this man who had such far-reaching influence on relations between Pennsylvania and the Iroquois Confederacy; who had access to provincial governors and sachems alike; who interpreted and negotiated treaties; who was commissioned an officer during the War for Empire; but who also sat as a country judge, served as lay minister, and prospered as a farmer, tanner, and storekeeper?"

Death and burial: Johann Conrad died in Womelsdorf, PA, on 13 Jul 1760; he was 63 years old. His wife Anna Eva died on 11 Jun 1781, in Womelsdorf, PA. [Need burial info].

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Sources

  1. ↑ Arthur D. Graeff, Ph.D., "Conrad Weiser," (05 Oct 1940) The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania), page 7, digital image, Newspapers.com, accessed Jan 18, 2018, https://www.newspapers.com/image/?spot=16656404
  2. ↑ 'Ancestry.com Family of Johann Conrad Weiser (6) & Anna Magdalena Ubele, accessed Jan 10, 2014'
  • Ancestry...Find a Grave* Conrad Weiser on Wikipedia* "Conrad Weiser, Peacemaker of Colonial Pennsylvania" ~ By FREDERICK S. WEISER* Blue book of Schuylkill County : who was who and why, in interior eastern Pennsylvania, in Colonial days, the Huguenots and Palatines, their service in Queen Anne's French and Indian, and Revolutionary Wars : a history of the Zerbey, Schwalm, Miller, Merkle, Minnich, Staudt, and many other representative families.

Elliott, Ella Zerbey, 1916. pages 123-132.

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