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after the Indian custom, by a present of a piece of red 

 cloth.* 



Sometime in the month of September, Conrad Weiser 

 visited Shomakin, a populous Indian town, where he 

 interpreted between ShikeUimus and the count. 



He attended all the principal Indian treaties held for a 

 period of rising twenty-five years. About the year 

 1752, Conrad Weiser, in connexion with tho Governor 

 of Pennsylvania, Chief Justice Allen, Mr. Peters, Secre- 

 tary of the Land Office, Messrs. Turner, and B. Frank- 

 lin, was appointed a trustee and manager of the public 

 schools, which were established through the efforts of 

 tlie Rev. Michael Schlatter. By virtue of their com- 

 mission, the trustees established schools at Lancaster, 

 York, Reading, New Hanover,^ Skippack, and Goshen- 

 hopen.t 



During the French and Indian hostilities, as Lieut. 

 Colonel, he commanded the seccnl battahon of the 

 Pemisylvania regiment, consisting of nine companies — 

 "they were thus distributed — one company at Fort 

 Augusta, one at Hunter's mill, seven miles above Har- 

 risburg, on the Susquehanna, one half company on the 

 Swatara, at the foot of the North mountain, one com- 

 pany and a half at Fort Henry, close to the Gap of the 

 mountain, called the Tothea Gap, one company at Fort 

 Williams, near the forks of the Schuylkill river, six 

 miles beyond the mountains, one company at Fort Allen, 

 at Gnadenhuetten, on the Lehigh, the other three com- 

 panies were scattered between the rivers L^ehigh and 

 Delaware, at the disposition of the captains, at farm- 

 houses, others at mills, from three to twenty in a place. "f 



The duties of the numerous stations of life he held, 

 were always discharged with fidelity and ability ; he was 



*Ibid. 27. fHall. Nach. 661. t Gordon's Pa. 341. 



