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through him the Moravian bretliren were made attentive to Indian natives, especially 

 the Iroquois, or Six Nations. Mr. Spangenberg received the lirst account of them from 

 Conrad Weiser, a justice of the peace, and interpreter to the Government in Pennsyl- 

 vania. The Governor and Proprietor of Pennsylvania had sent him in the winter of 

 1736, to treat with the Iroquois, concerning a war ready to break out between them 

 and the Indians of Virginia, and to endeavor to settle the dispute amicably. On this 

 journey of nearly five hundred miles, he suffered great hardships. The weather was 

 uncommonly severe, and he had to force his way, mostly on foot, through deep snow, 

 thick forests, brooks and rivers, carrying provisions for several weeks on his back. 



Count Zinzendorf visited him August 14, 1702, where he met, at Tulpehocken, a 

 numerous embassy of sachems or heads of the Six Nations, returning from Philadelphia. 

 The count was desired to preach the Gospel to the Indians; Weiser was interpreter on 

 this occasion, adding in conclusion of the discourse : " This is the man whom God hath 

 sent, both to the Indians and to the white people, to make known his will unto them,'' 

 confirming his words, after the Indian custom, by a present of a piece of red cloth. 



Sometime in the month of September, Conrad Weiser visited Shamokin, a populous 

 Indian town, where he interpreted between Shikellimus and the Count. 



He attended all the principal Indian treaties held for a period of more than twenty- 

 five years. About the year 1752, Conrad Weiser, in connection with the Governor of 

 Pennsylvania, Chief Justice Allen, Mr. Peters, Secretary of the Land Office, Messrs. 

 Turner and B. Franklin, was appointed a trustee and manager of the Public Schools, 

 which were established through the eftbrts of the Rev. Michael Schlatter. By virtue 

 of their commission, the trustees established schools at Lancaster, York, Reading, New 

 Hanover, Skippack, and Goshenhopen. 



During the French and Indian hostilities, as Lieutenant Colonel, he commanded the 

 second battalion of the Pennsylvania regiment, consisting of nine companies. ' ' They 

 were thus distributed — one company at Fort Augusta, one at Hunter's mill, seven 

 miles above Ilarrisburg, on the Susquehanna, one half company on the Swatara, at the 

 foot of the North mountain, one company 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 

 Gnadenhiitten, on the Lehigh; the other three companies were scattered between the 

 rivers Lehigh and Delaware, at the disposition of the captains, at farm-houses, others 

 at mills, from three to twenty in a place. ' ' 



The duties of the numerous positions he filled were always discharged with fidelity 

 and ability; he was both capable and honest. He closed his eventful life, July 13, 

 1760. His remains were interred July 15, near Womelsdorf, Berks county. He left 

 seven children and many relatives to lament his death. Weiser was a man of strong- 

 mind — cultivated in the never failing school of experience. His poetical eftusions only 

 remain, a few of which are said to be well written. The following is the concluding • 

 verse of a hymn furnished by him at a church dedication: 



Fuer Feuer, Krieir "nd M'assers-Noth 

 Wollst Ju dies Haus bcwahren ! 

 Darnit naeh unserm sel'yren Tod 

 Die Nachkommen erfahren, 

 Uass wir dick, waliren Gott, geliebt 

 Fnd uns in deinem AVort geubt, 

 Um deines Namens willen. 



Yeates, Jaspek, born at Philadelphia, in 1745, settled at Lancaster in 1764, was 

 appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of the State in 1791 and died at Lancaster 

 in 1817. 



Twenty-five years of his life were spent upon the bench, the greater i>ortion of which 

 he was in the difterent circuits of the State. His mind was vigorous and his opinions 



