255 s::?t:rt of 



iDierpreier wbile pursuing the iuiproTement of te 

 farm. 



He Tras a man o£ nnboraided benevolence, and dis- 

 posed "/o hope all things" — it was through him the 

 Morarian brethren were made anentive to Indian 

 natiT^ especially the Iroquois, or Six Nauons. Mr. 

 ^wjttgenberger leceiTed the first account of them from 

 Conrad Weiser, a justice of the peace, and interpreter to 

 the GoTernment in PennsylTania.* The GoTemor and 

 Proprietor of Pennsybrania 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 jonmey, of neaiiy fire hundred miles, he sufiered 

 great harddiips. Tlie weather was imcommonly severe, 

 and he had to foree his way. mostly on foot, through 

 deep snow, thick forests, brooks and rivers, carrying 

 provisions fci several weeks on his back-t 



If it may be caiied such, he bad the good forttme to 

 become acquainted with msny of the con^icuotis 

 characters of his day. Count Zinzendorf visited him 

 Auzust 14. 175^. where he met, at Tuipehocken, a 

 :numeroi25 embasy of sachems or heads of the Sis 

 >'"-i:«as, returning from Philadelphia. The coimt was 

 :ous of preaching the Gospel to the Indians ; Weiser 

 was mterpreter on this oc-casion ; 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,*' cMifirming his word- 



*LoddeL P. 1, 4, 5. 



iHe was appointed in 174L Die Landes Obrif keit gewann 

 ihn heb, wegen seines ehriicben und brooders nuetzlicben 

 'Characters, and machte ihn 1741, zam Friede-Richter und 

 £ othschalier ber den lodianer-Xauc-n. UaU, ymdtridUen 97^. 



