LAyC^TEE. COb'Ml". 239 



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 cotmt. 



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 the GoTemor 

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

 tary of the Land Omce, ^Messrs. Tmmer, and B. Frank- 

 lin, was appointed a trustee and manager of the pubUc 

 schools, which were established through the efforts of 

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

 mission, the trustees established schools at Lancaster. 

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

 hopen.t 



Dining the French and Indian hostilities, as Lieut. 

 Colonel, he commanded the seccni 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 die North moimtain, one com- 

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

 mountain, called the Tothca Gap, one company at Fort 

 Williams, near the forks of the Schuylkill river, six 

 miles beyond the moimtains, one company at Fon Allen ^ 

 at Gnadenlmetten, on the Lehigh, the oiher three com- 

 panies 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 aplace.":|: 

 Tlie duties of the niunerous stations of life he held, 

 were always discharged with fidehty and abihty ; he was 



»Ibid. 27. iHall. Nach. 661. tGordon's Pa, ZH. 



