John Conrad Weiser and Unknown

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Husband John Conrad Weiser ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1660 1
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         Father: Jacob Weiser (Abt 1625-      ) 1 2
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       Marriage: 1711 1 3

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   Other Spouse: Anna Magdalena Uebele (Abt 1666-1709/1709) 1 2

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Wife Unknown

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1 M John Frederick [2] Weiser ³

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2 M Jacob Weiser ³

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3 F Rebecca Weiser ³

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General Notes: Husband - John Conrad Weiser

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In the beginning of the eighteenth century constant wars had reduced the people of southern Germany to a great condition of misery. Under the favor of Anne, the benevolent Queen of England, there was in consequence a large migration to America. At her expense four thousand Germans were transported across the sea. Five Mohawk Indian chiefs had promised them lands. June 13, 1710, a fleet of ten vessels landed at New York, having brought these four thousand settlers, and in the fall they took up their residence in villages along the Hudson. There they were oppressed by a commercial corporation; they were compelled to practical servitude and were not transported to the lands which the Indians had offered. Many of them removed to the westward, seeking these lands, and settled among the Indians, who happily received them kindly, in the Mohawk and Schoharie valleys, about forty miles west of Albany, New York. But trouble still pursued these wretched wanderers in their new home. Their lands were claimed by others. It was a long time, in which they suffered greatly, before the English authorities became clearly cognizant of the miseries of these people and the wrongs which had been practiced on them. Justice was then attempted, but before the final relief of their condition a second migration had occurred from the Schoharie settlement into Pennsylvania.
Most of the Palatines, as these immigrants were called, were of the poor and doubtless they were ignorant and rude. For a long time there was a decided social distinction drawn between them and the Dutch, where these peoples lived together, to the detriment of the Palatines. But a few families among them became conspicuous even in the earliest days, and the Weiser family was the most notable, forceful and capable of them all. It was of higher rank in the old country, though reduced by misfortune at this time.
John Conrad Weiser was the recognized leader of the Palatine immigrants who came to New York in 1710. Three years later he was the leader in the removal to the Mohawk and Schoharie valleys, and in their new settlement they called one of their villages Weisersdorf. When three delegates journeyed to London to plead on behalf of the settlers against the claimants to their new plantations, he was the chief of these.

He was sent to America by Queen Anne in charge of a company of Palatines in 1709. There were three thousand persons in ten vessels. They were sent, passage paid, to a grant of land in New York state, but when they arrived, they were enslaved by Robert Livingston and Robert Hunter, who took them to Livingston Manor to work out their passage (which had been promised them free by Queen Anne). John Conrad Weiser, Sr., got consent of Mohawk Indians to let them have the grants promised by Queen Anne, but Governor Hunter interfered and took this from them. So Weiser and two others were sent to England to obtain redress for their sufferings. Finally in 1723 he brought a party of these Palatines to Heidelburg Township, in Pennsylvania.
John Conrad Weiser, Sr., served as the captain of Queensbury Company of Palatines in the British Army assembled at Albany for a proposed expedition against Montreal in the summer and fall of 1711, in the regiment of Colonel Ingoldsby.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 971.

2 Rev. P. C. Croll, D.D., Annals of Womelsdorf, Pa., and Community, Pg 119.

3 Rev. P. C. Croll, D.D., Annals of Womelsdorf, Pa., and Community, Pg 121.