. Life and times of Conrad Weiser : the first representative man of Berks County . umou and ^late Woi^I^g. Edmund T. Kuendig, ^ ASSOCIATED WITH THE ABOVE ARE Messrs 0, M, Landis & 00,, DEALERS IN High-Grade Wood Mantels, Parquetry Floors, Orna-mental Woodwork, Fireplaces, Etc. OFFICE AND WORKS, DPAHIMn DA 4-5 Reed St., Rear Of Court House, n CrVl^ 1 i\ Ol, rM. WEISER LECTURE. 20 Local Government.—About the time that ConradWeiser became publicly active as an interpreter, he alsointerested himself in the formation of a new townshipout of the extensive territory of Tulpehockeu. It wa
. Life and times of Conrad Weiser : the first representative man of Berks County . umou and ^late Woi^I^g. Edmund T. Kuendig, ^ ASSOCIATED WITH THE ABOVE ARE Messrs 0, M, Landis & 00,, DEALERS IN High-Grade Wood Mantels, Parquetry Floors, Orna-mental Woodwork, Fireplaces, Etc. OFFICE AND WORKS, DPAHIMn DA 4-5 Reed St., Rear Of Court House, n CrVl^ 1 i\ Ol, rM. WEISER LECTURE. 20 Local Government.—About the time that ConradWeiser became publicly active as an interpreter, he alsointerested himself in the formation of a new townshipout of the extensive territory of Tulpehockeu. It waserected in 1734 and named Heidelberg, after a promi-nent place in the Palatinate, in the Duchy of Baden. In 1738 he was at the head of a movement for theerection of a new county out of the upper parts ofLancaster and Philadelphia Counties. Repeated andpersistent applications to the General Assembly weremade during the next fourteen years, and finally, in1752, the prayer of the petitioners was granted. Thename given to the new county was Berks—this havingbeen suggested by the Proprietaries in honor of theirnative county in E
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