. Life and times of Conrad Weiser : the first representative man of Berks County . fected by theFrench and Indian War. Previous to this war, manyIndians, while on their way from the regions beyondthe Blue Mountains through Reading to the seat ofgovernment at Philadelphia, stopped here for a whileto pay their compliments to Weiser as a steadfastfriend, and receive from him gifts of useful articles, orobtain them in exchange for articles of their own man-ufacture. Death in 1760.—After the cessation of Indian hos-tilities in the county, Conrad Weiser became an trials and exposures lat
. Life and times of Conrad Weiser : the first representative man of Berks County . fected by theFrench and Indian War. Previous to this war, manyIndians, while on their way from the regions beyondthe Blue Mountains through Reading to the seat ofgovernment at Philadelphia, stopped here for a whileto pay their compliments to Weiser as a steadfastfriend, and receive from him gifts of useful articles, orobtain them in exchange for articles of their own man-ufacture. Death in 1760.—After the cessation of Indian hos-tilities in the county, Conrad Weiser became an trials and exposures latterly had been too severefor his strength. But he continued, however, to offi-ciate as the presiding judge of the courts until 1760 ;then he was obliged to retire to his farm in Heidelbergtownship adjoining the Tulpehocken road, nearly four-teen miles west from Reading, and there he died on thethirteenth day of July, of that year, in the sixty-thirdyear of his age. He was buried in a family burying Myers & Heim, Tailo!(S and Slothiers, -HSTo. SOS r>HKr3sr sqxj.^^:e= copYftiCHr
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