. Life and times of Conrad Weiser : the first representative man of Berks County . of Pennsylvani and tens of thousands of the friends, neigh-bors and countrymen of Conrad Weisers father werein the great social movement of emigration, and in thismovement by the year 1709, his father had also deter-mined to follow. Emigration in 1709.—-We may well wonder how hecame to survive the cruel invasions of the French, andtheir costly devastations and persecutions. By his in-fluence, he collected a colony of 4000 Germans from thevicinity of Gross Anspach, and, in June, with hisfamily (compri
. Life and times of Conrad Weiser : the first representative man of Berks County . of Pennsylvani and tens of thousands of the friends, neigh-bors and countrymen of Conrad Weisers father werein the great social movement of emigration, and in thismovement by the year 1709, his father had also deter-mined to follow. Emigration in 1709.—-We may well wonder how hecame to survive the cruel invasions of the French, andtheir costly devastations and persecutions. By his in-fluence, he collected a colony of 4000 Germans from thevicinity of Gross Anspach, and, in June, with hisfamily (comprising eight children and himself,) he ledthis colony away from the terrors of war into the bless-ings of peace. In this family was Conrad Weiser, thennearly thirteen years of age. ?*s JOHN B. RASER, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ID I^TJ(3 C3-1 ST, 154 & 156 N. 6th St,, READING, PA., Has constantly un hand a full line of everything that goes to makeup a first-class DRUG STORE, such as S cR H ^fa^ > 1^ si ,x -^ ^ ^ OJ Ol -^ t> 5^ /- CO ^ ti ^ o ^ - - S - ^ ^ ^::S =^1 t. Best in the City. Special attention given to COMPOUNDINGPRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY. Headquarters for Art-ists and Wax Flower Materials, Caustic Soda or SaltPotash for Making Soap. Remember the PLACE. LafjestDfug Establishment in Reaig, COR. 6TH AND WALNUT STS. WEISER LECTURE. 11 So it was that these Christian, hopeful, determinedpeople left the Palatinate, first followinoj the Rhine,then crossing the lower North Sea and landing in along the Thames river near London, after a trying journey of two months. Transportation not hav-ing been immediately provided, they were detaineduntil the necessary preparations could be made for solarge a body of emigrants at one time. While thuswaiting, there were five chiefs of the Mohawk tribe atLondon on a visit to the Queen, and they, hearing ofthe Palatinates, volunteered to set apart certain landsin the Mohawk Valley in New York, if the Queenshould direct them to be
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