. Life and times of Conrad Weiser : the first representative man of Berks County . ated some forty miles to the west ofAlbany. While the negotiations were going on, thecolonists appeared, so eager were they to get beyondthe reach of the grasping commissioners. In the fol-lowing November, the Indians executed a release oftheir interests in certain lands for the sum of $300, andone hundred and fifty German families settled in thatfamous valley. Being industrious, economical and per-severing, they, in a few years, succeeded in building upprosperous villages, which came to be named after theirlead
. Life and times of Conrad Weiser : the first representative man of Berks County . ated some forty miles to the west ofAlbany. While the negotiations were going on, thecolonists appeared, so eager were they to get beyondthe reach of the grasping commissioners. In the fol-lowing November, the Indians executed a release oftheir interests in certain lands for the sum of $300, andone hundred and fifty German families settled in thatfamous valley. Being industrious, economical and per-severing, they, in a few years, succeeded in building upprosperous villages, which came to be named after theirleaders, as Weisersdorf, Brunnersdorf, Gerlachsdorf,Hartmansdorf and Schmidtsdorf. The progeny of theseGerman emigrants afterward adopted the same customin Berks County, for towns came to be laid out in theTulpehocken Valley and similarly named, as Womels-dorf, Stouchsburg, Wohleberstown, Strausstown, Rehr-ersburg and Schaefferstown. ^niillliHllHliniiiaiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiii ?•????????????•i ????iiii ? iiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiiaiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHMI^. UIe salicit your trade and feel cnnfidEnt that by ourquality of u/nrk we will hs TEongnizEd as fit ExponEnts ofths highsst attainmEnts in nur linE, UlritE far EstimatEs. REMDING UiaOIJ CUT CO, Life with the Indians.—In the negotiations for theland, Conrads father made the acquaintance of an In-dian chief, named Quagnant, and after his family hadsettled there the chief made a visit to him. Duringthis visit the chief manifested a fondness for Conradwhich led him to ask Conrads father to permit the sonto accompany him to his village. About the beginningof Winter in 1713, when seventeen years old, at hisfathers request, Conrad accompanied the Indian chief,and these are his own words in describing his ex-perience : • I endured a great deal of cold in m}- situation, and by Springmy hunger far surpassed the cold, although I had poor Indians were often so intoxicated that for fear of being mur-dered I hid myself among the bushes.
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