Weiser, Johann Conrad

Weiser, Johann Conrad

(born Nov. 2, 1696, near Herrenberg, Württemberg—died July 13, 1760, Womelsdorf, Pa.) North American colonial Indian agent. He immigrated to New York in 1710 and lived briefly among the Iroquois before becoming a farmer and an Indian interpreter. In 1729 he moved to Pennsylvania, where he worked with the colony's Indian agent. He arranged agreements between Iroquois tribes and colonial governments that helped form a British-Indian alliance against the French.

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Weiser, Johann Conrad (1696–1760) Indian agent; born near Herrenberg, Germany. He emigrated to New York before settling in Pennsylvania in 1729. He learned the dialects of the Iroquois tribes and pursued good relations with them. In response to the threat of war with French Canada, he arranged formal conferences with the Indians in Philadelphia in 1731 and 1736 and made the Iroquois alliance binding with the treaty of 1742.