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From: "Nelson Sulouff" <>
Subject: Re: [PABERKS] William Penn/Conrad Weiser
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:17:14 -0700
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Leon,

Thanks for the correction. I am very well acquainted with the Weiser
history, but I repeated an obviously improper connection frequently made
by uninformed people to the name William Penn. The correct wording
should have been that JCW was Indian Agent for the Penns.

Nelson

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Leon Borst" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 7:48 AM
Subject: [PABERKS] William Penn/Conrad Weiser


> Nelson,
>
> In your recent letter to PaBerks you wrote:
> "The negotiations with the natives for land during the 18th C. were
mainly conducted by William Penn's favored Indian agent, immigrant
(John) Conrad Weiser the Younger (1696-1760), who incidentally is my 6th
great grandfather."
>
> Considering that William Penn returned to England in 1701, never
returned to America, suffered a paralyzing stroke in 1712 and died in
1718 and Conrad Weiser, at age 16, was living with the Mohawk Indians in
New York in 1712/13 and moved from New York in 1729 with his German-born
wife, Anna Maria and their Children to the Tulpehocken region in what is
now Berks County, I don't believe the two gentlemen ever knew each
other.
>
> Perhaps Conrad Weiser was an Indian Agent for Thomas Penn.
>
> Leon F. Borst
> Chester County, PA

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