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Conrad Weiser. Conrad Weiser (November 2, 1696 – July 13, 1760), born Johann Conrad Weiser, Jr., was a Pennsylvania Dutch (German) pioneer who served as an interpreter and diplomat between the Pennsylvania Colony and Native American nations. Primarily a farmer, he also worked as a tanner, and later served as a soldier and judge.
Andrews, Martin R.: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois (1902). Barker, Joseph: Recollections of the First Settlement of Ohio, Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio (1958) original manuscript written late in Joseph Barker's life, prior to his death in 1843.
The German Americans immigrating from the Mid-Atlantic states, especially eastern Pennsylvania, brought with them the Midland dialect, which is still found throughout much of Ohio. [ 76 ] [ 77 ] For instance, in Philadelphia water is pronounced with a long o versus the normal short o, the same as in many areas of Ohio.
Johann Conrad Weiser Sr. Johann Conrad Weiser Sr. (1662–1746) was a German soldier, baker, and farmer who fled his homeland with thousands of other Germans from the Palatinate region due to constant invasions by French armies and destruction of crops. As a result, Weiser, along with his countrymen, became known as the German Palatines.
Francis Daniel Pastorius (September 26, 1651— c. 1720 [1]: xii, 286 ) was a German-born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official.He was the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia, the first permanent German-American settlement and the gateway for subsequent emigrants from Germany.
SS. Ohio. (1872) SS Ohio was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1872. The second of a series of four Pennsylvania -class vessels, Ohio and her three sister ships— Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois —were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, [1] and amongst ...
These ships were named Copernicus, Johann Georg, Republik, Olbers, and Amalia, the last and smallest, which was lost at sea and never heard of again. The group on the remaining four ships, totaling 602 people, arrived in New Orleans in January 1839, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and from there arranged for transport on steamboat up the Mississippi River to St ...
Concord. (1683) Concord was the ship that in 1683 took the first group of German emigrants to America. [1] On board of the galleon were 13 Mennonite families from Krefeld with a total of 33 people. The ship is also known as the "German Mayflower ". Concord set sail on July 6, 1683, in Rotterdam under Captain William Jeffries with 57 passengers.