Mr Frederich Weiser

• Birth Notes
  • Baptismal sponsors were Nicholous Feg and his wife.

• Death Notes
  • Died of dropsy

• General Notes
  • He was only a few months old when his parents migrated to Pennsylvania in 1729. He accompanied his father as far as Sunbury (then Shamokin) on the first state of his journeytoOnadaga in1745, taking the horsesback to Tulpehocken, and again in 1753 went there with his brother Sammy to ascertain any traces of French influences. In October 1755, following a massacre of settlers along Penn's Creek, Frederick and Peter brought their cousins, the Reeds, from along the Susquehanna River near present-day Port Trevorton to the home at Tulpehocken. In November, he is listed as one of the party defending the frontier along the Blue Mountain near Dietrich Six's, according to the disposition of Jacob Morgan, Frederick having scalped the Indian casualties. Muhlenberg comments 6/24/1763 that Frederick "had returned two days previously from the Indian frontier, where he had gone to bring back his cattle which had been sent to graze on his late father's land."
    
    Research had failed to reveal his name on any military roster of the period, as those of his brothers Philip and Samuel, but on the boundaries of one of the land warrants to Arthur Auchmuty, adjoining Weiser land on the Susquehanna River, Frederick is mentioned after his death with the title "Captain."
    
    August 1769 he represented the Weiser family at the Conference at Fort Augusta, Sunbury, to express condolences from the Penns to Seneca George on the murder of young Seneca George. Frederick spoke on behalf of one of his cousins then in jail accused of the murder.
    
    Frederick farmed the 450-acre homestead even before the death of his eldest brother Conrad, and was active in local affairs, contributing to St Daniel's Lutheran Church, receiving as trustee the land for the congregation in 1757. He was also a deacon there. He was Berks County Commissioner 1763 to 1766, and one of the viewers appointed in 1768 to survey the Tulpehocken Path between Reading and Fort Augusta.
    
    Muhlenberg was in Reading in September of 1773 concerning the disposition of Conrad Weiser's will, where he mentioned that Frederick was very sick with dropsy, and suggested that death was expected. He had several "heart-to-heart talks" with Frederick before Frederick died 11/15/1773 at WomelsdorfPA. He was likely buried on the family graveyard, as he requested in his lengthy will.
    
    His wife Anna Amelia continued to live on the homestead until 1791 when their eldest, our ancestor, sold it to Daniel Levan, and moved to Northumberland County. (Mr Levan sold it to Jacob, one of the sons of Christopher Frederick Weiser, a brother of Conrad's. Jacob's son John inherited the land in 1795, and sold off part. Upon his death the farm passed to Jacob Hehn, then to John Sheetz, sometime after 1833. A metorite fell near the new house while it was being constructed there, according to Hehn tradition on 11/13/1833. It then went to John A Sheetz from John Sheetz, then Peter Marashall, John F P Marshall, and upon his death the estate sold it 10/2/15 to L Roy Valentine, now 142 acres. About 25 acres was given conditionally to the Conrad Weser Memoral Park Association, and the rest sold to the Farr Nursery Company). She then spent time with various children, but on 12/17/1801, letters in her estate were granted to Daniel Levan, a friend. The place of her burial is unknown.