Life and times of Conrad Weiser : the first representative man of Berks County (1893)
Montgomery, Morton L. (Morton Luther), b. 1846, Board of Trade of Reading (Reading, Pa.) · Reading, Pa. : Chas. F. Haage, printer · leaf 51
e sentence of the Court. For this uprightand fearless discharge of official duty he and his familycame near losing their lives. On a certain night,shortly afterward, the shutters of his dwelling in Hei-delberg were barred and the doors blockaded, and anefibrt was made to. burn the house by placing… … o o ^•OZF: 838 & 840 PENN STREET. Factory, Cherry Street below Ninth. «!^ WEISER LECTURE. 23 discovered the attempt in time and gave the alarm,when all of the family escaped. And it is also related, as showing his humor, that awoman annoyed him by frequent arrests of her husbandfor assault and…
Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 · Monuments
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