Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,

Conrad Weiser and Christian Daniel Claus both came from the state of Württemberg in Germany. Weiser arrived in America in 1710 and Claus in 1749. Conrad Weiser, experienced Indian agent, was asked to go to Onondaga to invite Iroquois representatives to a council at Fredericksburg. "Weiser and Claus's journey would take them from Tulpehocken and Reading, northwest to the Delaware, where they followed the Shawangunk mountains into northern New Jersey, entering the Hudson Valley near Kingston. From here they proceeded north to Albany, and then west into the Mohawk Valley to Onondaga. They returned through the Schoharie Valley, traveling overland to Catskill and then south along the Hudson and the Delaware and home"--Intro.