Silas Condict (March 7, 1738 – September 6, 1801) was an American farmer, prominent surveyor, and large landowner from
Morris County, New Jersey
Morris County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about west of New York City. According to the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the county's population was enumerated at 509,285, . He served as a
New Jersey
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delegate to the
Continental Congress
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from 1781 to 1783. Later, he served a number of terms in the
State Assembly, and was its Speaker in 1792-1794 and in 1797. His name can be found in archived Congressional records @ " A Biographical Congressional Directory, 1774-1903" (WASHINGTON: 1903)@ page 467 (also naming Dr. John Condict, Silas Condict, Jr. and Sr., and a nephew, Dr. Lewis Condict), found at Google books and at Archive.org. It is found here also:, one of many
Congressional Archive sources showing the Condict family.
Silas' great grandfather, John, the Norman ancestor, is footnoted by archivists in the Archives for the State of New Jersey, First Series, V. XV at the index re: the HorseNeck Indian Land Purchase where his name is misspelled as Candet and Canduct, however, both times the surname is corrected to Condict by archivists at pages: 530 (No. 1) & 533 (No. 24); the book can be found at archive.org. Silas Condict died in
and is buried in the
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Morristown
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. His nephew,
Lewis Condict
Lewis Condict (March 3, 1772 – May 26, 1862) was a physician, and the United States representative from New Jersey. He was the 24th President of the Medical Society of New Jersey.
Biography
Born in Morristown in the Province of New Jersey, ...
, and great-grandson,
Augustus W. Cutler, would later serve in the
U.S. Congress
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.
Sources: The United States Magazine and Democratic Review,1839, January–June,No. VIII, at page 603-604. 1st-11th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC. Also, Hoskins' Men From Morris County NJ Who Served in Rev, pg 49; SAR Graves Registry by KP Bgbertson. Silas Condict is also found in the
First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, NJ records:
at pages 59–67.
There is a large park (over 1500 acres) in Morris County, named for him.
References
External links
Condict’s Congressional biography
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Continental Congressmen from New Jersey
18th-century American politicians
1738 births
1801 deaths
Politicians from Morristown, New Jersey
Speakers of the New Jersey General Assembly
People of colonial New Jersey