Manuscript Group 67, Lewis Condict (1773-1862), Doctor and statesman Papers, 1833-1837

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Manuscript Group 67, Lewis Condict (1773-1862), Doctor and statesman Papers, 1833-1837, 0.2 linear feet / 1 volume
Call Number: MG 67

Summary

• Biographical Note
• Provenance Note
• Scope and Content Note
• Related Collections
• List of Pension Applicants

Summary:

Notes on New Jersey Revolutionary War veterans and their families collected by Condict primarily from pension applications submitted between 1833 and 1839.  Most abstracts contain testimony concerning the applicant’s military service.  A typescript copy is in the Halsey Collection (H 412).  Printed in New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings, n.s., 5-10 (1920-25).

Gift of Joseph F. Tuttle

Biographical Note:

Lewis Condict, the youngest child of Annie Byram (d.1826) and Peter Condict (1744-1774), was born in Morristown, New Jersey on March 3, 1773.  He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1794 and soon entered into medical practice in his hometown of Morristown.

He also entered public office, serving as sheriff of Morris County in 1800 and as a member of the New Jersey Assembly from 1805-1810, the final two years of which he was speaker. He next served as a U.S. congressman from 1811-1833 and then from 1837-1838 he again was speaker of the Assembly. During his time in office, Condict was appointed as a commissioner to settle the boundary dispute between New York and New Jersey and as a presidential elector (1840).

In addition to his medical and political career, Condict was active in a number of other areas. He was a trustee for the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) (1827-1861), the first president of the Morris and Essex Railroad Company (1825), a commissioner of the Trenton asylum, a founding member of the American Colonization Society, a member of the State Medical Society, chairman of the Reception Committee for General Lafayette at Morristown (1825), and an accomplished Latin scholar.

On October 6, 1798, Lewis Condict married Martha Woodhull (1781-1820), with whom he had ten children. On December 20, 1824, the widower Condict married Martina Elmendorf (1784-1851), with whom he had another daughter. Lewis Condict died on May 26, 1862 in Morristown, New Jersey.

Sources:

Condit, Jotham H. and Eben Condit. Genealogical Record of the Condit Family, Descendants of John Cunditt, A Native of Newark, NJ, 1678-1885 (Ward & Tichenor: Newark, NJ), pgs. 184-185.

Wickes, Stephen. History of Medicine in New Jersey, and of its Medical Men, From the Settlement of the Province to A.D. 1800 (Martin R. Dennis & Co.: Newark, NJ, 1879), pgs. 214-215.

Provenance Note:

This collection was a gift to the Society from Reverend Joseph F. Tuttle, who was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey in 1818, moved to Ohio in 1832, and later became the president of Wabash College in Indiana. He was a noted writer and historian.

Scope and Content Note:

The Lewis Condict Papers consist of a bound volume of notes on Revolutionary War pension applications taken by Lewis Condict between the years 1833-1837. In these notes, Condict attempted to outline and verify the war service of 122 applicants using each man’s own statements and/or the testimony of fellow soldiers. He then passed his findings along to the pension office where they approved or declined the application.

The notes are often under the headings “The case of…” or “Testimony of … in case of …” In addition, the application can be filed by the veteran’s widow under her husband’s name. Occasionally it is unclear to which case the notes are referring.

The case notes are in no particular order and are not indexed. However, below are two lists of the applicants whose names appear in the volume. The first list gives the names in the order they appear and assigns a number to each name. This number has been used in the second list, which places the names in alphabetical order, to give the user an idea of where that case is located in the volume. The lists only refer to the first time an applicant’s case is mentioned.

Related Collections:

Manuscript Group 348, Lewis Condict (1773-1862) Diary
Manuscript Group 123, Jemima Condict (1754-1779) Diary
Manuscript Group 324, Ruth W. Condict (1798-1815) Diary
Manuscript Group 454, Condit-Dodd Family Papers

Processed by Kim Charlton, July 2000 as part of the “Farm
to City” project funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications
and Records Commission.

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