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


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

List
of pension applicants in the order they appear:
List of pension applicants
alphabetically:
1. Clark Miller Aber (?), Israel 77
2. R. Stanbury Allen, Samuel 119
3. Jonathan H. Osborn Alwood, Benjamin 84
4. Erick Ryno Anderson, Cornelius 103
5. Daniel Hetfield Baird, John 112
6. William Clark Baldwin, John P. 30
7. Jacob Davis Baldwin, Stephen 44
8. Henry Williams Beam, Peter 74
9. David Williams Bedford, David 101
10. John Dunham Blower, John 59
11. Jacob Ludlum Brookfield, Brown 40
12. Nathan Elmer Brookfield, Jacob 69
13. Joseph Doty Brown, Stephen 24
14. Jacob Potter Buck, A. 118
15. Amos Potter Burt, Benjamin 82
16. Abraham Harrison Chedister, Phineas 85
17. George Townly Christian, C.P. 116
18. Nehemiah Day Clark, Henry 122
19. Aaron Hand Clark, William 6
20. James Kitchell Clayton, Joseph H. 94
21. Winans Harris Compton, Job 100
22. Dennis Morris Comstock, Caleb 113
23. Nathaniel Whittaker Cook, Daniel 93
24. Stephen Brown Craig, Frazer 27
25 Jonathan Ruckman (?) Davis, Jacob 7
26. List of Pension applications Davis, ( ) 36
  sent to Pension Office in 1834 Davison, John 115
27. Frazer Craig Day, Artemas 86
28. Aaron Thompson Day, Moses 108
29. Isaac Tompkins Day, Nehemiah 18
30. John P. Baldwin Dorlane (?), Peter 104
31. Samuel Satphin (?) Doty, Joseph 13
32. Israel Lee Dunham, John 10
33 Jacob Sisco (?) (b.1760) Duran, Alexander 80
34. Jos. Lyons Edwards, Jacob 106
35. Daniel Skellinger Elmer, Nathan 12
36. ( ) Davis Erwin, David 107
37. Peter Hendrickson Eston, Samuel 79
38. John Hall Fairchild, Benjamin 62
39. John A. Hight (?) Farrand, Bethuel 61
40. Brown Brookfield (b.1760) Farrand, Phineas 73
41. Samuel Reynolds Felter (?), Tunis 78
42. Samuel Shipman Gerard, Daniel 57
43. Abraham Westbrook Gurney, Isaac 117
44. Stephen Baldwin Hall, John 38
45. Daniel Swayze Hall, Josiah 72
46. Timothy Sanders (d.1827) Hand, Aaron 19
47. Thomas Hill Harris, Winans 21
48. Jno. Jerolman (?) Harrison, Abraham 16
49. Joseph Sutton Hendrickson, Peter 37
50. Nathan Lun Hetfield, Daniel 5
51. Joseph Kinnan Hight (?), John A. 39
52. Victor King Hill, Thomas 47
53. Jacob Thompson Horton, Daniel 90
54. Richard Roff Horton, John 92
55. Aaron Roberts Jacobs, John 99
56. Robert Little Jerolman (?), Jno. 48
57. Daniel Gerard Johnson, Jos. 87
58. Peter Marshall (?) Kelsey, ( ) 111
59. John Blower Ketcham, James 88
60. Frederick Moss King, Victor 52
61. Bethuel Farrand Kinman, Joseph 51
62. Benjamin Fairchild Kitchell, James (b.1759) 20
63. Samuel Parsons Larrison, Thomas 76
64. Simon Morham (?) Lee, Israel 32
65. Philip Scudder Little, Robert 56
66. Timothy Tuttle Ludlum, Jacob 11
67. William Willis Lun, Nathan 50
68. Benjamin Thompson Lyons, Jos. 34
69. Jacob Brookfield McCarter, John 96
70. Richard Stevens Marshall (?), Peter 58
71. Charles Wagner Meeker, Caleb 109
72. Josiah Hall Miller, Clark 1
73. Phineas Farrand Moreau, John 89
74. Peter Beam Morham (?), Simon 64
75. Joseph Wood Morris, Dennis 22
76. Thomas Larrison Morris, Jonathan F. 95
77. Israel Aber (?) Moss, Frederick 60
78. Tunis Felter (?) Osborn, Jonathan H. 3
79. Samuel Eston Parsons, Samuel 63
80. Alexander Duran Pierson, Robert 102
81. Caleb Ward Potter, Amos 15
82. Benjamin Burt Potter, Jacob 14
83. Jonas Ward Radley, William 105
84. Benjamin Alwood Reynolds, Samuel 41
85. Phineas Chedister Roberts, Aaron 55
86. Artemas Day Roff, Richard 54
87. Jos. Johnson Ruckman (?), Jonathan 25
88. James Ketcham Ryno, Erick 4
89. John Moreau Sanders, Timothy (d.1827) 46
90. Daniel Horton Satphin (?), Samuel 31
91. John Toland (?) Scudder, Philip 65
92. John Horton Seely, Samuel C. 98
93. Daniel Cook Shipman, Samuel 42
94. Joseph H. Clayton Sisco (?), Jacob (b.1760) 33
95. Jonathon. F. Morris Skellinger, Daniel 35
96. John McCarter Stanbury, R. 2
97. John Wortman Stevens, Richard 70
98. Samuel C. Seely Stiles, John 114
99. John Jacobs Sutton, Joseph 49
100. Job Compton Swayze, Daniel 45
101. David Bedford Thompson, Aaron 28
102. Robert Pierson Thompson, Benjamin 68
103. Cornelius Anderson Thompson, Jacob 53
104. Peter Dorlane (?) Toland (?), John 91
105. William Radley Tompkins, Isaac 29
106. Jacob Edwards Townly, George 17
107. David Erwin Tuttle, Timothy 66
108. Moses Day Wagner, Charles 71
109. Caleb Meeker Ward, Caleb 81
110. William Willet Ward, Jonas 83
111. ( ) Kelsey Westbrook, Abraham 43
112. John Baird Whittaker, Nathaniel 23
113. Caleb Comstock Willet, William 110
114. John Stiles Williams, David 9
115. John Davison Williams, Henry 8
116. C.P. Christian Willis, William 67
117. Isaac Gurney Wilson, Stafford 121
118. A. Buck Wood, Joseph 75
119. Samuel Allen Wortman, John 97
120. Daniel Yard Yard, Daniel 120
121. Stafford Wilson    
122. Henry Clark    

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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