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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Jemima Condict's Revolutionary War Era Diary Surnames

Jemima CONDICT's lineage: of John Condict (the Norman descent ancestor to America in 1678, from Wales, from England?, from Normandy France?), is inscribed in stone at the Condict family memorial/cenotaph on Find A Grave.
Likely misspelled by others (not family) with surname variations  as Cundit, Cunditt or Cundict, one can find Jemima Condict (in her famous Revolutionary War era diary), and the Honorable Silas Condict to state the  surname spellings of their family as Condict--with the 2nd "c."
The likely source of genealogy source confusion could be the two Condit Family Association genealogy books by its two Condit authors/ genealogists,Jotham and Eben Condit, who mention known surname variations (both by others and by family) in the books' intros, along with mention of their descendant indexing system by which most all the descendants in their 1885 and 1916 books are indexed and numbered with the surname of Condit even though the authors were aware of the Condict family memorial. The Jemima Condict Diary translation did not come until 1930 in a book that translates the entire diary : source is New Jersey Historical Society:

Condict, Jemima, 1754-1779.

Title: Jemima Condict Diary

Dates:1772-1779

Abstract: Kept by a young girl who lived in the village of Pleasantdale (now part of West Orange), Essex County, New Jersey, and was married to Aaron Harrison. Published as Jemima Condict Her Book, Being a Transcript of the Diary of and Essex County Maid during the Revolutionary War (Newark, 1930) (call# R.B. Car 13); also in Elizabeth Evans, Weathering the Storm: Women of the American Revolution (New York, ca. 1975) (call# 973.315 Ev15), pgs. 33-51.


Other links to Jemima's diary and surnames of Condict:  http://njahgp.genealogyvillage.com/death-records-from-an-okd-diary-1772-1778.html

http://sites.bergen.org/ourstory/Resources/Colonial_Life/Templates/cl-primary.htm

http://revolutionarynj.org/neighbor/jemima-condict/

http://www.revolutionarywarnewjersey.com/new_jersey_revolutionary_war_sites/towns/orange_nj_revolutionary_war_sites.htm


http://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-living/witness-to-history-diary-revolution/


sources at New Jersey Historical Society:   New Jersey Historical Society, Documents, Manuscripts, Maps, & Photographs, Manuscript Group 123, Jemima Condict (1754-1779), Diary, 1772-1779, 0.25 linear feet / 2 folders, Call Number: MG 123
http://www.jerseyhistory.org/findingaid.php?aid=0123





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