Update
I have finally gotten around to updating these pages. Sorry to take so long. I invite you to check the "What's New" section of the web site to see what I have updated and where I am going with these pages. For those visiting for the first time, please read on and enjoy looking through the history and life of my branch of the Condit family, all the way back to John Cunditt the ancestor.
Introduction
I'm David Condit and welcome to my family web pages. I have primarily designed my site to assist others in tracking their genealogy and hopefully provide a little more information for my own genealogy. There are several places on the web where the "Condits and Their Cousins in America" book has been reproduced and I am not attempting to duplicate those sites with these pages. The authors of those pages have done an excellent job of providing information and I do not need to duplicate it. But I will provide updated and more accurate information in many cases because I can and do change and add to what is shown for each individual. What I want to do is add some value to the information in the Condit family genealogy book by providing a place where additional information can be shown and updated. That means providing references where available, filling in the blanks where the Condit genealogy has no information, and extending the family lines past 1916 where the book ends. Additionally, I have compiled and put on the web many of my Condit family stories obtained from parents, grandparents, Aunt's and Uncle's and various relatives. This data is unique and available only from a few Condit researchers but adds imeasureably to the Condit story.
If you have additional information on any of the Condit people or family lines I would appreciate you emailing me with the information and allowing me to add it to this web site. I do not plan on including information on living people on the web site, but would like the information for my files. If you see errors in my data, please let me know so I can fix it. And finally, help me document original sources to verify the data on this site and in the Condit genealogy so we can make the data more accurate and complete for future generations.
A brief history of my Condit Family
The first known Condit in America was John Cunditt in 1678 in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey. John Cunditt is known to be the ancestor of virtually all bearing the name of Condit or Conditt in the United States.
The family remained primarily in Newark for the first 20 years but quickly branched out in the immediate area of Newark. Several of the brothers moved to Morristown, NJ while the rest of the family lived in the Orange and Newark area. The family was very much involved in the building up of the Orange and Morristown area, running to large families. A hundred years after John was first known in Newark the Condit family became quite involved in the Revolutionary war with many of the Condit's participating. The most well known being Colonel David Condit, Dr. John Condit and Captain Jonathan Condit. Soon after the end of the war the a group of Condit's moved to the Washington County, PA area and into Mercer County, PA. Twenty years later a another group moved to central Ohio and established the town of Condit.
My branch of the family, David Condit10 (Sheldon Everett9, John Winford8, John Henry7, Silas Whitehead6, Jeptha5, Jonathan4, Samuel3, Peter2, John1 Cunditt) headed west to Ohio where my great-great-grandfather joined the early LDS Church and moved west again to first Nauvoo, IL and then founded and settled in Little Sioux, Iowa when he left the LDS Church. Thirty years later several of Silas' sons and daughters moved west again, settling in the Hagerman, Idaho area. World War II moved my father, Sheldon, away from the Idaho homestead and brought us to California where most of family still lives. The U. S. Army moved me away from California and my family and I now live in Virginia.
Additional Condit Material is available on my Family Info page.Condit Family Links
Cousins and other good web sites for Condit InfoBall Family-Big gEDcom - (Ed Ball)Lots of Condit Info along with links
Cousin Don Maxwell's Condit Family Info - Condit Info in Don's family
Cousin Beth Fay's GenCircles Site - Condit Info and a place to share
Condit Family Genealogy Forum - A place to submit Condit queries
Condit and Cousins in America - Beth Fay's FTM site with entire book on the web
Condit at RootsWeb - Search multiple databases for your Condit family
If you are interested in having your Condit Web information listed here please email me with the page you want included in the list.
Contact Me
For additional information on any individual or to share information, please contact me, David Condit, at david@condit-family.com I will try and respond as quick as possible.
Copyright© 2002-2007 by David E. Condit All Rights Reserved. Published in the United States of America. None of the essays or genealogical reports appended to this web site may be used or reproduced in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system without written permission of the author, except for your own personal use. Any commercial use of any of the materials published at this site is a violation of United States copyright laws. For more information, email David Condit