He was a farmer on the land inherited from his father, and is known to have been a very exemplary man, truly pious and God-fearing; he died in middle life, Nov. 18, 1776. His children, thus early deprived of a father's counsel, afterward located on the eastern side of the Orange mountain. Two of them attained positions of eminence in church and state.
He married second, in 1774, Martha Carter (widow of Stephen Wilcox, of Elizabethtown, N. J.). After his death she married Deacon Paul Day, of Bottle or Long Hill, Morris county, N. J., who died October 30, 1802, in the 78th year of his age. She died at the residence of her son Samuel, Nov. 4, 1815, in her 79th year.
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Buried in First Presbyterian Church Old Burying Grounds, Orange, New Jersey. Tombstone reads: “Here lies the body of Mary Wife of Samuel Cundict Jun Dec’d May 26 1770 in the 37 Year of her age.”
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