Condits and Cousins
Volume 1 History and Biography
Chapter 5, Other Early Cundict's
John Cundict Jr., son of the Ancestor and Half-Brother of Peter
The will of John Cundict, the Ancestor, was written in 1710, three years before his death, and was proved in 1713, so evidently there was no later will or codicil written. John bequeathed to his son, John, virtually all his property, to be claimed at the age of twenty one years. That son would have been at least three years old in 1713 and even could have reached his majority. In the absence of any mention of John outside his father's will, it has been assumed that he died a minor, in which event his inheritance should have passed, under the terms of the will of John Cundict Sr. to Philip Cundict. The question of what became of the younger John is more than academic. We can only assume that he lived with his mother, Deborah, in their home on the Passaic River, and probably they had less incentive than Mary and her children to remove to the Mountain. The first mention of a Cundict after 1714 in the Newark town records is found in 1744, when "John Cundit" was elected one of the Surveyors of the Highways, two years later was elected a Freeholder, and held other offices of trust through 1762. Could that have been Deborah's son? Peter's third son was also named John, and it seems more likely that it was he who is named in the town records of Newark, but it would be reassuring to find convincing evidence one way or the other.
Gravestones and burial records must be resorted to at times, if they can be found, and what they lack in other virtues they make up for in the finality of their message. Someday it may be learned that John Cundict, the Ancestor, was buried either on his own property or in a churchyard in Newark, and at the same time it may be found that, buried nearby are the bodies of his sons, wife and daughter-in-law.
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