Silas Condict

Silas Condict ( born March 7, 1738 in Morristown, New Jersey, † September 6, 1801 ibid ) was an American politician, who participated as a delegate from New Jersey at the Continental Congress.

Silas Condict completed the preparatory to the study school, continued his education but then not continue. He had large estates in his hometown of Morristown and Morris County. After the New Jersey State Council was established as the upper house of the state Legislature to life in 1776, he moved into this house of Parliament, where he remained until 1780. As a supporter of the independence movement, he was also a member of the local Committee of Safety.

From 1781 to 1783 Condict represented the interests of his home state in the Continental Congress, which met at this time in Philadelphia. After that, he was a deputy in the Parliament of New Jersey, the General Assembly, to which he belonged from 1791 to 1794, from 1796 to 1798 and again in 1800. From 1792 to 1794, and in 1797 he was the Speaker of the Parliament chamber.

Condict died in 1801 in his birthplace of Morristown and was also buried there. His nephew Lewis Condict and his great grandson, Augustus W. Cutler sat later as a Member from New Jersey in the House of Representatives of the United States.

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