Young Mrs. Condit, nee Abigail Halsey, was the first wife of the distinguished Dr. John Condit, who represented the State of New Jersey in both the US Senate and the US House of Representatives. A teenaged bride, she died at age 24 in 1784, the year after the end of the American Revolutionary War. Her survivors included her husband, who outlived her by half a century, and their sons Caleb and the noted Silas Condit, who also entered politics.
At the time of Abigail Condit's death, almost all grave markers in northern New Jersey were made of locally quarried brown sandstone; that she has a marble headstone similar to those of her son Caleb (d.1797) and relative John Smith Condit (d.1800) suggests that her original stone may have been replaced some 15 years after her death. These three Condit stones are unusual in that they were imported from Connecticut, despite the fact there was no shortage of highly skilled stonecutters in the immediate area. The local craftsmen's medium of choice, was sandstone, however, and Abigail's family evidently preferred marble, a more expensive material which came into vogue during the Federal Era and remained popular well into the Victorian. Unfortunately, marble quickly erodes, and all three of these Condit stones had become illegible by the early 20th Century.
At the time of Abigail Condit's death, almost all grave markers in northern New Jersey were made of locally quarried brown sandstone; that she has a marble headstone similar to those of her son Caleb (d.1797) and relative John Smith Condit (d.1800) suggests that her original stone may have been replaced some 15 years after her death. These three Condit stones are unusual in that they were imported from Connecticut, despite the fact there was no shortage of highly skilled stonecutters in the immediate area. The local craftsmen's medium of choice, was sandstone, however, and Abigail's family evidently preferred marble, a more expensive material which came into vogue during the Federal Era and remained popular well into the Victorian. Unfortunately, marble quickly erodes, and all three of these Condit stones had become illegible by the early 20th Century.
Young Mrs. Condit, nee Abigail Halsey, was the first wife of the distinguished Dr. John Condit, who represented the State of New Jersey in both the US Senate and the US House of Representatives. A teenaged bride, she died at age 24 in 1784, the year after the end of the American Revolutionary War. Her survivors included her husband, who outlived her by half a century, and their sons Caleb and the noted Silas Condit, who also entered politics.
At the time of Abigail Condit's death, almost all grave markers in northern New Jersey were made of locally quarried brown sandstone; that she has a marble headstone similar to those of her son Caleb (d.1797) and relative John Smith Condit (d.1800) suggests that her original stone may have been replaced some 15 years after her death. These three Condit stones are unusual in that they were imported from Connecticut, despite the fact there was no shortage of highly skilled stonecutters in the immediate area. The local craftsmen's medium of choice, was sandstone, however, and Abigail's family evidently preferred marble, a more expensive material which came into vogue during the Federal Era and remained popular well into the Victorian. Unfortunately, marble quickly erodes, and all three of these Condit stones had become illegible by the early 20th Century.
At the time of Abigail Condit's death, almost all grave markers in northern New Jersey were made of locally quarried brown sandstone; that she has a marble headstone similar to those of her son Caleb (d.1797) and relative John Smith Condit (d.1800) suggests that her original stone may have been replaced some 15 years after her death. These three Condit stones are unusual in that they were imported from Connecticut, despite the fact there was no shortage of highly skilled stonecutters in the immediate area. The local craftsmen's medium of choice, was sandstone, however, and Abigail's family evidently preferred marble, a more expensive material which came into vogue during the Federal Era and remained popular well into the Victorian. Unfortunately, marble quickly erodes, and all three of these Condit stones had become illegible by the early 20th Century.
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