Diary
of Jemima Condict,1772-1779
Courtesy-
New
Jersey Historical Society
Jemima
Condict (1754-1779) was a young woman who lived near Morristown. The Condict family can be traced as far back as the late 1600s in Newark, on
Jemima’s father’s and her mother’s side. Jemima began her diary
the year she turned eighteen and wrote in it until her death at the age
of twenty-five, after bearing a child, Ira. She wrote about her life,
her family and local townspeople and events, recording and commenting
upon everyday life — chores, pleasures, deaths, diseases, the
minister’s sermons—and the Revolutionary War. These excerpts
from her diary were written in 1775.
