A Preliminary Biographical Sketch (there is much more information, particularly of his ship-building and sailing travels):
Dennis Condry, son of Dennis (b. 3/3/1771) and Mary (Perkins) Condry (b. ca 1770), was born in Newburyport August 23, 1794. At an
early age he made several voyages to the West Indies, as an ordinary seaman, and soon became a ship-master and ship-owner.
April 8, 1813, he married Ann, daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth (Adams) Lowell, and November 29, 1821,
was admitted to membership in the Newburyport Marine Society.
He was captain of the ship Potomac, built, in Salisbury, in 1 821, for William Bartlet of Newburyport, and in
1840 was part owner of the ship Delia Walker (see McKay), commanded by his son, Lewis Lowell Condry.
In 1830, he purchased a lot of land, with a dwelling house thereon, in Newbury, on the southwesterly side of High street, opposite the head of Lime street, which he owned and occupied for twenty-five years.
Lewis Lowell was for ten or fifteen years keeper of the lighthouses at Plum
island.
[The house on this lot of land was probably built in 1797, by Benjamin Shaw (Essex Deeds, book 164, leaf 28). He was unsuccessful in business, and sold the property to Ehas Hunt in 1790 (Essex Deeds, book 166, leaf 50). Mr. Hunt died April 20, 1820; and his widow, Betsey Hunt, conveyed the land, with the;
buildings thereon, to Dennis Condry April 27, 1830 (Essex Deeds, book 256, leaf 133). Amos W. Mooney purchased the house October 20, 1856 (Essex Deeds, book 540, leaf 115), and sold it, March 16, 1874, to Thomas C. Simpson (Essex Deeds, book 900, leaf 36). It is now the residence of his daughter, Mabel (Simp-
son) Burke, and her husband, Robert E. Rurke, esq]
Although actively engaged in commercial pursuits, he was interested in public affairs, and was a member of the Massachusetts senate in 1846 and 1847, and a representative to the General Court for the session beginning January 3, 1849.
He was twice married.
By his first wife, Ann (Lowell)Condry, he had the following-named children:
Lewis Lowell Condry, born in Newburyport Oct. 11, 1S13.
Ann, " " Newbury Feb., 1815; married Charles Knight.
Dennis Condry, born in Newbury Jan. 21, 1819.
Charles Coffin Condry, born in Newbury March 5, 1821, died Jan. 3, 1846.
Delia Walker, born in Newbury April 26, 1824. died Oct. 14, 1824.
Delia Walker, born in August 4, 1830, married Richard A Hanson of Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 1852.
Mrs. Ann (Lowell) Condry died ca 1845 ; and Captain Condry married, February 7, 1848, Catharine Rebecca Browne, daughter of William and Sarah Justice (McLitire) Browne of Washington, D. C.
By this second marriage he had one daughter, Sarah Browne Condry, born in Newburyport November 9, 1848. She married, January 20, 1876, William Nichols Field. Mr. Field died in 1893.
Captain Dennis Condry was appointed lieutenant-commander in the United States naval transport service October 5, 1861. Additional information will be posted detailing his exploits blockading the Confederacy. After the close of the Civil war he was an inspector in the Boston custom house for several years.
He died in Roxbury, now a part of the city of Boston, November 26, 1876.
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