Thones and Elin Kunders were among the 13 original families who founded Germantown PA in 1683. This website is dedicated to their descendants.

These descendants adopted various ways of spelling their last name and no two sons spelled it the same way; Conard, Cunard, Connard and Cunreds have all been in use for generation and still continue. Our forefathers were Quakers who hailed from Crefeld Germany, as city near the border of Holland. While the Quakers controlled the affairs of the province Pennsylvania had its Golden Age: during the seventy years they controlled the government not a single Quaker lost his life, brotherly love and fairness was shown to the Native Americans and comfort and plenty were the rewards for the labors of the inhabitants; while colonies founded at the same time but on different principals suffered wars and famine.

Part One was written by Henry C. Conard and is part of the “Conard Book” that was published in 1939. It was digitized and scanned by the Boston Public Library and Internet Archives as part of the Americana Project. I have updated and added information but resisted the urge to update the old fashioned spelling found in many older documents.

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE 119TH ANNUAL AND POSSIBLY FINAL REUNION

OF THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN AND SARAH CONARD AT THE HORSHAM FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE ON SATURDAY the 17th of JUNE 2023 at ROUTE 611 AND MEETINGHOUSE ROAD, Horsham PA 19044

DUE TO UNFILLED SEATS ON OUR ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, THE RUNION MAY NEED TO PAUSE AFTER THIS YEAR. VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED TO ATTEND THE REUNION AND EXPRESS INTEREST IN JOINING THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE IF WE ARE TO CONTINUE IN 2024.

Arrive at 10:30 a.m. to sign in.
FAMILY MEETING AT 11:00, Group Picture at Noon, Pot-Luck Lunch to Follow

Horsham Friends Meeting 2021

Jim Hallowell and Sam Conard

Jim Hallowell and Sam Conard (both Peter Branch) are farmers and have the hands to prove it! It's rare for a farmer to live to age 65 and keep all ten fingers. Photo taken 9/11/21 at Horsham Friends Meeting.

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Kunders, an humble wool dyer from the banks of the Rhine, who, settling in the untrodden wilds of America, and pursuing the even tenor of a modest and uneventful life, “builded better than he knew.”

Robert Proud, in his history of Pennsylvania says, “Among the first Germantown settlers was Dennis Conrad. The first religious meeting of the Quakers, in that place, was held at his house in 1683. He was a hospitable, well-disposed man, of an inoffensive life and good character.”

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