Adam Conde

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Adam Conde lived in Albany during the mid 1720s. Probably born during the early 1700s, we seek information on his origins and path to Albany.

Traditional sources tell us that the Conde family is of French origins and appeared in Schenectady after this individual left Albany. At least Two family-based resources tell us that Adam Conde's parents were Huguenot refugees who died of a fever at sea en route from Holland to North America and that Adam was adopted and raised by the Lansing family of Albany. These sources hold that young Adam arrived in New York in 1704.

If he was living with the family of Johannes G. Lansing, the boy would have grown up in the first ward home of a mainline middling Albanian whose marriage in 1704 would produce a number of surviving children. However, we have encountered no references in the community-based record to Conde within any Lansing family.

He first appears on the community landscape in 1724, when Conde was appointed constable for the first ward by the Albany city council. In September 1725, he was chosen high constable. After that, his name has not been encountered in the community-based resources that form the backbone of our inquiry.

In November 1736, he married Catherine De Graff of Schenectady at the Dutch church in that village. The union produced at least six children who spread out in Schenectady and its environs. His name has not been found in the extant records of the Albany Dutch church.

Adam Conde was among those killed at Beukendal (outside of Schenectady) in July 1748.


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the people of colonial Albany Sources: The life of Adam Conde has no CAP biography number. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources. Family lore has been published as "The Genealogy of the Conde Family in America," by Stephen Elmer Slocum in NYGBR (April 1928) and perhaps separately as well.
Copied from Conde in Hawaii: "From The Genealogy of the Conde Family in America by Stephen Elmer Slocum, PhD - Printed in 1928 in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Adam CONDE -1748 m.1736 Catherine de GRAAF 1719- (dau. of Jesse de GRAFF & Aeltie (Alida) HENNISON). A descendant of Godfrey do Conde, A Huguenot of the Sixteenth Century, from the Royal family of France. His parents died on the ship as they immigrated. He came probably after 1704. He lived with the Johannes LANSING 1675-1771 in Albany, NY He and Catherine lived near Schenectady, NY. They belonged to the Reformed Dutch Church of Schenectady. Children: Johannes 1738-probably early, Alida 1740-1838, Jesse 1742/3-, Eva 1745- , Adam 1748-1824."




first posted 3/10/14