spouse: Cordeau, Claire (1771 - >1837)Occupation - [date: 1811]
a fishermanChristening - [date: 03 NOV 1766] [place: St. Piere & Miquelon, France]
spouse: Josse, Gertrude (~1796 - <1836)Census - [date: 1811] [place: River Bourgeois, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada]
Thought to be the bridge generation between Jean Baptiste Landry and the elder Marguite Landry, but not firmly established.spouse: Boucher, Anne Marie dit Villedieu (~1754 - 1840)
spouse: Lejeune, Scholastique (*1768 - )Christening - [date: 01 JUL 1764] [place: St. Piere & Miquelon, France]
spouse: Girroir, Jean Baptiste (*1755 - )Christening - [date: 1771] [place: Arichat, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada]
Christening - [date: 01 NOV 1886] [place: St. John the Baptist, River Bourgeois, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada]
Christening - [date: 28 SEP 1890] [place: St. John the Baptist, River Bourgeois, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada]
All of Jean Claude Landry's grandchildren were born in or around Port Royal.spouse: Salles, Marie Denys (~1595 - )
However, by the 1670s, the region which included the small town and the farming settlements along the Riviere des Dauphins was getting crowded. Available farmland was becoming scarce, and several Acadian families began looking to the east for more land to cultivate. Pierre Melanson was alsready established on the banks of the Bassin des Mines about 60 miles east of Port Royal.
In the late summer of 1680, a group of Acadians including two sons of Rene Landry, Anthoine and Claude, moved east to join Pierre Melanson on the Bassin des Mines. The grop included Pierre Therriot, who would later become the brother in law of Anthoine and Claude. The group first built a house for Pierre Therriot that served as shelter for the entire group through the first winter. Then they began clearing high ground through the autumn and winter in order to construct home sites for the others. In the spring they returned to the Port Royal region to plant and prepare the crop. After the next harvest, the group returned to the Bassin to continue the preparatory work for the new settlement.The work done by this small group of settlers was the foundation of the settlement of Grand Pre, which later became famous as a principal point of embarkation for Acadian settlers during the deportation in 1755. Antoine and Claude Landry eventually settled at Bassin des Mines with their fiamilies on the banks of the Riviere des Habitants. The other married brothers and sisters of Anthoine and Claude follwed them to the area.According to documentiaion by Paul Surette, an Acadian historian from Moneton, New Brunswick.It should be noted here that establishing this settlement took several years and lots of hard work. In addition to building homes and clearing the land, a system of dykes had to be built. The Bassin des Mines was known for having high tides that would inundate the land daily. The dykes saved the land from the tides, but it was several years in the process before the land could be cultivated. The result of this effort was the most fertile farmland in North America.
----------child: Samson, Elizabeth (~1825 - 1903)Census - [date: 1881] [place: River Bourgeois, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada]
spouse: Clerget, Anne (~1742 - )Residence - [date: BETWEEN 1761 AND 1762] [place: La Rochelle, France]
Residence - [date: 1767] [place: Chezzetcook, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada]
Residence - [date: 1789] [place: River Bourgeois, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada]