Birthdate and place from Arsenault, Vol 2, page 612. Footnote 66 says
that there were two Rene Landrys in Acadia, this one (the older) wo
appears in the census of 1671, and another who appears in 1678 and was
born in 1634.
3212. Michel Richard dit Sansoucy
Birth and death information from Arsenault, Vol 2, page 753. He
arrived in Acadia with the expedition of Emmanuel LeBorgne and
Guilbault, in 1652, or the preceeding year, with Lord de Saint-Mas, the
representative of LeBorgne (ibid, with cross reference to Arsenault's
Histoire des Acadiens and Louis Richard, Memoires de la Societe
Genealogique Canadienne-Francaise, vol VI, No. 1, January 1954).In the 1678 census, he is enumerated without a wife, living on 10
acres with 21 cattle, four boys ages 22, 19, 13, and 10 (born in 1656,
1659, 1665, and 1668, respectively) and five girls ages 8 (twins), 6, 3,
and 1 (born in 1670, 1672, 1675, and 1677, respectively). Presumably
Madeleine Blanchard had died following the birth of the one year old.
Birth information from Arsenault, Vol 2, page 431. I have assigned date of death between last known birth (1677) and the enumeration of Michel alone in the 1678 census.
He was clerk of the court in Port-Royal, arrived in Acadia around 1645 (Arsenault, Vol 2, page 721), and on 2 June 1681 on the St. John River, at Menagoneck, he was godfather to Jeanne Guidry, daughter of Claude Guidry dit LaVerdure and Keskoua, an Indian (deVille, Winston; Acadian Church Records, vol 1 [1964], page 3).