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State of Service: ESP
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: abt 1743 / Nova Scotia / Canada Death: abt 28 Dec 1783 / Ascension / LA
Qualifying Service Description:
Louisiana Militia, General Galvez.
Additional References:
Churchill, Charles Robert: Bernardo de Galvez Services to the American Revolution, LASSAR.
Marchand, Sidney A.: The Story of Ascension Parish, Louisiana
LeBlanc, M. M. and Dudley J. Le Blanc: The Acadian Miracle, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
Spouse: Francoise Blanchard Children: Anne Polonia;
Jacques Landry, son of Francois Landry and Dorothee Bourg, was born at Pigiguit, Acadia, Nova Scotia, about 01 January 1743. Young Jacques, along with his family, was deported by the British to Oxford, Maryland, in 1755. Colonial officials counted Jacques and his siblings as detainees at Oxford, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, according to the Baltimore, Maryland, Census of 07 July 1763. Jacques would go on to marry fellow Acadian Francoise Blanchard, in Oxford, Maryland, abt. 1767.
Jacques and Francoise followed his family to Louisiana in 1766 and they settled at Cabanocé, where Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the Mississippi river in 1769. According to the Census of 14 September 1769, they were residing in Cabanocé (Lower), St. James, La., with Jacque age abt. 26, and Francoise, abt. age 22.
On 23 January 1770, age 26, nationality listed as Acadian, Jacques Landry is a fusilier in the Donaldsonville Militia, Cabanocé District, Acadian Coast, left bank of the Mississippi River, under the direct command of Louis Judice. (His name appears on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, La. along with his wife, Francoise.)
According to the Census of 01 August 1770, Jacques and family resided on the left, or east, bank of the Mississippi River at nearby Ascension Parish, Cabanocé (Lower), St. James, La., owning six arpents of land.
During an ill-fated bear hunt on 24 October 1775, Pierre Landry accidently shot his brother Jacques. Jacques was taken to the residence of the local surgeon, Doctor Francois Mollere who administered emergency medical attention. Pierre was place in irons pending an investigation, but Jacques stated that it was an accident and Pierre was released.
In the Census of 15 April 1777, Jacques, age 34, owned a six arpent frontage property located on the Mississippi River, with five horses, fourteen cows, five hogs, and one musket as well as another five arpent parcel of land frontage on the Mississippi River.
On 05 February 1778, Jacques sold a parcel of eight arpent frontage. Improvements on the property included a house of sol construction (term for French underground construction) measuring twenty feet by fifteen feet.
On 07 September 1779, Jacques Landry and the Donaldsonville Militia are included in the force assembled by Gálvez that marched and captured the British Fort Bute at Manchac, Louisiana, before moving on to capture the British fort at Baton Rouge.
Jacques Landry died on 29 December 1783, at age 40, and he was interred the same day at Ascension Parish, La. During his lifetime, he lived under the flags of Acadia, Britain, and Spain.
Jacques Landry fathered nine children. His sons Desire Joseph, Donet Desire, and Victor Martin, would go on to fight against the British in the War of 1812 as Pvts., 6th Regiment, Landry’s Militia.
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