Captain Pierre-Joseph Landry, fils

• Sources:
  • "Acadian Immigrants to San Gabriel/Manchac, 1785 " - http://www.acadiansingray.com
    • At St.-Servan 1770-72
    • Arrived la Lusiaiana 1785, age 15, probably aboard La Ville d'Archangel
    • Served as CPT, 8th Co., Meriam's Regiment LA Militia, War of 1812

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• Notes:
  • Arrived in current day Louisiana 1785

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Captain Pierre Joseph Landry was born January 9, 1770, the son of Pierre (Pedro) Joseph Landry Sr.and Marie Josephe (Josef) Hebert. Pierre Jr. came to Louisiana from France in 1785 with his mother and maternal grandfather, Charels Hebert. They settled in Iberville Parish. After the lost of his mother, he "was not a major", so his paternal uncles filed the petiotion for her probate. He married on June 30, 1790, Scholastique Breau, daughter of Joseph Breau and Marie Josephe Landry. Scholastique died in 1802 after the birth of her 6th child. Pierre married again on January 16, 1804, to Marguerite Rosalie Capdeville; this wife died in 1804 after childbirth. He remarried for a third time to Henriette Ebere (Hebert). He became a sugar planter in Iberville receiving a land grant on the west bank of the Mississippi River having a 10 arpent, 6 toises frontage on the river, by depth of 40 arpents.Was a 1st Lt. of a company in Miriam's Militia, the 8th Regiment, La. Militia, for defense of lower coast and New Orleans in the War of 1812. He was known as Captain Landry. Headstone erected by Daughter of 1812 in memory of him.