Michel  RICHARD dit SANSOUCY

Michel Richard-Sansoucy arrived in Acadia in 1649 with expedition Emmanuel LeBorgne. He was a soldier and a farmer.

He married the twelve-year-old daughter of Jean Blanchard and Radegonde Lambert in 1656 in Port Royal, Acadia Canada.


"First came Michel Richard dit Sansoucy, a young soldier born in the Saintonge region in c1630. He appeared at Port-Royal in the early 1650s in the entourage of Emmanuel Le Borgne de Bélisle. According to one source, Michel's dit was a regimental nickname. When his term of service ended, he remained in the colony, took up farming, obtained two grants of land from Le Borgne "at some ten to fifteen miles from the fort" on the upper Rivière au Dauphin, now the Annapolis River, and married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Blanchard, at Port-Royal in c1656. He and Madeleine had 10 children, including four sons, all born at Port-Royal, who created families of their own. Their six daughters married into the Broussard, Thériot, Babin, Vincent, Forest, and LeBlanc families. Michel dit Sansoucy's wife Madeleine died by c1683, when he remarried to Jeanne, daughter of Antoine Babin, at Port-Royal. Jeanne gave the old soldier two more children, both of them sons, also born at Port-Royal, who also created their own familie.s"

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