braham⁵ Landers (John^4-3-2, Thomas¹), born 22 May 1752; died "Abraham Landers, formerly of Sandwich" in Brighton, Maine, ae. 83 (Index of Deaths in Massachusetts Centinel & Columbian Centinel 1784-1840, comp. by the American Antiquarian Society).

He married about 1776 Mehitable⁵ Bates, daughter of John⁴ Bates (Samuel³, Samuel², Clement¹), by his wife Abigail⁴ (Blackwell) Bates, daughter of Samuel³ Blackwell and Mary³ (Smith) Blackwell of Sandwich, born in Sandwich 19 Feb 1748/9, died after 5 Sep 1785. The will of her grandmother Mary Blackwell's spinster sister, Jane³ Smith of Sandwich, dated at Sandwich 5 Sep 1785 gives "To my kinswoman Abigail Bates wife of John Bates" and "To Mehitable Launders daughter of said Abigail Bates" (Barnstable County Probates, 26:363-4).

He served as a private on an alarm dated Sep 1778, in Capt. Simeon Fish's company, Col. Freeman's Regiment, made up of men from Falmouth and Dartmouth (note: Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution lists him as Abraham Lardors). As Abraham Landers he served in the same company on a Falmouth alarm dated at Sandwich, from 11 to 14 Sep 1779. Soon after this he evidently moved to Maine where the 1790 Census lists him as the head of a family of one male over 16, four males under 16, and two females at Winslow, Lincoln County. [Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas¹ Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:274]

Also have death as in Winslow, Lincoln, ME. [Descendants of Thomas Landers]

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