athan⁴ Landers (Nathan³, Thomas^2-1), born ca. 1728, was still living in Shoreham, Vt., in 1790. [Note: When this Nathan was listed under his father's children, b. date was given as ca.1730. jl]

He married 25 Jan. 1753 Ruth Benson "of Middleborough" (Vital Records of Middleborough in the May. Des., 19:46), died after 1790, probably in Vermont.

He, with four of his siblings, was baptized in the Wareham church 29 June 1740. Although the Wareham church records show the marriages of these, his own marriage is not shown there; perhaps he and Ruth attended church in Middleborough. He inherited, as only surviving son, the residuary estate of his father.

By a deed of 11 July 1775 (acknowledged 15 Nov. 1777 - recorded 9 Dec. 1783) he sold, for £106.4d, paid by David Nye, gentleman, of the same town, "a certain tract of land and salt meadow in sd Wareham containing the whole of a certain island called Quansuet... nineteen acres, now undivided, with my three sisters, viz: Lydia Blackwell, Elizabeth Briggs and Jane Clark, who are the owners of the other half of sd meadow... bounded Westerly by Samuel Swift’s and Seth Hiller’s meadow… and also one third of the improvement of my sisters’ meadow during the life of my Honoured Mother." Witness: Benjamin Briggs, Josiah Stevens (Plymouth County Deeds, 62:144).

By a deed of 11 July 1776 "Nathan Landers of Wareham... yeoman" for £126.13s.4d paid by Josiah Stevens of same, conveyed a tract of 150 acres in Wareham, "it being the whole of my homestead and lands, with the dwelling house... buildings and grist mill on the Wiwewentett River... also my right of undivided lands in Rochester." The wife, Ruth, renounced her dower rights (acknowledged 15 Oct. 1777; recorded 13 July 1778 - Plymouth County Deeds, 59:156).

That he disposed of his property in order to move West is shown by the folliwing deed dated 6 Sept. 1776; "Nathan Landers of Wareham" paid £100 for a tract of land in Lenox, Berkshire County - it being the south west corner of Lot #13 there (Berkshire County Deeds - recorded 28 Feb. 1791, vol. 30, p.10). By a deed dated 22 April 1785 he paid £430 for the north west corner of the same lot, when he is called Nathan Landers of Lenox (ibid., p.79).

With typical American restlessness Nathan Landers moved to Vermont; in the 1790 Census he is listed at Shoreham, Addison County, Vermont, head of a family of one male over and two under sixteen years and three females. We know that two of his sons, Aquila and Peleg, enlisted as soldiers in the Revolution from Lenox; that Aquila was still in Lenox in the 1790 census, but that he deposed at Shoreham, Vermont, in 1799, so he evidently followed his father there.

Children, Wareham Town Records. [Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas¹ Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:219-220]

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