athan3 Landers (Thomas2-1)
was born 20 Aug. 1687; he died in Wareham, probably shortly
before 21 March 1765 when his will was proved.athan3 Landers (Thomas2-1)
was born 20 Aug. 1687; he died in Wareham, probably shortly
before 21 March 1765 when his will was proved.
He married 14 June 1721 Prudence Barlow, daughter of Nathan and Mary Barlow of Sandwich. He is called of Rochester in the Sandwich Town Records. She was born, probably in Sandwich, about 1699; died, probably in Wareham, after 11 July 1775. Nathan Barlow, who died in Sandwich 15 Dec. 1744, in his will, dated 6 April 1737, gives five sheep to his daughter Prudence, but he does not designate any of his daughters by their married names (Barnstable County Probates, 6:430, 431, 432).
No doubt he accompanied his family when his father removed to Rochester about 1702. A deed, dated 8 Oct. 1714 and recorded 15 April 1724, shows that "Nathan Landers of Rochester" paid Increase Clapp £100 for a lot and salt meadow on Cromesset Neck, Rochester, described as having been Barnabas Lothrop’s sixth lot at first (Plymouth County Deeds, 17:192). He purchased adjoining land 21 May 1716, paying Nathaniel Goodspeed £96 for it (ibid., p. 198). In November 1724 he sold for £199, paid by Ebenezer Hamblen, most of his Rochester property (ibid., 18:129). He then is called "blacksmith" and it seems not unlikely that he worked at his trade for a time, rather than to continue farming.
He may have returned to Sandwich about this time because the Rev. Benjamin Fessenden’s "list of heads of family in Sandwich" (March 1730) lists Nathan Landers as #134, so that perhaps his father had deeded to him some property there. He definitely was there by 16 Feb. 1730/1, when he bought from his brother Benjamin Landers, for £150, all of the latter’s "real estate, consisting of housing and lands... wherever may be found, with all my stock, creatures, and all my moveable estate without doors and within. All which my honoured Father Thomas Landers gave me by a deed bearing date the 30th of October 1723; provided always that our Honoured Father Thomas Landers and Mother Deborah Landers shall have and receive the profits and income of ye sd Estate during their and each of their Natural lives and ye said Nathan Landers shall defray the cost and charge of a decent funeral both for our said Father and Mother and allow and pay the sum of £15, either he, his heirs, assigns... unto our three sisters or their heirs of such money as may pass from man to man that is to say £5 to our sister Anna and £5 to our sister Deborah and £5 to our sister Jane" (Plymouth County Deeds, 26:123).
A month later "Nathan Landers of Sandwich", by a deed of 22 March 1730/1, paid Melatiah Bourne, of Sandwich, Esqr., £115 for "a certain mansion house and meadows in Rochester which Bourne describes as the whole right and interest which Ebenezer Landers formerly granted to Silas Bourne [the grantor’s son] and which the sd Silas has since conveyed to me" (ibid. 26:114). Nathan Landers evidently moved into this "mansion house" and decided to sell the family farm which had been his brother Benjamin’s as we find that:
"Nathan Landers of Rochester, blacksmith, [conveyed for £150] paid by David Bessey, now of Rochester... all my real estate, consisting of housing and lands, including six acres... in Plymouth... with all the moveable estate within doors and without [excepting stock, creatures, etc.] as also one half thousand boards all of which my brother Benjamin Landers gave me by deed, February 16, 1730/1". This deed, dated 12 May 1732, reserves an equity in the property, represented by the right of the grantor’s mother (note: the father is not mentioned), and repeats the terms of the earlier deed in reference to two sisters, Deborah and Jane, so evidently the sister Anna had before this date received her share, £5 (ibid. 27:107, 8).
Between 1733 and 1739 Nathan Landers of Rochester bought and sold various other parcels of land, in and near Cromessett Neck, including the island of Quasuit (ibid. 38:259; 39:215 et al).
Nathan Landers and his brothers Joseph and Ebenezer were among those who petitioned the General Court 23 April 1739, requesting that the plantation in Plymouth called Agawam and the easterly portion of Rochester be set off as a separate town (Massachusetts Archives 114:333). The Court concurred, and the town of Wareham was thus established 10 July 1739 (Province Laws 2:992). In subsequent deeds Nathan Landers is called of Wareham; these Prudence also signed, renouncing her dower rights.
The children of Prudence Landers, wife of Nathan, viz: Peleg, Lydia, Nathan, Elizabeth and Jean, were baptized 29 June 1740 (Wareham Church Records).
The will of Nathan Landers of Wareham, dated 20 Dec. 1760, proved 21 March 1765, gives: "To my dearly beloved wife Prudence Landers [one third of his estate during her life or widowhood and] to my three daughters Lidia Blackwell, Elizabeth Briggs and Jane Clark" [and] "To my grand daughter Deliverance Landers, daughter of my son Peleg Landers, deceased". He makes his son Nathan Landers residuary legatee. Witnessed: Thomas Whitten, Elizabeth Streeter and [the Rev.] Rowland Thatcher (Plymouth County Probates 19:209). He was mentioned in the will of his brother Benjamin Landers of Sharon, Conn. 5 May 1760 (Sharon Probates, original docket 1995).
The widow Prudence Landers survived her husband for more than a decade, as proved by a deed dated 11 July 1775, by which Nathan Landers sells an undivided tract on Quasuit Island which he held in common with his sisters Lydia Blackwell, Elizabeth Briggs and Jane Clark, the property being subject to an equity during the "life of my Honoured Mother" (Plymouth County Deeds, 62:144). [Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas1 Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:55-57]
By a deed of 15 July 1731/32, recorded 12 July 1732, Joshua Gibbs of Agawam [Wareham], for £150 paid by Nathan Landers of Rochester, sold certain parcels of land "lying near the sd Joshua Gibbs his dwelling house", containing upland and meadow land which he and Jireh Swift had bought from the Bartletts, situated on the northwesterly side of Agawam River, on the Southerly side of the country road leading from Agawam to Sandwich (Plymouth County Deeds, 27:106). [NEHGS 123:135, April 1969]
