ealed⁴ Landers (Ebenezer³, John², Thomas¹), born ca. 1722, baptized 3 March 1722/3 (Sandwich Church Records), died after 1760, probably Yarmouth, N.S.

He married, first (int. 27 Sept. 1746) Sarah Crowell, daughter of Christopher⁴ and Sarah³ (Matthews) Crowell of Yarmouth, born ca. 1725, died before 5 Dec. 1751 (Harwich Vital Records in May. Desc. 25:62).

He married, secondly, 5 Dec. 1751 Thankful³ Handy, daughter of John² and Keziah (Wing) Handy of Sandwich, born in Sandwich 27 Feb. 1725. At the time of his second marriage he is called "of Sandwich" (Sandwich Town Records).

Sealed Landers is called "of Harwich" at the publishment of his first marriage in 1746 and, again, in Sept. 1747 when he was appointed administrator of his brother Jabez Landers’ estate he is called "of Harwich, Clothier". From this we think it possible that his two sons by the first wife, Sarah Crowell, were born in Harwich, and that he may have removed to Sandwich after Sarah’s death, perhaps about 1750, back to his native Sandwich, where his widowed mother may have cared for his children until the second marriage. When he married Thankful Handy he was living in Sandwich, so it is likely that the younger children were born there, although the death date of his child in 1760 is recorded in the Plymouth Church volume, so perhaps he lived there for a time.

However, he is called "of Sandwich" in June 1761 when he sailed aboard a schooner, with Moses Perry and Ebenezer Ellis, for Nova Scotia.¹ The Rev. J. R. Campbell tells us that Sealed Landers’ name appears in a list of grantees at Yarmouth in 1767, and it seems clear that he prospered. In a phamphlet Historic Sites, published by the Yarmouth Town & Country Tourist Assn., there appears a picture of "one of the mill stones used by Sealed Landers in his grist mill, erected at Milton (now Yarmouth North), this millstone said to have been brought from New England by Sealed Landers... and used by him in his mill built about 1770".²

1. See The Landers Family, #85 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Genealogies published in The Yarmouth Herald, 18 Jan. 1898 (copy in the Society's library). Also, see George S. Brown, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (1888), and the Rev. J. R. Campbell’s History of the Town of Yarmouth, N. S. (1876). These sources agree that the Landers, Perry and Ellis, founders of the town, arrived in Chebogue Harbor on Tuesday 9 June 1761, that all three came from Sandwich, Mass., and that all had many descendants.
2. Mrs. Neal Landers tells us she received in 1961 confirmation of this in a letter from Mr. George Moses, of the Cape Cod Standard Times, who has a farm near the site of the Landers mill. He says that Landers built the first mill in Yarmouth County, the first frame house in the town, and that the millstone is still there, marked by a bronze placque commemorating the date and the event. Mrs. Neal Landers has had correspondence also with Mrs. Karl J. Shaw, curator of the Yarmouth Historical Museum where further data may be found.

[Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas1 Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:218-219]

On Tuesday 9 June 1761 the first vessel arrived [in Yarmouth harbor], having on board three families who all came from Sandwich Cape Cod -- Sealed Landers, Ebenezer Ellis and [the latter's brother-in-law] Moses Perry. (The Register, vol. 115, p. 271, October 1961) [NEHGS 121:133, April 1967]

Also have birth as 3 Mar 1721/22 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. [Descendants of Thomas Landers]

Also have marriage as 27 Sep 1746 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. [Descendants of Thomas Landers]
Also have marriage as 11 Dec 1746 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA. [LDS, 1984 MA, p. 21,883]

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