Stephen4 Landers (Ebenezer3, Thomas2-1), was born ca. 1733, and bapt. in Wareham 25 July 1742.

Like his brother Ebenezer, this man seems to have moved away from Sharon, Conn., and disappeared. We call attention to the fact that Stephen Landers is listed as head of a family at Shepardsville Plantation, Cumberland County, Me., in the 1790 Census.1 Can some reader identify this man?

  1. This seems a suitable place to call attention to the existance of two Landers families which seem not to be connected with Thomas1 Landers family. The first is a fairly prolific family group which appears in Salem, Essex County, Mass., circa 1717. Several males in this group (which seems to have retained the Launders spelling) enlisted from Salem in the Revolution. We catch a glimpse of the family again in the 1790 Census when two Jonathans, two Sarahs, Mary and Peter Launder or Launders headed households in Salem. The published Vital Records of Salem... enable us to make a rough chart of the family, and it is our impression that this clan was an exception to the restless rule, as we have not run across them in other places. The other unconnected family group is that which is treated in The History of the Landers Family in America (1963), by S. E. Boozer & Mary A. Landers Payne. The compilers have done a great deal of original research in tracing the descendants of a Luke and Rachel (Paris) Landers. These spread out from Virginia, through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, etc. - but we have been unable to fit them into the Thomas1 Landers family, and suspect that they were a distinct group, the progenitor of which may have come directly to Virginia. Finally, Samuel Landers is listed as the head of a family in Wethersfield, Conn., in the 1790 Census. The name Samuel does not appear in the Thomas1 Landers group, but there were several of that name in the Salem group.

[Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas1 Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:266]

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