hankful⁴, b. 21 July 1713; mar. 25 March 1736 Abel Wood (int. he "late of Plymouth", Vital Records of Rochester, vol. 1, p. 198).¹ They removed with her parents to Sharon, Conn., in 1748.

1. This is one of the many instances where a misreading of the name Sanders for Landers has led researchers astray. A copy of the Wareham Church records shows that "Thankful Landers now Lothrop" was dismissed to the East Parish Church in Barnstable, 29 Sept. 1745. She was really Thankful Saunders, fourth of the seven children of Henry³ & Ann (Bates) Saunders [Sanders] of Sandwich and Wareham, b. ca. 1706, bapt. 20 June 1708 in the First Church of Sandwich, whose intentions to marry John Lothrop were published 15 Sept. 1744 ("Vital Records of Barnstable" - May. Des., 33:166); she was the second wife of John Lothrop - see E. B. Huntington, A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family (1884), p. 67.

[Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas¹ Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:60]

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