benezer³ Landers (John², Thomas¹), born 13 March 1699/1700, died after 2 May 1731, but neither the date nor the place of his death has come to light.

He married 19 Dec. 1721 Temperance³ Tobey, daughter of Gershom² and Mehitable (Fish) Tobey of Sandwich, born in Sandwich 21 April 1701, died after 31 Jan. 1757 (Sandwich Town Records). It would appear that Temperance (Tobey) Landers survived her husband many years. The will, dated 31 Jan. 1757, proved 6 March 1759, of Gershom² Tobey of Sandwich, names "my daughter Temperance", so she was living at that date. The testator does not refer to any of his daughters by their married names, so it is possible that Temperance remarried after the death of her first husband though we have found no record to suggest that she did.

The baptisms of his first two children are recorded in Sandwich, so he probably lived there until after 1723, but probably shortly thereafter he moved to that section of Bridgewater which was set off as East Bridgewater in 1823. A deed, dated 25 May 1730, and recorded the same day, shows that "Ebenezer Launders of Bridgewater … cordwainer" conveyed for £299.15s., paid by Richard Landers and John Landers, the grantor’s brothers, and Gershom Tobey, his father-in-law, all "of Sandwich … husbandmen … a certain messuage or tract of land in Bridgewater, County of Plymouth, and is the farm where Barnabas Seabury lately dwelt, with all the buildings, Housings, orchards, fences and timber … It being what I purchased of Samuell Seabury, of Duxbury by deed 3 April 1727" (Plymouth County Deeds 25:133/4).

As this man was by trade a cordwainer, he may have plied the trade elsewhere. The Vital Records of Bridgewater tells us nothing concerning his family. However, in the Vital Records of East Bridgewater, published in 1917, additional data is found. Here we find Gershom Landers, baptized in August 1727, as "on of Ebenezer of Sandwich". The reference given is to P. R. 5 (a private record, from a copy made by Judge Nahum Mitchell of the records of the 1st Church of East Bridgewater, with additions and corrections by the copyist). The baptisms of the three children, Gershom, Ebenezer, and Mehitable, were taken from a copy of the 1st Church Records, the "originals having disappeared".

Several writers have confused this man with his cousin Ebenezer³ Landers (1699-1758), son of Thomas² Landers. The two were almost exactly the same age, but the cousin is clearly identified by the deeds in which he is always called "of Rochester, husbandman". [Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas¹ Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:54]

Also have death as May 1731 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. [Descendants of Thomas Landers]

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