saiah⁵ Landers (Thomas⁴, Ebenezer³, Thomas^2-1), born, probably at Stockbridge, about 1769, died in 1844 (D.A.R. Lineage Book 115:290; 118:242).

He married, perhaps in the vicinity of Harpersfield, Armstrong County, N.Y., about 1789 Thirza Phelps, born 1768, died in 1836 (ibid.).

He is listed in the Census of 1790 as head of a family of one male over 16, and two females. At the time of the census he was living in the same neighborhood with his two older brothers, Ebenezer and Joseph, who may have had a grant there as compensation for their Revolutionary service.

Further search is needed here in New York State records, but we suspect that these three brothers who were at Harpersfield in 1790 probably went some ten miles westward to the banks of the Susquehannah River and there travelled by boat down river to Jericho (later called Afton), N.Y., where their father (in his will, 1798) gave them land, though they were already living in Jericho. [Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas¹ Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:280]

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