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57. Rachel Freeman was born on 4 Sep 1659 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽¹⁴³⁾⁽¹⁴⁴⁾⁽¹⁴⁵⁾⁽²⁰⁾⁽²¹⁾⁽¹¹⁸⁾⁽¹⁴⁶⁾⁽¹⁴⁷⁾⁽³²⁾⁽¹⁴⁸⁾⁽¹⁵⁾⁽²⁹⁾ She died on 7 Oct 1709 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽¹⁴⁹⁾ ⁽²⁰⁾⁽²¹⁾⁽¹⁵⁰⁾⁽¹⁴⁷⁾⁽¹⁵⁾⁽¹⁰⁾ She was buried in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽¹⁰⁾ She has Ancestral File number 8MKF-VL. Also have birth date as 7 Sep 1659. [Savage, Gen. Dictionary, 1965]
The last digit in the birth year is smudged, but appears to be a 9. [jl]
Also have birth as 4 Sep 1659 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA. [Descendants of William Kirby http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/r/a/Steven-G-Gray/index.html] [LDS AFN 8MKF-VL]

She was married to John Landers (son of Thomas Landers and Jane Kirby) about 1686 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽²¹⁾⁽¹⁴⁷⁾⁽³²⁾⁽¹⁵⁾⁽²⁹⁾ John Landers⁽¹⁰⁾ was born on 2 Jan 1653/54 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽¹⁵¹⁾⁽¹⁵²⁾⁽²⁰⁾⁽²⁵⁾⁽¹⁷⁾⁽²¹⁾⁽¹⁵⁰⁾⁽¹⁴⁷⁾⁽¹⁵⁾⁽²⁹⁾ He died on 15 Apr 1737 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽¹⁵³⁾ ⁽²⁰⁾⁽²⁵⁾⁽¹⁷⁾⁽²¹⁾⁽¹⁴⁷⁾⁽¹⁵⁾⁽²⁹⁾ He has Ancestral File number 8MM7-6J. John2 Landers (Thomas1), born 2 Jan 1653/54, died in Sandwich 15 Apr 1737 (May. Des. 29:28).
He married about 1686 Rachel Freeman, daughter of Edmond2 Freeman by his second wife, Margaret (Perry) Freeman, born in Sandwich 4 Sep 1659,* died 7 Oct ?1709.
It is interesting to note that Edmond2 Freeman, Rachel's father, then aged fifteen, came to New England on the same ship with John's father who was then aged 22. The young men went together to Lynn and later to Sandwich, so it is not surprising that three of Thomas Landers' sons married three daughters of Edmond Freeman, as will be seen. Proof that Rachel Freeman married this John Landers is to be found in the final distribution of the estate of Edmond Freeman, dated 9 Jun 1705, by which under an "agreement of the children of the deceased", payment was made "To John Landers and Rachel his wife" £1.6s. (Barnstable County Probates, 2:190; see also "Edmond Freeman of Sandwich" in The American Genealogist, 40:108, Apr 1964).
In 1672 John Launders turned in two dozen blackbirds' heads, thus proving to his descendants that, as a teenager, he was a fair shot. His name appears in a list, dated 8 Oct 1691, of Sandwich townsmen (Frederick Freeman, "Annals of Sandwich": History of Cape Cod, 2:82).
We find no probate of his estate; he evidently died intestate. It seems probable that he distributed both real and personal estate by deeds, as was frequently done at that period, but proof of this is not forthcoming because of the fire of 1827 which destroyed all but two of the volumes of land records of Barnstable County.

* The last digit of the year of birth of Rachel Freeman "has been marked over. Savage (1860) and Freeman (1862) both show 1659" notes G. E. Bowman in May. Des., 14:110. We have found no original record of her death. But, again, M. E. Cooley (The Cooley Genealogy, 1941, 2:872) gives the date shown above without reference. Rachel was living 9 Jun 1705, so the date shown by Cooley is not inconsistent with known data, but proof is lacking.

[Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas1 Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:45-46]

Father: Thomas Lynn Landers Mother: Jane Kirbie. Another birth date given is 2 Nov 1653. SOURCES: A5 E11 P. 33. Freeman Gen "Mayflower Desc." Vol 14, P. 106; Vol 29 P 30-33. Rex Sketch by F.E. "Landers", Webster City, Iowa in 1909; Freeman Gen. 929.2 F 85. [Kindred Konnections]

Also have birth as 23 Jan 1651 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. [Kindred Konnections]
Also have birth as 2 Nov 1653. [Kindred Konnections]
Also have death as 4 Mar 1737. [Kindred Konnections]
Also have death as 4 Mar 1738/39 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. [Descendants of William Kirby http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/r/a/Steven-G-Gray/index.html]
Also have death as 4 Mar 1739 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. [LDS AFN 8MM7-6J] Rachel Freeman and John Landers had the following children:

+127 i. Alice Landers.
128 ii. Richard Landers was born on 6 Mar 1688/89 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽¹⁵⁴⁾⁽¹⁵⁵⁾⁽²⁰⁾⁽²¹⁾⁽¹¹⁸⁾⁽¹⁴⁷⁾⁽¹⁵⁾⁽²⁹⁾ He died after 25 May 1730. Richard3, b. 6 March 1688/9; no death record found, but he evidently died intestate (and unmarried?).* He is described as "of Sandwich" when he, his brother John and Gershom Tobey, by a deed 25 May 1730, bought a tract of land in Bridgewater. The Rev. Benjamin Fessenden's lists of Sandwich householders in 1730 lists this Richard Landers (#110) as head of a family. It is possible that Richard's household then consisted of his widowed father and his two unmarried sisters, Deborah and Margaret. Since no probate of his estate is to be found, he probably distributed his real estate and other property by deeds which were destroyed in the 1827 fire at Barnstable.

* Mrs. Hannah Landers of Sandwich published her intentions of marriage to Mr. John Bursley of Barnstable, 4 Feb. 1743 (Barnstable Vital Records in the May. Des. 33:166). The Sandwich Town Records show the death of Hannah Bursley, wife of John, 29 Nov. 1744. We can not place this Hannah Landers, but Bursley was the sea captain, John3 (John2-1), the widower of Mary Crocker. We suggest that Capt. John Bursley, b. 1 Mar 1677/8, would have been the right age to marry the widow of this Richard Landers if instead of having been unmarried, he died childless leaving a widow Hannah.

[Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas1 Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:46]

Also have death as May 1730 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. [Descendants of Thomas Landers http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/i/l/Maureen-K-Dilley/BOOK-0001/ 0009-0001.html]
+129 iii. William Landers.
130 iv. Deborah Landers was born on 19 Oct 1691 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽¹⁵⁶⁾⁽¹⁵⁷⁾⁽²⁰⁾⁽²¹⁾⁽¹¹⁸⁾⁽¹⁴⁷⁾⁽¹⁵⁾⁽²⁹⁾ She died in 1769 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽¹⁵⁸⁾⁽²⁰⁾⁽²¹⁾⁽¹⁴⁷⁾⁽¹⁵⁾⁽²⁹⁾ Deborah3, b. 19 Oct. 1691; d. unmar. in 1769, ae. 78 (Sandwich 1st Church Records); admitted to full communion 21 Oct. 1716 (ibid.). She witnessed the will of her brother John3 Landers 2 March 1737/8.
[Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas1 Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:46]

+131 v. John Landers.
132 vi. Margaret Landers was born on 30 Aug 1697 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽¹⁵⁹⁾⁽¹⁶⁰⁾⁽²⁰⁾⁽²¹⁾⁽¹¹⁸⁾⁽¹⁴⁷⁾⁽¹⁵⁾⁽²⁹⁾ She died in 1770 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽²¹⁾⁽¹⁴⁷⁾⁽¹⁵⁾⁽²⁹⁾ She was buried in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. Margaret3, b. 30 Aug 1697; d. unmar. in 1770, ae. 73 (Sandwich 1st Church Records); admitted to full communion 2 Jan 1715/6 (ibid.); she also witnessed the will of her brother John.
[Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas1 Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:46]
+133 vii. Ebenezer Landers.