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133. Ebenezer Landers was born on 13 Mar 1699/1700 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽²⁶⁴⁾⁽²⁶⁵⁾⁽²⁰⁾⁽¹¹⁸⁾⁽¹⁴⁷⁾⁽¹⁵⁾⁽²⁹⁾ He died after 2 May 1731. Ebenezer3 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 http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/i/l/Maureen-K-Dilley/BOOK-0001/ 0009-0001.html]

He was married to Temperance Tobey (daughter of Gershom Tobey and Mehitable Fish) on 9 Dec 1721 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽²⁶⁶⁾⁽²⁶⁷⁾⁽¹¹⁸⁾⁽¹⁴⁷⁾⁽²⁹⁾ Temperance Tobey was born on 21 Apr 1701 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽²⁶⁸⁾⁽²¹⁾⁽¹⁴⁷⁾⁽¹⁵⁾⁽²⁹⁾ She was baptized on 19 Jun 1715 in First Parish of Sandwich, Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽²⁹⁾ She died after 31 Jan 1757 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽²¹⁾⁽¹⁵⁾ Also have death as Feb 1757 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. [Descendants of Thomas Landers http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/i/l/Maureen-K-Dilley/BOOK-0001/ 0009-0001.html] Ebenezer Landers and Temperance Tobey had the following children:

+466 i. Sealed Landers.
467 ii. Jabez Landers was born in 1723 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽²¹⁾ He was christened on 1 Dec 1723 in First Parish of Sandwich, Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽²⁶⁹⁾⁽²⁹⁾ He died before Sep 1747.⁽²¹⁾⁽¹⁵⁾ Jabez4, bapt. in Sandwich 1 Dec 1723; d. shortly before Sep 1747, when Nathaniel Hubbard, Esq., Judge of Probate for Bristol County, appointed "Sealed Landers of Harwich, County Barnstable, clothier" administrator of the estate of "your brother Jabez Landers, late of Dartmouth, County Bristol, cordwainer...lately died intestate" (Bristol County Probates 11:325/6). We find no record that this man had children, but Mary Landers of Dartmouth died intestate before 2 Nov 1756, when Jireh Swift of Dartmouth was appointed administrator. This may have been the widow of Jabez, who seems to be the only Landers to have lived in Dartmouth. [Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas1 Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:55]
468 iii. Gershom Landers was born on 6 Aug 1727 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA.⁽²¹⁾⁽¹⁵⁾ He was christened on 6 Aug 1727 in First Church in Bridgewater, Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA.⁽²⁷⁰⁾⁽²⁷¹⁾⁽²⁹⁾
469 iv. Ebenezer Landers was born on 29 Jun 1729 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽²¹⁾⁽¹⁵⁾ He was christened on 29 Jun 1729 in First Church in Bridgewater, Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA.⁽²⁷²⁾⁽²⁷³⁾⁽²⁹⁾ Also have christening as 29 Jun 1729 in East Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA. [LDS IGI]
470 v. Mehitable Landers was born on 2 May 1731 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.⁽²¹⁾⁽¹⁵⁾ She was christened on 2 May 1731 in First Church in Bridgewater, Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA.⁽²⁷⁴⁾⁽²⁷⁵⁾⁽²⁹⁾ Also have christening as 2 May 1731 in East Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA. [LDS IGI]