TENTH GENERATION

491. Nathan Landers was born about 1730 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. ^(21)(15) He was baptized on 29 Jun 1740 in Wareham, Plymouth, MA.⁽⁵³⁴⁾ He died after 1790. He has Ancestral File number Z3RD-FG. Nathan4 Landers (Nathan3, Thomas2, Thomas1), born ca. 1728, was still living in Shoreham, Vt., in 1790. [Note: When this Nathan was listed under his father's children, b. date was given as ca.1730. jl]

He married 25 Jan. 1753 Ruth Benson "of Middleborough" (Vital Records of Middleborough in the May. Des., 19:46), died after 1790, probably in Vermont.

He, with four of his siblings, was baptized in the Wareham church 29 June 1740. Although the Wareham church records show the marriages of these, his own marriage is not shown there; perhaps he and Ruth attended church in Middleborough. He inherited, as only surviving son, the residuary estate of his father.

By a deed of 11 July 1775 (acknowledged 15 Nov. 1777 - recorded 9 Dec. 1783) he sold, for £106.4d, paid by David Nye, gentleman, of the same town, "a certain tract of land and salt meadow in sd Wareham containing the whole of a certain island called Quansuet... nineteen acres, now undivided, with my three sisters, viz: Lydia Blackwell, Elizabeth Briggs and Jane Clark, who are the owners of the other half of sd meadow... bounded Westerly by Samuel Swift’s and Seth Hiller’s meadow… and also one third of the improvement of my sisters’ meadow during the life of my Honoured Mother." Witness: Benjamin Briggs, Josiah Stevens (Plymouth County Deeds, 62:144).

By a deed of 11 July 1776 "Nathan Landers of Wareham... yeoman" for £126.13s.4d paid by Josiah Stevens of same, conveyed a tract of 150 acres in Wareham, "it being the whole of my homestead and lands, with the dwelling house... buildings and grist mill on the Wiwewentett River... also my right of undivided lands in Rochester." The wife, Ruth, renounced her dower rights (acknowledged 15 Oct. 1777; recorded 13 July 1778 - Plymouth County Deeds, 59:156).

That he disposed of his property in order to move West is shown by the folliwing deed dated 6 Sept. 1776; "Nathan Landers of Wareham" paid £100 for a tract of land in Lenox, Berkshire County - it being the south west corner of Lot #13 there (Berkshire County Deeds - recorded 28 Feb. 1791, vol. 30, p.10). By a deed dated 22 April 1785 he paid £430 for the north west corner of the same lot, when he is called Nathan Landers of Lenox (ibid., p.79).

With typical American restlessness Nathan Landers moved to Vermont; in the 1790 Census he is listed at Shoreham, Addison County, Vermont, head of a family of one male over and two under sixteen years and three females. We know that two of his sons, Aquila and Peleg, enlisted as soldiers in the Revolution from Lenox; that Aquila was still in Lenox in the 1790 census, but that he deposed at Shoreham, Vermont, in 1799, so he evidently followed his father there.

Children, Wareham Town Records. [Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas1 Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:219-220]

He was married to Ruth Benson on 25 Jan 1753 in Middleboro, Plymouth, MA. ⁽⁵³⁵⁾ Ruth Benson was born about 1732 in of Middleboro, Plymouth, MA.^{(10) (428)} She died after 1790. She has Ancestral File number Z3RD-BX. Nathan Landers and Ruth Benson had the following children:

+1268 i. Sarah Landers.
1269 ii. Aquilla Landers was born on 23 Nov 1755 in Wareham, Plymouth, MA. ^(536)(537) He appeared on the census in 1790 in Lenox, Berkshire, MA. ⁽⁴⁷⁸⁾ He died after 23 Jan 1833. He was buried in Yates, Orleans, NY. Aquila5 Landers (Nathan4-3, Thomas2-1), born 23 Nov. 1755, died after 23 Jan. 1833, when he deposed in Yates, Orleans County, N.Y., aged 77 years (Pension record S-13,617, National Archives).

The name of his wife and date and place of his marriage have not come to light. He probably married near the end of the Revolution, when he was living at Lenox, Mass.

The first record we find of Aquila is as a private, of Wareham, Mass., when he went out on an alarm in the company of Capt. Nathaniel Fearing 19 April 1775, to Marshfield (Massachusetts Soldiers & Sailors in the War of the Revolution (1902)). In Nov. 1775 he served in Capt. Hammond's company, Col. Theophilus Cotton's Regiment, per a return dated at Roxbury (ibid.). In the following year his father Nathan4 Landers moved from Wareham to Lenox in the western part of the province. And so we find that Aquila Landers, now described as having engaged from the town of Lenox, served as a private for a nine month hitch, in a company raised in Berkshire County, of the Continental army, described as "ae. 23, stature 5 ft 6 inches, complexion light". Further service, in 1780, is found under "Aquilla Landris" and "Quilla Sandrus" (ibid.).

Aquila Landers appears in Lenox in the 1790 Census, with a family of one male over 16, three under 16, and four females. His pension file (op. cit.) shows that in 1799 he moved to Shoreham, Vermont, where he appears in the 1800 Census as Aquilla Landon with two boys 10-16, one girl 10-16, as well as his wife, and that from 1822 until his deposition in 1833 he lived at Yates, Orleans County, N.Y.

The 1790 Census indicates that he had three sons and three daughters, probably born in Massachusetts; possibly he had others born in or near Shoreham, Vt. [Was the Nathan Landon in Shoreham in the 1800 Census his son?]. [Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas1 Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:275-276]

Deposition of Aquilla Landers:
State of New York, Orleans County. On this 23d day of January, 1833, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honourable Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, now sitting, Aquilla Landers, a Resident of the Town of Yates, in said County, aged seventy seven years...That he was born in the Town of Wareham, in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, in the year 1755, and that his birth is recorded in a Bible now in possession of the Family. That in April, 1775, immediately after Lexington battle, this deponent enlisted into a Company of Militia comanded by Capt. Edward Hammond, accompanied by Lieut. Timothy Ruggles, and Ens. Nathan Sears, in which he served eight and a half months, as a Private. The Corps to which this Deponent was attached, by whom commanded he does not remember, lay some time at Plymouth, from whence the above Corps in with one other, were ordered to Nantucket, where they intercepted and unloaded a Brig, with a cargo of Flour, branded with the name of General Gage. Took the Flour, with ninety Boats, from Nantucket, up Braintree River, to the neighborhood of the American Camp at Roxbury, where he remained, attached to Col. Cotton's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line, under General Washington until he was discharged in January, 1776, and went home to Wareham. In a few weeks afterwards, a draft was made on that Town for eighteen men, to leave for two months. This Deponent volunteered under Capt. Wing of Plymouth County and lay at Dorchester until two weeks after the British evacuated Boston. Does not recollect who were the Field Officers. At the expiration of two months, he returned home. The next summer he moved to the County of Berkshire. In 1777, this Deponent volunteered under Capt. Goodrich or Guthridge of Lenox, in Col. Rowley's Regiment, in which he served in Bennington battle, and was discharged in one month. In 1779, he again enlisted at Lenox, to serve for nine months. Does not recollect the exact time of the year, nor the name of the Officer under whom he enlisted. Marched to Springfield, and from there to West Point, where he was transferred to Capt. Pray's Company, in Maj. Ternald's Regiment, Gen. Patterson's Brigade of the Continental Line. After remaining at West Point four and a half months from his enlistment, he served thte remaining half of his term by a Substitute, viz Peleg Landers, The Deponent's Brother, since dead. This Deponent, after his last discharge, resided at Lenox 15 or 16 years - at Shoreham, in the State of Vermont, 20 years & upwards - at Henrietta, in the State of New York, & [???? of ??????] and at Yates, in the said State, for thte last 11 years.
[National Archives - Pension record S 13,697 - declaration of Aquilla Landers dated 23 Jan 1833]
1270 iii. Lucy Landers was born on 20 Nov 1757 in Wareham, Plymouth, MA. ⁽⁵³⁸⁾
1271 iv. Ruth Landers was born on 25 Sep 1759 in Wareham, Plymouth, MA. ⁽⁵³⁹⁾
1272 v. Peleg Landers was born on 22 Sep 1761 in Wareham, Plymouth, MA. ⁽⁵⁴⁰⁾ Peleg5 Landers (Nathan4, Nathan3, Thomas2, Thomas1) was born 22 Sept. 1761; search in the vicinity of Shoreham, Vt. or New York State may uncover data as to his date of death.

We have found no record of a marriage for this man, but we know that he was only about sixteen years old when his parents moved from Wareham to Lenox, in western Massachusetts.

Peleg Landers of Lenox, served in the Revolution as a private in the company of Capt. Ezra Whittelsey, Col. John Brown’s regiment, where he enlisted 7 Sept., and was discharged 30 Sept. 1777. He is shown under the name Peleg Landress, residence given as of Lenox, in a muster dated at Great Barrington, 5 June 1778, to serve nine months with the Continental Army. [Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas1 Landers of Sandwich, Mass.," NEHGR 124:276]

+1273 vi. Hannah Landers.
1274 vii. Mary Landers was born on 11 Jun 1765 in Wareham, Plymouth, MA. ⁽⁵⁴¹⁾