ichard³, b. 6 March 1688/9; no death record found, but he evidently died intestate (and unmarried?).¹ 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.

1. 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 (John^2-1), 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]

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