Abel WOOD
Also have birth as 1706 of Middleboro, Plymouth, MA. [Descendants of William Kirby http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/r/a/Steven-G-Gray/index.html]
Thankful4, b. 21 July 1713; mar. 25 March 1736 Abel Wood (int. he late of Plymouth, Vital Records of Rochester, vol. 1, p. 198).* They removed with her parents to Sharon, Conn., in 1748. * This is one of the many instances where a misreading of the name Sanders for Landers has led researchers astray. A copy of the Wareham Church records shows that Thankful Landers now Lothrop was dismissed to the East Parish Church in Barnstable, 29 Sept. 1745. She was really Thankful Saunders, fourth of the seven children of Henry3 & Ann (Bates) Saunders [Sanders] of Sandwich and Wareham, b. ca. 1706, bapt. 20 June 1708 in the First Church of Sandwich, whose intentions to marry John Lothrop were published 15 Sept. 1744 (Vital Records of Barnstable - May. Des., 33:166); she was the second wife of John Lothrop - see E. B. Huntington, A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family (1884), p. 67. [Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, Thomas1 Landers of Sandwich, Mass., NEHGR 124:60]
He married Thankful Landers 25 Mar 1736 at Rochester, Plymouth, Ma . Thankful Landers was born at Rochester, Plymouth, Ma 21 Jul 1713 daughter of Joseph Landers and Deborah Doty .
They were the parents of 8
children:
Elijah Wood
born 23 Dec 1736.
Ephraim Wood
born 6 Jul 1740.
Barnabas Wood
born 20 Feb 1742/43.
Deborah Wood
born 1 Mar 1744/45.
Thankful Wood
born 10 Sep 1748.
Mary Wood
born 10 Sep 1753.
Lydia Wood
born 9 Apr 1756.
Phoebe Wood
born 11 Apr 1759.
Abel Wood died 20 Jan 1793 at Sharon, Litchfield, Ct .
Thankful Landers died 16 Dec 1760 at Sharon, Litchfield, Ct .