Hannah Harrington (Albany NY) and John Harrington (Ontario), Jabez Landers
His (John H. Landers' b. 1840, d. after 1892) father, the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a resident of the colony of New York when the Revolutionary war began. He enlisted in the Continental army and served seven years in that struggle. After the war he settled in Canada. John Landers was a resident of Canada when the war of 1812 broke out, and was drafted into the British army; but all his sympathies were on the side of the Americans, his father having fought for liberty in the war of the Revolution. He therefore deserted the British army, and served in the pioneer corps in the United States service, in which he received a severe gunshot wound. After the war he returned to Canada and was arrested as a deserter; but in consideration of his youth and the fact that the war was over, he was spared the extreme penalty of the law for desertion, and sentenced to seven years in the British service; but owing to an order for the decrease of the Canadian army, his regiment was disbanded at St. Johns, New Brunswick.
This biographical sketch of John H. Landers published in 1892.
This is a significant sketch, because John Landers (b. Aug 20 1794, d. Jul 15 1892) was still alive and in the area at the time the sketch was written. I can conclude several things from this excerpt.
1)Since John Landers' father served in the Revolution for the state of NY, he is almost certainly Jabez (Jabis) Landers (b. about 1746, d. about 1830), who served in the Albany regiment, and as far as I know, the only Landers in NY to serve
2) Jabez married Hannah Harrington in 1778 in Albany.
3) In 1790, Ebenezer Landers (b. abt. 1735) appears in the Albany census, and Ebenezer has been attributed to Content Dexter and Ebenezer Landers
4) John Landers was born in Ontario in 1794 and recruited to LDS in 1836 in Ontario, well-established facts.
5) In 1805, a Jabez Landers, a John Harrington, and an Ebenezer Landers paid taxes in Yonge township in Ontario, and they were living next to each other.
6) John Landers served time in the British army in NB, at a base directly across the bay from Yarmouth and Digby. This is significant for two reasons. First, he had close cousins living there--Landers who had moved to NS as loyalists before the war broke out. Second, Yarmouth is the town which his wife came from. I expect he met her when visiting his relatives there.
7) Mary Ann Griffin's parents were from NS, but after she died in 1823, took their grandchildren to Grand Manan island, in the bay between NS and NB. Later, her daughter Hannah Landers marries William Benjamin Small of Grand Manan, and ultimately relocates to Illinois to be with her father, who is of high prominence in the LDS church at that time.
What I still need is the following:
1. Some information on the relationship between John Harrington and Hannah Harrington
2. Some evidence that Jabez and Ebenezer Landers were brothers.
3. Evidence that Jabez Landers was the son of Ebenezer Landers and Content Dexter.
4. Any information on Hannah Harrington's parents.