The following information is from "These Jordans Were Here" by Octavia Jordan Perry Chapter IV "SONS OF SAMUEL JORDAN, ANCIENT PLANTERS" Samuel Jordan had three sons who emigrated to Virginia---Robert, Thomas and Samuel. Robert is the first one re- corded as living in Virginia, and the only record of hims is where he was killed by the Indians in the Indian massacre of March 22, 1622. At that time, Robert was living with his father and stepmother, Cecily at "BEGGAR'S BUSY, and had gone to "BERKLEY HUNDREDS" to warn the inhabitants there of the approaching Indian massacre and was killed. Samuel's next son found living in Virginia was Thomas Jordan. He was born in England in the year 1600 and emi- grated to Virginia on the "DIANA" IN 1623, perhaps before the death of his father. In the year 1624-25, he was listed as living in Pashebaighty (James Cittie) where his name headed the list of the governer's (Sir George Yardley) men. Thomas Jordan's name being in this list indicated that he was one of the governor's guards. In the year 1629, he was made a commissioner of Warresquioake (Isle of Wight County, Virginia. On July 2, 1632, Thomas Jordan applied for a land grant of 900 acres of land in Warresquioake County {Isle Of Wight County}, Virginia, and was granted this request because he had transferred, at his own expense, eighteen men as colonists to Virginia, The location of this land granted to Thomas Jordan was at the head of the Warresquioke River-- "beginning on the westerly side of an old Indian town, at an oak tree marked with three notches....running west-northwest into a mile or so down the river to Cross Creek where there was another oak marked with two notches--- adjacent to Thomas Butler's acreage." Just who the wife of this Thomas Jordan was is another genealogical enigma. He could have brought her over from England, or he could have married of the eligible girls living in Virginia at that time. While we do not have an answer to this question, we do know that he had one child, a son named Thomas. This Thomas was born in the year 1635 and later was spoken of as Thomas Jordan of Chuckatuck. Just when Thomas Jordan, the son of Samuel Jordan of James Towne, died is not known; for he left no will nor inventory of his estate. However, from records of land bought and sold by him, it was probably in the year 1644. On August 10, 1644, Thomas Davis patented 100 acres of land in Nansemond County, Virginia, on Beverely Creek-- branch of New Towne Haven patented bt Thomas Jordan (deceased) and Thomas Poole. The earliest information concerning Samuel Jordan, third son of Samuel Jordan of James Towne and perhaps the youngest one of them (Jack A. Jordan, lists the date of birth for Samuel as 1608 in England) was that he was living in Virginia before the year 1626. Sometime before 1626, Samuel Jordan returned to Virginia from an educational sojourn in England where he hadm at the age if 18 years, matriculated at All Souls College, Oxford, England, for the year 1623-24. Samuel Jordan of James Towne, the father Samuel, had died in the year 1623, so it could not possibly have been he who was the recipient of the following" "In the Corporation of Henrico County, Virginia, 1626, granted land on the north side of James River, from the falls down to the Henrico, containing about ten miles in length....part if ye public land of 10,000 acres which was early laid out and received for a universtiy, to Samuel Jordan," When a patent of land was granted to John Woodlife in Charles Cittie County, Virginia, in the territroy of Great Weyanoke, near the land known "BEGGER'S BUSH", it bordered west upon land formerly belonging ti William Parriott and east upon Samuel Jordan's land. This Samuel Jordan had no doubt inherited it from his father, Samuel Jordan. Little else is know about this Samuel It is believed that sometime after the land in Surry County, Virginia was granted Samuel Jordan, he moved his family in Lunenburg County, Virginia. He had children, but the records are not clear as to who they were, but it is believed that he had a grandson, Samuel Jordanm whose wife was Mary. This Samuel Jordan was a planter, and from the records in "THE VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES", he was a wealthy one who owned much land and many slaves....... From the book of Landon Bell, "CUMBERLAND PARISH VIRGINIA", we find that the earliest recorded birth if a Jordan in the Bristol Parish (Cumberland County Records, page 326) was that of Edward Jordan, son of Edward and grandson of Samuel and Milson Jordanm born February 22, 1742 (43). The father of the above mentioned Edward Jordan acquired a land grant in 1748---a grant of 654 acres of land on Couches Creek, in Lunenburg County, Virginia. If Eward Jordan, the son of Samuel and Milson Jordanm left a will, it has not been found; but Elizabeth, his wife, did leave one. It was dated October 4, 1794 and probated January 8, 1795, proving that her death was sometime after October, 1794. In this Will, she names the following children and grandchildren: Benjamine Jordan, Son; Samuel Jordan, son; William Jordan, son; Edward Jordan, grandson; Presley Hightower, grandson and Frances Hightower, granddaughter. William Jordan, third son of Edward and Elizabeth Jordan, married twice--first in 1795 to Mary Goodrich of Greenville, County, Virginia; the second time, he married Elizabeth Goodrich, of the same county, perhaps a sister to his first wife. William sold land in Lunenburg County, Virginia June 8, 1778 (Deed Book, Page 8) On November 11, 1788 he again sold land in the same county to John Pettus (Deed Book, Page 288.) Samuel, the second son of Edward and Elizabeth Jordan, sold land in Lunenburg County, Virginia at about the same time as his brother. The dates of Samuel's sales February, 1777 (Deed Book 13, Page 32-- and on October 3, 1780 and on January 9, 1784 (Deed Book 14 Page 72). In 1796, 1798, and 1805 he was still selling land in the county. With all the disposing of land in Lunenburg County that William and Samuel were doing, it was possible that they were taking up the land offered in Fincastle County, Virginia. (Now Kentucky) It is a known fact that William Jordan and his wife emigrated to Southern Kentucky before they went on to Indiana. Records support this fact, for William Jordan died in Tippercanoe County, Indiana, before 1810 and left a will in which he names his sons as: John, Miles, Levi, Jesse, James and William. Because this William Jordan gave his sons these names is almost positive proof that he was the son of Elizabeth and Edward Jordan, for many of the names of his children were the same names as the names of the children of Edward and Susannah Jordan. Submitted by Collene Mount, July 2, 2004