YOU MIGHT TRY LOOKING BACKWARDS IN HENRICO COUNTY RECORDS. I KNOW THAT THERE WERE JORDANS THERE IN THE 1600's BECAUSE ONE OF THEM, CECILLY REYNOLDS JORDAN (WHO WAS A WIDOW) MARRIED MY ANCESTOR, WILLIAM FARRAR OF FARRAR'S ISLAND, HENRICO COUNTY. I AM GOING TO QUOTE FROM A BOOK WRITTEN BY EMMIE FERGUSON FARRAR IN 1957 CALLED "OLD VIRGINIA HOUSES ALONG THE JAMES". IN HER SECTION ON A PLACE IN CHARLES CITY COUNTY CALLED JORDAN'S JORNEY SHE WRITES: CAPTAIN SAMUEL JORDAN CAME TO VIRGINIA IN 1609, WHICH WAS JUST BEFORE THE 'STARVING TIME'. HE PATENTED 450 ACRES OF LAND JUST BELOW THE CONFLUENCE OF THE APPOMATTOX AND THE JAMES, AND CALLED HIS PLANTATION JORDAN'S JORNEY, OR BEGGAR'S BUSH. IN THE YEAR (1619), HE REPRESENTED HIS OWN AND NEIGHBORING PLANTATIONS IN THE FIRST HOUSE OF BURGESSES. WHEN THE INDIAN MASSACRE OCCURRED IN 1622 (24?), JORDAN'S JORNEY AND ALL ITS INHABITANTS WERE SAVED. HE GATHERED HIS NEIGHBORS INTO HIS HOME "WHERE HE FORTIFIED AND LIVED IN DESPITE OF THE ENEMY." BURGESS JORDAN DIED THE NEXT YEAR. ON THE DAY OF HIS BURIAL, REV. GREVILLE POOLEY, WHO HAD CONDUCTED THE FUNERAL SERVICES, PROPOSED TO THE WIDOW, WHO HAD BEEN LEFT ALONE TO FACE THE PERILS OF THE FRONTIER WITH HER CHILDREN. SHE TOLD HIM NOT TO CAUSE A LOCAL SCANDAL BY TALKING ABOUT HIS RATHER PREMATURE PROPOSAL. BUT THE OVERJOYED MINISTER STOPPED TO DRINK TOASTS ON HIS WAY HOME AND APPARENTLY 'BLABBED". THIS INCENSED THE YOUNG WIDOW, AND WHEN POOLEY LATER REPEATED HIS PROPOSAL, SHE REMAINED SILENT. SOON AFTER THIS, WIDOW CECILLY JORDAN BECAME ENGAGED TO COL.WILLIAM FARRAR, "AN HONORABLE MEMBER OF HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL", AND PROPRIETOR OF NEARBY FARRAR'S ISLAND IN HENRICO COUNTY. REV. POOLEY THEREUPON FLABBERGASTED THE LOCAL COURTS BY INSTITUTING THE FIRST AMERICAN BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT! FINALLY CECILLY WON OUT. THE MINISTER WAS REQUIRED TO PLEDGE 500 POUNDS STERLING "NEVER TO HAVE ANY CLAIM, RIGHT OR TITLE TO HER." HOWEVER, THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL THEREUPON ENACTED A LAW WHICH PROHIBITED WOMEN FROM ENGAGING THEMSELVES "TO TWO SEVERAL MEN AT THE SAME TIME." SOON AFTER THIS CECILLY REYNOLDS JORDAN MARRIED COL. FARRAR AND MOVED TO HIS HOME IN HENRICO COUNTY. AT JORDAN'S JORNEY, IN 1676, THE VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLES CITY COUNTY SOUTH OF THE JAMES ASSEMBLED TO JOIN IN BACON'S REBELLION. FOR A HUNDRED YEARS JORDAN'S JORNEY WAS THE HOME OF MEMBERS OF THE BLAND FAMILY. RICHARD BLAND, AN ARDENT PATRIOT IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE BRITISH, OWNED IT AT THE TIME OF THE REVOLUTION. THE OLD PLANTATION HOUSE HE WOULD HAVE OCCUPIED HAS LONG SINCE VANISHED. DEANE FERGUSON MILLS YORK COUNTY, VA > Anyone out there researching the Jordan's of Brunswick Co., Va.? > > I am interested in an Edward Jordan who d. ca 1837. Does anyone know who he is, parents, wife, where he came from? > > I have some information on other Jordan's of Brunswick if anyone is interested. Any help or comments appreciated. > > Lorri > > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >