I recently became interested in my Jordan line. This line starts with my second great grandmother, Louisa Ellen Jordan (1827-1876), who married Joseph David Hurt (1822-1864) of Tennessee. Ellen’s parents were William Jordan (1792-1863) and Medy Boyd (1795-bef.1833). William’s parents were William Jordan (1748-1822) and Sarah “Sallie” Wood (1753-1843). This William was born in Virginia and served as a corporal in the Revolutionary War. After the war, he moved to Tennessee. William’s parents were Edward Jordan (1720-1791) and Elizabeth Washington (1720-1794) of Halifax and Lunenburg Counties, Virginia. Edward’s parents were William Jordan (?-1779) and Mary Stokes (1678-1789). William’s parents were Colonel Samuel Jordan (1679-1718) and Elizabeth Fleming (1687-1763). (This Fleming line supposedly goes back to the Kings of Scotland and on to Charlemagne. I have followed it back but don’t have much documentation for it.) Samuel’s parents were Thomas Jordan (1634-1699) and Margaret Brassieur (1642-1708). Thomas is the son of Major Thomas Jordan (1600-1685) and Lucy Corker (1604-1700). Thomas is supposed by many to be the son of Samuel Jordan (1578-1632), an early Jamestown settler.
The information here was given to me by a distant cousin and I don’t have any sources for anything beyond William Jordan and Medy Boyd. Because the idea that I had an ancestor at Jamestown intrigued me, I decided to ignore all the rules of genealogy (i.e., start with the known and work back) and jump straight in to some research on Samuel Jordan. I discovered that he has an exciting story. He sailed from England in 1609 on the Sea Venture but was shipwrecked on Bermuda. The survivors remained on the island through the winter, building two smaller ships and then sailing to Jamestown in spring of 1610. Samuel survived the disease and Indian attacks prevalent in the new colony and established a plantation along the James River called “Jordan’s Journey.” He died before 1623. Much more biographical information about him can be found on the web – just search for his name and pages and bios will come up. Unfortunately, they seem to repeat the same facts without providing much in the way of source material.
One of the most important questions to genealogists is how many children did Samuel have. Any number of children have been attributed to him, including my Thomas, above. However, there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of any children other than those by his second wife, Cicely. Samuel was married in England to a first wife whose name is unknown. She evidently died around 1609, just before he sailed. No children have been found from this marriage. Samuel married Cicely in 1620 and they had two daughters: Mary and Margery.
I hope to do some more work on this line and would like to start gathering primary source documents so I can make my own determination about the parentage of Thomas.
Update, 2018
I’ve come to understand that the line I’ve listed above is incorrect, and that my line of Jordans does NOT lead back to the “Ancient Planter,” Samuel Jordan (1578-1623), who came to Charles City, Virginia, in 1610, married Cicely, and established a plantation known as “Jordan’s Journey.” See Wikipedia for details.
See my Jordan pages for an updated lineage. My line of Jordans is composed of the Triune Jordans of Tennessee, including William Jordan, Sr., and Jr., along with Edward Jordan of Lunenburg County, Virginia, and Samuel Jordan (d. 1761) of Amelia County, Virginia. This line DIFFERS from the Samuel Jordan (1679-1718) of New Kent County who married Elizabeth Fleming. Those multitudes of you on Ancestry.com who have these ancestors in your trees must now update your info.
I am William Scott Jordan and my father William Garner Jordan and my grandfather William Jordan. According to my father, he had relatives on his father’s side of some sort in Tennessee that would come to visit. I would be interested to know about William Jordan’s (1792-1863) other children. My father and grandfather have passed away and I have very little information.
I live in William Jordan and Medy Boyd’s house. It’s just outside of Triune, TN. One of their sons, Thomas Jordan operated a big tobacco operation in Eagleville for a few years in the late 1800s and had stock in several other businesses in the area.
Hello William,
I come from the side of Archer Lee Jordon, William’s brother. Archer son Thomas Lee Jordan was my great grandfather, Thomas Lee, Jr. is my grandfather.
Marilyn Fox
May I suggest using Family Tree Maker World Family Tree for Jordan, I have two volumes, 3 and 23, unfortunately my computer broke down and in changing computers, I didn’t re install the Family Tree Maker so I can’t look it up for you. We branch off from William Jordan and Sarah Woods to three Benjamin Jordans, Benjamin Franklin Jordan I and B. F. Jordan II and III…II and III being in Camden Arkansas. My grandmother was a Lillian Elvira Jordan daughter of B. F. Jordan III. I have been looking for more info. on the Seaventure, Jamestown.
I am Nancy Brown and my Grandmother was Mildred Alice Jordan Field. born 1895 Camden, Arkansas, her father was James G Jordan born 1862 Camden Arkansas, William Harrison Jordan 1840 TN., Benjamin F. Jordan 1807 married Elvira Byler. I’ve just started looking at my Jordan lines. Wish me luck..
In looking at this genealogy I have the same problems with dates that I have in my own file. The William Jordan/Mary Stokes (1678-1789 – makes her over 111 years old). I have DAR lineage proven to William Jordan/Sallie Wood and to Sallie’s father, Stephen Wood. I would like, also, to join the Jamestowne Society but find that the dates are really screwy — If anyone can help, I would appreciate it. I descend from William/Sallie’s son, Benjamin Jordan and wife, Elizabeth Johnston.
Jill, I would love to see your DAR info proven to William Jordan, I hope you are willing to share that. I’m a DAR member in Memphis TN
Marthajmoore@att.net. Thanks so much!!!
my father in law antoine jordan wrote a family genealogy that goes back to the crusades and the river jordan, i personally know a lot about the Parisians huguenots and the jordans,madame de maintenon married louis 14th.the king of france. she was a merle d’aubigne a huguenot and my children’s great great greatgrandmother.org maybe aunt. charles jordan a famous mathematician is listed in the french dictionary.
josette
I have a Jordan line…just one member so far, born 1812 VA. I have another line of Dabney [French spelling is different] who married Susanna who was a Pamonkey…probably related? My ancestor Dabney was a Heugnaunt who left France for England, then came to the colonies. I have a kit number for GEDmatch and I have a tree on Ancestry.
I have my Jordan line back to a Joshua Jordan, born 1755 in ? – died 1830 in Brown Co. Ohio. He had a son, Joshua born in Washington? Pa in 1790 and died in Jennings Co. Indiana. I am trying to link this line to Samuel Jordan in Jamestown, Va. I have been told by Jordans in the same line after Joshua 2 that there is a link, but have not been able to confirm this, But have been told that our Jordans came to Virginia (Jamestown) from England in the very early 1600’s.
William Jordan and Sarah (Sallie) Wood lived in Williamson County, TN. There is great documentation about their family at the Williamson County Archives. His land is still owned by his descendants. You can find deeds, court records,and marriage certificates there about William Jordan and his sons. Also, there is a fabulous family history by Barry Lamb. I found it at the library in Murfreesboro TN. There are lots of old pictures also. William Jordan’s son Benjamin is my line.
I’m still trying to figure out if Samuel Jordan had a daughter named Joane Jordan. She was born in 1597 and came to Virginia in 1621 with 3 children and was married to Thomas Palmer (my lineage). Funny thing is they came to Charles Cittie and Cittie Pointe and Jordan’s Journey in 1621. Too many coincidences. And some geneology sites say she is a daughter. Others do not list her at all.
Hello,here it is 2022 & I am just reading your post of the Palmer-Jordans.My 2nd great grandfather was the son of Mary Palmer & William Wray. Please send a hello.
I am a descendant of your Jordan family through Margaret Jordan who married John Pleasants, 5th.
I recently did genome testing at 23andMe and found that I share a significant segment of Chromosome 15 with a fellow named Simmon, who descends from Edward Eason, who was on the Sea Venture of the Third Supply to Jamestown, shipwrecked in Bermuda. 23andMe predicts we are 3rd to 6th cousins and I’m trying to figure out the relationship. The Easons left Virginia for NC and the west in about 1700 so I figure the connection must be before 1700.
Got any Easons in your Jordan genealogy?
Joe Fox, Lafayette, CA
I don’t have any Easons. But I’ll keep an eye out for that name and post back here if I find anything.
I’m having problems with my Jordan line also. I have a g-g-grandfather, Samuel Jordan, of Brown County, Ohio. Born in 1828 in Brown Co, died at the Battle of Fisher’s Hill, VA in 1864 (First Sgt of Co. B, 34th Ohio Volunteer Infantry at the time, killed in action). He was well-documented in his adult years. He was first married to a Frances Devers and had several children with her, and then in the early 1860’s, married a woman named Mary, and had 2 children with her: Samuel, and Maggie B (my g-grandmother, born 1864 or 65, a few months after he went back to war). I cannot find anything to indicate who his parents were, so my Jordan line ends at him so far. One genealogy poster has his a Samuel as his father, but that Samuel died 10 years before he was born. He HAS to be born of one of the Brown/Clermont County Jordans, right?
I am a decendant of Samuel Jordan that landed in Surry Virginia in the 1600’s i have a lot of research done my tree is listed on ancestry.com under Jordan family tree u are welcome to contact me by email or either fill free to look at the ancestry site for any help.
Hi, I am trying to solve a mystery re: my 3rd grandmother. Her name was Mary Caroline Jordan, born 1812, VA. She was in Colluden CO, GA and married George Logan Douglas [originally from the Carolinas…Mecklenburg]. Many list her parents as James Henry Hancock jr and Jestern Elizabeth Joyce. They were from N Carolina [Craven]. I just don’t see how she would have Jordan as a third name and be a Hancock. I’m getting a book, hopefully tomorrow with 5 gen. of forefathers and descendants of James and Jestern. There were 137 men with the surname Jordan living in VA near the year of her birth. I have a GEDmatch kit number if that helps? I also have a tree on Ancestry and have taken the Ancestry DNA test.
My Mother is a Jordan. Her Great Grandfather was Samuel Jordan b. 1813 d.?
He married Lucy Ann (Smith) Jordan b. 1826 d. 1892. I do not know when they married or when Samuel died, but am working on this information. My Mother has been visiting San Augustine and Nacogdoches Counties in TX as well as the Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches TX archives. There are several papers in their archives that were saved by a 16 yr. old boy (somewhere around 1935) when the old courthouse was being torn down. The records had been thrown around town in ditches and abandoned buildings. Luckily he found them! He became a professor of History (what else?) and donated the papers to the State Archives..some are in Austin, some are Stephen F. Austin Univ. The 16 yr. old boy, became a professor at Abilene Christian College. His name is either Peter or Thomas Smith. Thank God he gave them over. We would know nothing about my Great Great Grandfather if it had not been for his determination to gather up all the papers he found lying in the ditch that day!
I am looking for information going further back than my Samuel Jordan, but have some of the same information you all have posted–going back to Jamestown, etc.. At any rate. If any of you have any information regarding my Samuel Jordan, I’d be thrilled and very appreciative!
Thanks!
Jennifer Bell
jenbelltx@yahoo.com
Edward Jordan is my ancestor. I descend from his daughter Ann Eliza who married John Coleman Green in 1826 in Lunnenburg Va. M.E.
I am looking for information on Burton Jordan, son of William and brother of Benjamin. He married Ellen Dean and their daughter Elizabeth married William C. Love. I have information about the Loves and their daughter, but cannot make the connection between Burton and his daughter Elizabeth. I would like references to birth certificates, wills, baptisms or church records. I am going to check Williamson Co. I know Benjamin was married to an Elizabeth, this would be his neice.
Thanks,
Bonnie
I don’t know about the Jordans but I just wanted to say that my American ancestry also started with a crew member on the Sea Venture, the ship that was wrecked in Burmuda in 1609 during a hurricane. He also survived the hardships of Jamestown with John Rolfe. His name was Edward Eason. He and his wife were on the ship and even delivered a son during that time whom they named Burmudas. I find this history fascinating and wish you all the luck with your searches. I wouldn’t know anything about any of this if it weren’t for my cousin and all his hard work and I just happened upon this site when researching the name Eason.
Thanks,
Cheryl
The Chancery court records for Amelia Co. VA are available online. There is a case instituted by the executors of Samuel Jordan, deceased in 1761, against his son William Jordan, who died around 1781 in Amelia Co VA. William was married first to an Elizabeth Stokes, daughter of Henry Stokes of Henrico Co. Henry Stokes was born around 1700 and died around 1766 so his daughter probably was not born before around 1718 at the earliest. William was married in second in 1747 to Mary Ellis, daughter of John and Elizabeth Ellis. The only child of William and Elizabeth Stokes Jordan was Elizabeth Ann, who went to live with her grandfather in Henrico Co when her father remarried to Mary Ellis. There are deed records in Henrico to support this, and she is mentioned in her grandfather’s will. Her grandmother Ann Stokes became her guardian when her grandfather died with her father’s permission. She was under 15 years of age in 1762, so probably was a baby when her father remarried.
I am a descendant of Samuel Jordan of Jamestown. My father James D. Jordan was a member of the James Town Society and we have a lot of the documents to support this as he needed to do so to become a member. Let me know if there is anything you need and I will see what I have. My father and I worked on a lot of this together so when he passed away I was left with all our research.
Martha
My ancestor is also Samuel JORDAN who was wrecked off coast of Bermuda and came ashore with John Rolfe and others. I am interested in any info (especially documentation) that would allow me to join the Jamestown society or the DAR. I am working on both ancestry.com and familysearch.org (the Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints geneology site).
Jill, I would love to see your DAR info proven to William Jordan, I hope you are willing to share that. I’m a DAR member in Memphis TN
Marthajmoore@att/dotnet Thanks so much!!!
I would love to see your DAR line to Samuel Jordan. I am DAR member in Memphis. Thanks!! 901.605.8244
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To Martha Jordan Burcham,
At the time of the Indian Massacre in March of 1622, Thomas Palmer and his wife Joane (maiden name was Jordan) were living there near Cittie Pointe near Samuel Jordan and his family. Do you know if Joane Jordan Palmer was any relation to Samuel Jordan? Some sites link them as father-daughter. Others do not. A good geneologist once told me there was no connection that could be found but did not discard the possibility anyway.
From what I remember during my geneologie study is that after the Viriginia Company was dissoved in 1624 or 1625, I don’t see any musters (census) that were done for many years. Looked like the geneology tracking gets real tough for a number of years. Could it be that people came or were born in the New World after 1625up until many years later are difficult to track? It appears so to me. Also, I’ve heard that many courhouses were burned down during the Civil War and census records lost.
I am a descendant of Rev. War patriot, William Jordan who moved to Williamson County, TN I need to know the name of his father and grandfather and THE PROOFS that go with them. I’ve seen the name of Edward Jordan listed as his father, and his grandfather is stated to be William Jordan. There is 4 years difference in their birth years and Mary Stoked lives to be over 100 years!! I strongly doubt this is correct.
Help out there!!! Please.
I would like to join the Jamestowne Society and also the Magna Charta if I can get this cleared up to prove the correct lineage. Thanks.
Please look at my updated Jordan pages for documentary evidence of these Jordans: http://www.karenfurst.com/blog/genealogy/surnames/jordan/
There were 2 distinct sets of Jordans in Williamson Co., TN, in the early 1800’s: the Triune Jordan’s and the other set. My Jordan family traces back to the”other” set, whose ancestors came from William & Mary County, VA.
Seeking information on lineage to Edward Eason, who was on the Sea Venture, shipwrecked on Bermuda in 1609.
My Great-Grandfather 5 generations back is Richard Eason b. 1723. Apparently town records were burned in Taunton, Mass. where he lived.
Richard Eason I (1723-1796) + Mary (Molly) Pershoe/Pashow (b. 1723 Norton- d. 12/26/1807 Leyden) m: @ 1745 MA Richard aged 27 at American Rev. He died age 73 yrs. She died age 84.
Anybody able to link Richard Eason back to Edward Eason? Or, Molly’s ancestors?
Thanks.
My ggg grandmother was Elizabeth Jordan (1807 – 1908). Her father was Sir Robert Harrison Jordan, Sr., son of Thomas Jordan &Susannah Ellyson, Thomas was the son of Benjamin Harrison Jordan, Jr. & Lydia Pleasants, Benjamin was the son of Benjamin Jordan & Sara Robinson, Benjamin was the son of Thomas Jordan & Margaret Brasseur, Thomas was the son of Thomas Jordan, Sr. & Lucy Corker, Thomas was supposedly the son of Samuel Silas Jordan who left England in 1608 on the Sea Adventure and arrived in Jamestown in 1610. I saw somewhere that Samuel Silas Jordan was married first to a Frances Fleming in England and fathered Anne Marie, Thomas, Robert, and Samuel. It seems Samuel left England shortly after Frances died; as the children grew older, they followed him to Virginia. Cecily was supposedly sent to England while still a child, but being a beautiful girl had no trouble finding husbands. She married and was the mother of Temperance Baley when Samuel married her.
Sounds like a good story, but i have not been able to locate documentation on how true this story is. If anyone can supply that documentation, I would be greatful.
I am in the DAR and would like to add Jamestown.
Hi,
We are related through Ellwood Scott Harrar, my great, grandfather. Eleanor Harrar Stulb was my grandmother.
Hi! I am looking to trace Samuel Jordan’s (b. 1578)line back to England and beyond. Where did he come from before he went to England? Is his family Jewish?
We just found out that is who we are related to.
Any information would be helpful.
See Geni…start with Samuel Jordan and backtrack.Great info…Samuel is a great+ grandfather of mine.
Samuel Jordan (b. 1578) was most likely an Englishman from either Dorset or Wiltshire. His antecedents remain unknown; it’s generally thought the patrilinear line leads to Scandinavian/ Norman invaders, who settled under William the Conqueror.
Certain sources claim Jordans were originally French Huguenots (Jourdain), but the evidence is shaky at best. I choose to stick with the “English” version. Whatever they used to be, Samuel Jordan was a naturalized Protestant Englishman anyway.
I posted information above which needs corrections.
Thomas Jordan I was married to unknown. There is documented proof that ThomasJordan II is his son. Thomas Jordan II married Margaret Brasseur. They became Quakers. Of their ten sons, Benjamin I married Sara Robinson. Benjamin II married Lydia Pleasants. Their son was Thomas Pleasants Jordan, 1749-1809. He married Susanna Ellyson. Their son, Robert H. Jordan married Susannah Thomas in 1806 in Patrick County, VA. Their daughter, Elizabeth, 1807-1908, married Hugh Allen in North Carolina where Her grandfather Thomas P and family moved about 1790.
In 1848, the Robert Jordan and Hugh Allen families moved to what is now Pickens County, Georgia.
Karen,
Your ancestor, Samuel Jordan, is a brother of Benjamin Jordan 1, son of Margaret Brasseur and Thomas Jordan 2. My line is through Benhamin.
I have documented references to Thomas Jordan 1. However, our Thomas’s wife is unknown.
Lucy Corker married the Thomas Jordan who lived in Surry County and was descended from Arthur Jordan, a different line of Jordans.
If you could document your lineage to Samuel Jordan, I could provide references document Thomas and Margaret, andvThomas 1.
We have been able to prove that Samuel Jordan, 1578-1623, is his father. In all probability, he is.
Shirley Rogers
Sat3.rogers@gmail.com
I think we are from different lines. See my updated Jordan pages for details.
Hi All. I recently had my DNA tested via ancestry.com and found that I have a few dozen distant cousins in Virginia so it seems that the Philadelphia based Jordan line is somehow related to the Samuel Jordan line but not sure how. My gggg William Jordan b. 1792 (wife Elizabeth or Hannah) migrated from Leicester England in around 1869. Does anyone have info on how the 2 lines could be connected? Thanks for any help.
I come from the Jordan line. According to my family tree, Samuel and his first wife, Frances (who died in England) did have a son, Thomas. He came to America when he was 18 years old on a ship called the Diana. That is the branch that I come from.
I have found my line to Samuel Jordan 1575-1632. My ancestry DNA kit is 780759 and see a david Jordan shares some of my numbers.
My great great grandmother was Mary Jordan who married John Christopher Robinson in Marshall county, AL, my home. Her father was William Tadford Jordan of Carroll County, GA where they have the Jordan Cemetery. I have traced my family using Family Search back to Samuel Silas Jordan. I would appreciate any help that anyone has and am willing to share what I have found. Van Malone
According to ancestry.commy heritage goes as follows:
My Mother was Isabel Jordan. Her father was Coma Jordan. His father was John Wilson Jordan. His father was Charles L Jordan. His father was Woodson Jordan. His father was Capt W H Jordan. His father was Charles Jordan Sr. His father was Col MajorSamuel Jordan, His father was Thomas Jordan Jr, His father was Thomas Fleming Jordan Sr. his father was Samuel Silas Jordan of Jamestown. Samuels father was Robert Jordan Sr married to Sarah Winter. I think I have this correct if ancestry has is correct.
I have a Jordan line…just one member so far, born 1812 VA. I have another line of Dabney [French spelling is different] who married Susanna who was a Pamonkey…probably related? My ancestor Dabney was a Heugnaunt who left France for England, then came to the colonies. I have a kit number for GEDmatch and I have a tree on Ancestry.
My grandmother was a Jordan from Lauderdale county, TN…she descends from the Triune Jordan family.
Hello, it’s 2024 now so I hope you see this. I live in the house your second great grandmother’s father built. Louisa Ellen Jordan’s father William, the one married to Medy Boyd. It’s a plantation mansion in Eagleville, TN that was started in the 1840’s and construction was complete by 1850. It was built by slaves they owned. There are still a few slaves quarters on the property. My family bought it in 2000, along with much of the original plantation, and I’ve been desperately searching trying to find information on the Jordan family that built it. So thank you for doing this research! it’s awesome you’ve been able to trace it back so far and I’m glad I stumbled upon it.
– Locke Davis
I live in William Jordan and Medy Boyd’s house. It was started in the 1840’s and construction was complete in 1850. It’s a plantation house that was built by slaves they owned. There are still a few slaves quarters on the property. My family bought the property in 2000 and it sits just outside Triune, TN. I’ve been looking for information on the family that built it so thanks for doing this research!
Karen are you the gal that wrote the book about Chadds Ford?
Janice Friel
Yes, that’s me!