Thomas Jordan Jr. (1634 - 1699)

Born 1634 in Chuckatuck Parish, Nansemond County, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Brasseur) Jordan — married about 23 Mar 1659 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 8 Dec 1699 at about age 65 in Chuckatuck, Nansemond County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Thomas Jordan, Jr. was the son of Thomas and Lucy (Corker) Jordan, and was born in 1634.^[1][2] He married Margaret Brashare (Brasseur) in 1660. She was the daughter of Robert Brashare and the sister of Mary Brashare who married Thomas Cocke, Cicely Reynolds Baley Jordan Farrar's grandson.

Margaret Brashare was one of the first known converts to Quakerism in the Virginia colony. She was born in 1642.^[3] She became a Quakeress when she was sixteen in the year 1658.^[4] Soon after her marriage in 1660, her husband, Thomas, also converted to the faith: "in ye yeare 1660 hee received ye truth and Abode faithful in it."^[1]

Hinshaw's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY notes, "Thomas Jordan was probably the most influential Quaker in lower Virginia being a man of position and substance."[Vol and page citation needed]

In 1661, he was held, as he writes, "in six weeks imprisonment for being taken at a meeting at my own house and released by the King's proclamation." The latter royal intervention speaks of the influence of the Jordan family in both Virginia and in England.^[5]

In the same year, Thomas Jordan also "suffered" the following abuses for his Quaker beliefs: ". . . for being taken at a meeting at Robert Lawrence's and bound over to the court of Nansemond for refusing to swear according to their wills and against the commands of Christ, was sent up to Jamestown a prisoner for upwards of ten months. Presently John Blake took away my three servants and left my wife in a distressed condition with a young child at her breast . . . which servant was kept nine weeks and released by order of the Governor. There was taken by John Blake, sheriff of Nansemond, two feather beds, two feather bolsters, and furniture which together with other goods amounted to 3,907 lbs. tobacco and also a serving man who had three years to serve. There was taken by Thomas Godwin, sheriff, ten head of cattle amounting to 5,507 lbs." This testimonial was signed, "Thomas Jordan, Chuckatuck, 1st month, 1661."^[5]

In 1666, Thomas Jordan [II] received a land grant of 550 acres in Nansemond County adjoining the land of Jeremiah Rutter and Hopken Howell.^[6] The Norfleet family owned land adjacent to them.

Thomas and Margaret Jordan had ten sons, as follows:

1. Thomas [III], born 1/6/1660 married Elizabeth Burgh.
2. John, born 6/17/1663 married Margaret Burgh.
3. James, born 11/23/1665 married Elizabeth Ratcliff.
4. Robert, born 7/11/1668 married Mary Belson.
5. Richard, born 6/6/1670 married Rebecca Ratcliff.
6. Joseph, born 7/8/1672 married Ann ___.
7. Benjamin, born 7/18/1674 married ?.
8. Matthew, born 11/1/1676 married Dorothy Bufkin (widow).
9. Samuel, born 2/15/1679 married Elizabeth Fleming.
10. Joshua, born 6/1681 married ?.

Thomas Jordan "departed this life the eighth day of the tenth month of the sixth day of the week about the second hour of the afternoon and was buried the 12th day of the said month on the third day of the week of the year 1699."^[1] As his memorial notes, in part, " . . . he stood in opposition against the wrong and deceitful spirits, having suffered the spoiling of his goods and the imprisonment of his body for the truth['s] sake and continued in the truth unto the end of his days..."^[7]

Marriage

Note: There is a conflict in the "International Marriage Records...." for Thomas Jordan and his wife Margaret Brasseur. His record gives marriage year as 1657 and hers 1658.[Note: This source contains much undocumented information and should not be considered a primary source.]

The marriage is given as 1659 by Harrison.^[5]

Date: 1657

Place: Virginia^[8]

Date: 23 MAR 1657

Place: Isle of Wight, Virginia^{[citation needed]}

Husband: Thomas Jordan

Wife: Margaret Brasseur

Research Notes

There are additional land grants to a Thomas Jordan in 1682[2] and 1684[3] for 500 acres in Surry County. It is not certain if this is this Thomas or perhaps his son.

He passed away in 1700.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Haverford College; Haverford, Pennsylvania; Minutes, 1673-1756; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: 1116/HW-43 (transcription)
2. ↑ Haverford College; Haverford, Pennsylvania; Minutes, 1684-1717; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: 1116/183 (original document)
3. ↑ Haverford College; Haverford, Pennsylvania; Minutes, 1684-1717; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: 1116/167
4. ↑ Haverford College; Haverford, Pennsylvania; Minutes, 1673-1756; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: 1116/182
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Harrison, Fairfax, The Harrisons of Skimino, 1910, pp24-32
6. ↑ Library of Virginia, Land Office Patents No. 6, 1666-1679 (pt.1 & 2 p.1-692), p. 39 (Reel 6). [1]
7. ↑ Memorial: "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
   Haverford College; Haverford, Pennsylvania
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2189 #1101754681 (accessed 11 July 2022)
   Benjamine Jordan born on 18 Sep 1674, child of Thomas Jordan & Margratt Jordan, in Suffolk City, Virginia.
8. ↑ Source: #S-2113920312 Source number: 14892.000; Submitter Code: JJ2. Birth: VA, 1634. Marriage: VA, 1657.

• "These Jordans Were Here" by Octavia Jordan Perry, 1969, pp35-42, 64-67.
• "Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5" by John Frederick Dorman, 4th Ed., Vol. II, 2005, pp365-366.
• "John Pankey of Manakin Town, Virginia, and his Descendants" by George Edward Pankey, Vol. I, 1969, p428.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98348055/thomas-jordan
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