Thomas Jordan Sr. (abt. 1600 - abt. 1688)

Born about 1600 in England

Husband of Jane (Browne) Jordan — married about 1679 in Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1688 at about age 88 in Chuckatuck, Nansemond County, Colony of Virginia

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Thomas Jordan Sr. resided in the Southern Colonies in North America before 1776. Join: US Southern Colonies Project Discuss: southern_colonies

Biography

Thomas Jordan Sr. was a Jamestown colonist.

Thomas Jordan Sr. is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society

Thomas Jordan I^[1]

Thomas Jordan (also recorded as Jorden) b. in England in say 1599, came to America in the ship "Diana" in 1623 at the age of 24 according to Hotten who lists him as an inhabitant of Virginia as of 16 Feb 1623 (the date of his listing).^[2][3] His possible father Samuel is believed to have sailed to the Americas in 1609 leaving Thomas and his siblings behind in England.^[4]

From the "Muster (census) of the Inhabitants of Pasbehays & the Maine taken the 30th of January 1624 belonging to the corporation of James Citty" he is listed under "Muster of the Governor's Men at Pasbehaighs...Thomas Jorden aged 24 came in the Diana."^[2] Governor's Men refers to Governor Yardley but whether or not he was a soldier is unknown.

He was a member of the council or House of Burgesses from Isle of Wight County in 1629 and 1632.^[3][5][6] On 2 Jul 1635 he was granted 900 acres known as the "Great Indian Field Neck" near the head of Warrasquioacke River, beginning at the western side of an old Indian town.^[3] This was near the head of Pagan River. He was granted this land by Sir John Harvey, Knight, for transporting 18 persons. One branch of the Jordan family still possessed this grant until 1840. ^[7][8][6]

He followed the Puritan trek to Nansemond as he patented land there soon after receiving his Isle of Wight grant.^[6]

He married Lucy Corker (daughter of Capt William Corker of Surry County, Virginia and his wife Lucy White Corker).^[4]

Children

Boddie in his Southside Virginia Families^[9] gives two children by first wife Jane (Browne) Spencer with a marriage date of "about 1679":

• Jane
• Mary (m Francis Sowerby)

There is disagreement among well-respected researchers on the children of Thomas and Lucy:

• Thomas b 1634 Isle of Wight^[4]
• Richard
• Phillis (Boddie in Southside Virginia Families gives Phillis as the only child by second wife Lucy Corker.)^[9]

Death

Thomas' date of death is unknown but estimated to be about 1688, however, some researchers place his death as early as 1644.

Research Notes

There are obvious date issues with the upstream profile dates both in the Jordan and Corker families even though the documentation on the families taken separately appears to be approximately correct. These are being researched as of Feb 2020. - T Stanton

Contrary information on maiden name for marriage to Corker:

• The Virginia magazine of history and biography. ... v.31 (1923) page 359. Quote: Carter—Lucy, who married Thomas Jordan (1600–1685). She was living in 1688.

Unverified/Unsourced Information

His land grant of 1624 was for land that the Virginia Company had given his father, Samuel, but the father had never taken out the patent on the tract.

Is the above unsourced comment in reference to the following? Patent Books Land Patent 1620 "Samuel Jordan ... see Land Book VIII, p 125; referred to in JCGC, Sept 12, 1625, p 76" "Journal of the Council and General Court". Jordan grant (listed as a footnote in v 1) listed again in v 2, from Patent Book 8 (dated 1690). This seems to be copied from some earlier record, since the land transaction took place in 1620. Cited in Nugent, Nell Marion. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, Volume One: 1623-1666, Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1992. • Patent Books 1-5.

Additional information can be found from this link: https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/jordan/10727/ Some links from this no longer valid, most to original early records remain intact.

His Father Samuel Jordan and his mother Frances Baker had the following children in England Note: there is no documentation of Samuel Jordan ever marrying someone named Frances Baker. Frances Baker is fictional.):

1. Anne Maria Jordan 1596–1630
2. Robert Jordan 1598–1622
3. Thomas Jordan Sr. 1600–1684
4. Samuel Jordan 1608–164?

Sources

1. ↑ Jamestowne Society: Jordan, Thomas I - A4407; born ca. 1601, died by 1644 (Muster of 1624/5); Warrascoyack: 1628, 1629, 1632 (Burgess). accessed 7 January 2021.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Hotten, John Camden, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, Etc., London, 1874, pp 189[1] and 219[2]
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Winslow, Ellen Goode, History of Perquimans, Broughton & Edwards, Raleigh, 1931, pp 366-67
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Boddie, John Bennett, Historical Southern Families, Vol XI:264-265, Clearfield, 1967
5. ↑ Isle of Wight County Records, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol 7, 1899, pp 208 & 313
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Boddie, John Bennett,. Seventeenth century Isle of Wight County, Virginia : a history of the county of Isle of Wight, Virginia, during the seventeenth century, including abstracts of the county records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938.
7. ↑ Cavaliers and pioneers; abstracts of Virginia land patents and grants, 1623-1800, p. 27
8. ↑ Library of Virginia, Land Office Patents No. 1, 1623-1643 (v.1 & 2), p. 233 (Reel 1). Patent
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Boddie, John Bennett, Southside Virginia Families, Gen Pub Co, Baltimore, reprint, 1955, p 170

See also - for more information:

• Wikipedia: Samuel Jordan. [some citations in this Wikipedia entry are incorrect and there are multiple dead links]
• Wikipedia: Ancient planter.
• Wikipedia: Jordan Point, Virginia.
• Wikipedia: Indian massacre of 1622.

See also:

• History of the Jordan Family of Surry County, Virginia -- Part 1 (restored 12 Jul 2021)
• Wulfeck, Dorothy Ford, Marriages of Some Virginia Residents 1607–1800 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1986) Page: 69; Quote: Jordan, Thomas, b. 1600, England, son of Samuel, who came to Va., in 1609, m. Lucy Corker, dau. of Capt. William Corker of Surry Co., sis. of Susanna. They res. in Isle of Wight Co. Proven by will of William Corker, dated 1677, Surry Co.
  • The William and Mary Quarterly, v. 7, no. 1, p. 232; Quote: Footnote 5 continued from previous page: ... In the Surry records there is a deed (year 1688) of Lucy Jordan, wife of Mr. Thomas Jordan (the Isle of Wight man), conveying to Phillis Jordan that portion of land "which I hold in partnership with sister Susannah Branch and niece Eliz. Parsons, dau. and sole heir of sister Judith Clay, dece'd, which land descended unto said Susanna, Judith, and Lucy, as daus. and coheirs of Capt. William Corker, dece'd" (son of John Corker). Witness, James Jordan, Richard Washington. In 1685 Lt. Coll. Wm. Browne and Mr. James Jordan presented in Surry an inventory of goods of Mr. Thomas Jordan, dece'd. There is in Surry the nuncupative will of Capt. William Corker "made at the house of his dau. Judith Clay in y^e Isle of Wight Co." Feb. 26, 1675-6. Divides his estate between his wife and his three daus: Susanna (who m. George Branch, jr.), Judith Clay and Lucy Jordan; he confirms a gift to Elizabeth md. Capt. Robert Spencer, of Surry. ... The Jordans of Isle of Wight were leading Quakers.
  • A History of Halifax County Virginia, by Wirt Johnson Carrington, 1924, p. 215. Image Quote: Jordan (2) Thomas Jordan (son of Samuel), born 1600 in England, married Lucy Corker, daughter of Captain Corker of Surry County, Va. (He was burgess in 1629–1632, was a soldier with Yardley.)

See also - other family trees:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #7128227 for Thomas Jordan Sr. (1600–1644) (memorial only, no gravestone photo).