General Notes

Source:  Rosalyn Sumner,  "Daniels/Stuart/Marshall/Morgan/Jordan/Murray", 2003

Samuel Jordan was born in England and came to America on the "Sea Venture" in 1609, being wrecked on an island in the Bermudas. Also in the same ship were John Rolfe and other adventures, including many wealthy noblemen and London merchants. Samuel spent a year on the island where it was wrecked, and the group built three ships out of remains of the Sea Venture and cypress trees found on the island and went to Jamestown. He was granted 450
acres of land in his own right by the Governor and Captain General of VA, and 250 more for transporting his five servants (John Davis, Thomas Matterly, Alice Wade, Robert Marshall and Thomas Studd) from England in 1620. Samuel's estate was known as "Jourdan's Journey" situated across from Berkeley. He was a young widower when he arrived in America, having left three sons, Thomas, Samuel and Robert, in England. He m. *2) in VA Cicely Reynolds, by whom he had three daughters. After Samuel's death in 1623, a muster of the inhabitants of "Jourdan's Journey" was taken, listing Cicely Jordan with three daus., then servants named, coats of mail, five houses and two boats.

Samuel was a Member of the First Assembly at Jamestown in 1619, and was listed as a "Gentleman Planter" at Charles City. He was a member of a committee to review the first four books into which the Great Charter of VA was divided. Samuel Jordan, Jr. settled in Surry Co. and Robert was killed by Indians.

Source: NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES, PP. 264-265

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Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I
Brgesses and Other Prominent Persons

Samuel Jordan settled on the James River at and early date and called his place "Jourdan's Journey". He represented the plantation in the first assembly in 1619. In the massacre of 1622 he successfully fought off the Indians. He died in 1623, and his widow Cecilly married William Ferrar, of the council of state, after a flirtation with the minister of the parish, Greville Pooley, which was taken notice of by the council in a solemn proclamation.
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Source:  Mandy Burgess,  "Our Family Tree", 2003


From Pedigree #2778
Came to America prior to 1623 and returned to England for study at Oxford's All Souls College, where matriculated 1623-24. He returned to America as he was awarded, May 1625, 450 acres in the "Territory of Great Weyonoke". Little else is known of him. It is deduced from wills and other records of his descendents that he moved to Surry County, VA, then to Lunenburg County, and that his descendents moved west to Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana.

Samuel came to Virginia in 1610
From Helen's Newsletter: Samuel Jordan sailed on 2 June 1609 from England aboard the SeaVenture as one of 400 passengers in Sir George Somer's fleet of eight ships. He was an English gentleman who was to play an important part in the continued success of the James Towne Colony.

All went well with Somer's flotilla until it encountered a terrific tropical storm near the Bermudas. After the storm had subsided, it was found that seven of the ships in the flotilla were still seaworthy, but the eighth...the Seaventure carrying 150 passengers, including the officials and many of the English Gentlemen, was hopelessly stranded between two coral reefs. The unspoiled food and equipment on the Seaventure was transferred to the other ships. The passengers chose to remain on the island. Soon after the seven ships had become mere specks on the distant horizon, Sir George Somers, Samuel Jordan, and a group of stranded passengers set out to repair the Seaventure and free her from the menacing coral rocks. They soon found the ship damaged beyond repair and a new one had to be built.

It was decided to build two ships in order to transfer the supplies they hoped to gather on this most productive island to the colony of Virginia. For nine months, the stranded men worked in shifts. Some of them worked at building the boats--the Patience and the Deliverer--another group hunted wild hog, another fished, and still another group made salt from the sea water for the preservation of fish and meat. Another group was assigned to catching giant turtles and rendering them into oil. At off-times, groups of men hunted for pearls.

All of the aforementioned tasks were performed by day; but at night, by the light from wooden torches, there was another task to be done. It was the task of keeping a day by day journal of even the most trivial happenings of the day. Because he was well educated, this task fell to Samuel Jordan, or S'el Jourdan as he signed his work. It is said that S'el Jourdan's efforts in recording the tropical storm that Sir George Somer's flotilla encountered suggested to Shakespeare the setting of his play "The Tempest".

After arriving at James Towne the following year, Samuel established his plantation at Jordan's Journey, Nansemond Co, VA. He named his home "Beggars Bush". Samuel was elected from Charles City as a representative to the House of Burgesses. He was representative at the first representative assembly in the New World being elected July 30, 1619 at Jamestown, Virginia.

Samuel survived the Indian Massacre of 1622 and died in 1623. He was survived by three sons: Thomas, Samuel, and Robert, and two daughters: Mary and Margaret.

* You can find part of the log written by S'el Jourdan, which is captioned "A Descovery of the Barmudas" otherwise called "Isles of Devils", printed in Hakluyt's Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries, Volume 5, page 555.



Came to Virginia in 1610
Samuel was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses thefirst electedbody in thees, 30 July 1619.
Sources: "Five Hundred First Families of America" by Alexander DuBin
"These Jordans Were Here" by Octavia Jordan Perry
"Bachelor-Williams Families and Related Lines" by Lyle Keith Williams
"Behold Virginia: The Fifth Crown" by George F. Willison

Samuel's first wife died about 1608 and Samuel arranged to leave his three young sonslatives before setting sail for the New World. As fortune would have it, hewas on theSea Venture" that shipwrecked in Bermuda in July 1609. The survivors constructed tworom the wreckage and eventually continued on to Jamestown, arriving in May 1610.w years Samuel established a plantation at a place which he called "Jordan's Journey"d on the south side of the James River some miles upstream from Jamestown [near theown of Hopewell and at a point where the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge nowver]. In 1620 Samuel met and married a widow named Cicely Baley and they had two, Mary and Margaret.

In 1622, the local indian tribes organized a surprise attack on the English colonists, andny men, women and children were killed. After the attack,Samuel gathered together aivors at Begger's Bush, the name of the plantation house at Jordan's Journey. Hehe place and lived there despite the enemy, with the approval of Governor Francist the time of a survey in 1623, Begger's Bush housed 42 people, including manymilies who had gone there for protection. In early 1623 Samuel was still established ins plantation. Samuel died at Jordan's Journey sometime before April 1623 and anf his estate included Cicely and her two young daughters, two plantations, five houses,oats, ten servents, and several coats of chainmail.
Samuels three adult sons from his first marriage, Thomas, Robert and Samuel areave come to Virginia in the 1620's. Robert reportedly died on March 22,1622 duringn massacre. He was killed at Berkley's Hundred, some five miles up the river fromourney, when he went there to warn the inhabitants there of the planned indian attack.
Samuel represented Charles City at the first representative assembly that convened atwn, July 30, 1619. The assembly consisted of two elected representatives from each ofeven boroughs in the colony. Samuel was also a member of a committee appointed toe "Greate Charter" of Virginia.
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Source Information:
Kinard, June. comp.Early Immigrants to Virginia 1587-1699. Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc.,ublished by The Researchers, PO box 39063, Indianapolis IN. 46239-0063.

JORDAN, SAMUEL, (died 1623) Came from France in the ""Sea Venture"" in 1610.town. Member of the first legislative assembly in America at Jamestown in 1619. Wife''se Cicely_______.




This Branch of the Jordan family probably originated in France and become associated with the reform movement (huguenots). They went to England and eventually came to the New World.

King James I of England granted a charter for settling two plantations in America; one in the Massachusetts area and the other in the Virginia area. The charter for the southern area was granted in 1606.

In December, 1606, three small ships and 104 colonists left England and arrived in Viriginia, May 14, 1607. This colony at Jamestown, VA, became the first permanent English Colony, notwithstanding the fact that it almost collapsed a time or two.

Samuel Jordan (1578-1623), the first of the Jordans to come to America, left Plymouth, England on June 18, 1609, and sailed for James Towne with the interim governor, Sir Thomas West. They sailed on the Seaventure with Sixe hundred land men in a fleet of eight good ships and one pinnance under the command of Sir George Somers, Somers flotilla encountered a severe storm near the Bermudas, which left the Seaventure unseaworthy. The other ships continued on their way to Jamestown. The passengers of the Seaventure, including Governor West, Samuel Jordan, and the Flotilla Commander, Sir George Somers, decided to stay in Bermuda and build two new ships, instead of attempting to repair the Seaventure, in order to carry additional food and supplies the island provided. Samuel Jordan was elected to keep the day-to-day journal because he was well educated.

Samuel's log serves as the basis of much of our information today. The shipwrecked persons built two new ships, the Patience and the Deliverer partly out of the wreckage of the Seaventure. They set sail again for James Towne, May 10, 1610, and arrived on July 25, 1610.

His first wife, whom he married in England, probably died before he departed for America. She was dead by 1620 as he was considered a special catch for any eligible woman at that time.

Samuel Jordan was a member of the first House of Burgesses, the first legislative body in the Western World, a representative of James City, convened at James City, July 30, 1619, by Sir George Yardley, Knight, governor and Captaine General of Virginia.

A land grant of 450 acres was conveyed by Gov. Yardley, December 10,. 1620, to Samuel and Cecily Jordan, which lay on the south side of the James river just below the confluence of the Appomattox with the James, and he called his plantation "Jordan's Journey". He built a manor house on it which he spoke of as "Beggars' Bush". Both Samuel and Cicely have been accored the title of "Ancient Planter, by Virginia. When an Indian uprising occured in that vicinty on March 22, 1622, Samuel gathered his family and neighbors into his home, fortified it, and survived. But his son, Robert, was killed by the Indians.


From: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/t/a/Larry-R-Stanley/GENE9-0001.html
Thanks are also due to Jordan researchers Barbara Hamman (( vada26@aol.com )) and Claudia Cox Welton
(( coxwelton@home.com )).


Samuel Jordan was aboard the Seaventure, as were Sir Thomas Gates, the Governor, and Sir George Somers. A sever storm was encountered off the coast of Bermuda in the latter part of July 1609. The Seaventure was wrecked beyond repair. The other ships outrode the storm and proceeded to Jamestown with the Seaventure's cargo, but none of her passengers.

The officers and crew of the Seaventure remained on the coast of Bermuda for nine months building two ships, aptly named Patience and Deliverer. The ships arrived at Jamestown in May 1610. Samuel Jordan, an educated man, was assigned the task of keeping a record of events which are found in Hakluytls "Voyages, Travels and Discoveries.''

In 1618 Samuel married Cicely a widow with a young daughter, Temperance Bailey. Cicely was born in England in 1600 and arrived in America in 1610 aboard the Swan. I have also read that she was his cousin through William Phippen and Joan Jordaine.

Samuel Jordan was a member of the first House of Burgesses, a representative of St. James City, which was convened in 1619 by George Yeardley, Governor and Captain general of Virginia. This was the first legislative body to convene in America.

A land grant of four hundred and fifty acres was made at St. James City in 1620 to Samuel and Cicely. He patented the
land, which lay on the south side of the James River just below the confluence of the Appomattox with the James. He called his plantation "Jordan's Journey" or "Jordan's Point."
Both Samuel and Cicely were accorded the title of Ancient
Planters.

Samuel Jordan and Cicely received land grants for being "Ancient Planters".
On one of these grants on the south side of James River, Samuel built a very large plantation called "Jordan's Journey", where he and his family survived the Indian Massacre. However, Samuel died the following year in March 1623 at his home, called "Beggars Bush" (present locationis Prince George Co., Virginia).
When the Indian Massacre-occurred in March 1622, Samuel gathered his family and neighbors into his home and fortified it. His son, Robert, was killed by the Indians "at Berkley-Hundred some five miles from Charles City." Although it would seem that Thomas Jordan had several children, only one is on record.

Thomas Jordan II was born in Virginia in 1634; died 1700.
He married Margaret Brashere in 1659, the daughter of Robert
Brashere of Huguenot decent.

He was the first Quaker of his family and became very prominent in that faith. He had ten sons, some of whom became Quaker ministers, and two daughters. All his children were born in Nansemond County, Virginia.

Samuel's name is inscribed on the momument erected on the site of Jamestown Virginia. In 1619 he was a nember of the first House of Burgesses, from Charles City.
Samual Jordan came to america on June 10, 1610...

Note: "Meet our ancestors:Culbreth, Autry, Maxwell-Bundy, Winslow, Henley and allied families"(second ed), by V. Mayo Bundy, Media, Inc., Greensboro, NC Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Bennett College, 1978.
Birth: ABT 1578 in Wiltshire, England
Death: MAR 1623 in Charles City, VA
Burial:
Endowment: 13 JUL 1939
Sealing Child:
LDS Baptism: 12 JUL 1939


SAMUEL JORDAN
Charles City, Virginia
ca 1577-1623


Sanuel Jordan came to Virginia, 1610, according to the patent for 450 acres in Charles City issued to him 10 Dec. 1620, which recited that he was "as ancient planter who hath abode ten years complete in this colony." This grant was divided in three parcels which, together with houses thereon, are described in the patent.

The location at which Samuel Jordan lived originally was called "Beggar's Bush," and after the massacre of 22 March 1621/2, "Master Samuel Jordan gathered together but a few of the stragglers about him at 'Beggar's Bush,' where he fortified and lived in despite of the enemy."

In maintaining his settlement Jordan had the approval of Governor Francis Wyatt who wrote to the Council in London, April 1622, "that he thought fitt to hold a few outlying places including the plantation of Mr. Samuel Jordan's; but to abandon others and concentrate the colonists at Jamestown." By 1623, this plantation on the south side of James River across from "Berkeley" was known as "Jordan's Journey."

Samuel Jordan represented Charles City at the first representative legislative assembly in the new world which convened at Jamestown, 30 July 1619. He died before April 1623 and the following November a warrent was issued "to Mr. Farrar to bring in the account of Mr. Jordan's estate." and at the same time "another warrant was issued to Mrs. Jordan that Mr. Farrar put in security for the performance of her husband's will."

Samuel Jordan married Sisley (Cicely) [---], who came to Virginia in 1611 and was listed in the census of 1623/4 at "Jordan's Journey." (See below) She presumably was the widow of [---] Baley and mother of Temperance Baley. She married (3), 1625, William Farrar.

Issue of marriage to Sisley: Mary, born in Virginia, 1621; Margaret, born in Virginia, 1623.

(Source: Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5; pages 378-379; published by Order of First Families of Virginia, 1607-1624/5.)



THE MUSTER OF THE INHABITANTS
OF JORDANS JORNEY AND CHAPLAIN CHOICE
TAKEN THE 21TH OF JANUARY 1624

THE MUSTER OF MR. WILLIAM FERRAR & MRS. JORDAN

William Ferrar aged 31 yeares in the Neptune
in August 1618

Sisley Jordan aged 24 yeares in the Swan in August 1610

Mary Jordan her daughter aged 3 yeares - borne heare
Margrett Jordan aged 1 yeare - borne heare
Temperance Baley aged 7 yeares - borne heare

SERVANTS: (Ten males between the ages of 16 and 35 with names listed along with the ship names and dates of their arrival in Virginia.)

PROVISIONS: Corne, 200 bushells; Fish, 2 hundred.

ARMES AND MUNITION: Powder, 14 lb; Lead, 300 lb; Peeces fixt, 11; Coats of Male, 12.

CATTLE, SWINE, ETC.: Neat cattel young and old, 16; Swine, 4; Poultrie, 20.

HOUSES AND BOATS: Houses, 5; Boats, 2.

(Source: Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5; pages 16 & 17; published by Order of First Families of Virginia, 1607-1624/5.)



(ed. note: The following are notes compiled by Mrs. Sara Sullivan Ervin, Ware Shoals, South Carolina, January, 1965.)

Samuel Jourdan left Dorchester, England, in the Sea Voyage in 16-- with Sir George Somers. They were wrecked off the coast of Bermuda 1608 and arrived in Virginia 1609. Two authorities say he was married twice. Our family records say he was married first in France and daughter Anne Marie was born there 1597. One authority says that Samuel Jourdan came to Virginia when he was about 32 and that he arrived in 1609. He married second wife, Cicely [---] in 1618.

Samuel Jourdan was a member of House of Burgesses 1619 and of the first Legislature that convened in America. After the Great Massacre of 1621 he gathered together the stragglers left about him at Beggar's Point, fortified it, and held it in spite of all the Indians and disturbances. He died 1623. His home was on the James River, known as Jourdan's Point.




JOURDAN'S JOURNEY -- The plantation took its name from its founder, Captain Samuel Jourdan, and embraced about 450 acres in 1625. Also he established Beggar's Point in 1619. In the 1619 Assembly he represented Charles City. He was one of a committee of four appointed to examine the first books of the power of the "Greate Charter." In 1622 he received a share of Company stock as well as 100 acres in "Digges His Hundred." At this time he was listed as "Samuel Jordan of Charles Hundred, gentleman." He died 1623.

Jourdan's Journey seems to have prospered. In 1624 Nathaniel Causy represented the plantation in Assembly. Captain Jourdan came to Virginia 1609 which was just before the starving time. He patented 450 acres just below the confluence of the Appotomax and the James Rivers, or Beggar's Point. The same year he represented his own and neighboring plantations in the First House of Burgesses. When the Indian massacre occurred in 1622, Jourdan's Journey and all its people were saved. Samuel Jourdan gathered the neighbors in his home which he fortified "where he lived in despite of the enemy."

The minister who conducted his funeral proposed the same day to his widow (Cecily Jourdan) telling her she needed someone to protect her. However, she soon became engaged to Colonel William Farrar and later married him and moved to henrico County, Virginia.

In 1676 at Jordan's Journey the volunteers of Charles City, south of the James River, assembled to join in Bacon's Rebellion.

About the time of Cecily's marital troubles, the local courts initiated the first breach of promise suit. She won out. The minister was required to pledge 500 pounds and "never to have any title or claim on her." The Council then enacted a law which prohibited women from engaging themselves to several men at the same time.

(Source: First Seventeen Years in Virginia 1607-24, published by Anniversary Celebration Corportation, 1957, by Charles E. Hatch, Jr., Page 67.)

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Source:  Cliff Roberts, "Cansler Family in America", 2003.


"Captain" Samuel Jordan was a "gentleman" and a family man. He had
married for a second time in 1618 to Cicely Baley. Who his first wife
was, and when she died, is no longer known. It is clear that the two
had been married in England and family historians know of four
children; Anne Marie, Robert, Thomas, and Samuel. Thomas did not come
to America until 1623, when he arrived on the "Diana." Whether the
others came together or seperately, with their father, their mother,
or both is not known. It is recorded that son Samuel was sent back
to England in 1623 to study at Oxford's All Soul's College. He would
return to Virginia in 1625. Samuel Jordan's second wife Cicely Baley
was a widow, maiden name unknown, who had a young daughter Temperance
Baley. Cicely had arrived in Virginia on the Swan in 1610. Samuel
and Cicely would have two daughters; Mary and Margaret.