Col. Samuel Jordan, Jr.

Daughters of the American Revolution Records
JORDAN, SAMUEL. Ancestor #: A063008
Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE
Birth: 2-7-1707 HENRICO CO VIRGINIA
Death: 7-21-1789 BUCKINGHAM CO VIRGINIA
Service Source: SCRIBNER & TARTER, REVOLUTIONARY VA: ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE, VOL 7, PP 487, 599
Service Description: 1) COMMISSIONER TO ADVANCE MONEY FOR ERECTING A BLAST FURNACE
RESIDENCE: 1) County: BUCKINGHAM CO - State: VIRGINIA
SPOUSE: 1) RUTH MEREDITH 2) JUDITH SCOTT WARE

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?Did he have another wife-Ruth Meredith who had children: Mary Jordan m. Essex William Winston who had a son Geddes Winston.

Col. Samuel Jordan Jr. served with Civil Service, Virginia during the American Revolution. Samuel Jordan Jr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A063008. Samuel was born in 1704. He is the son of Samuel Jordan and Elizabeth Fleming.

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Col. Samuel Jordan Jr. aka Jordon
Born 7 Feb 1704 in Henrico, Colony of Virginia
Died 21 Jul 1789 at age 85 in Buckingham, Virginia, United States

Son of Samuel Jordan Sr. and Elizabeth (Fleming) Raley

Brother of Charles Jordan, William Jordan and Matthew Jordan

Husband of Ruth (Meredith) Jordan — married about 1740 in Virginia

Husband of Judith (Scott) Jordan — married 18 Feb 1744 in Goochland County, Virginia, Colony of Virginia

Father of Caroline Matilda (Jordan) Rose, Margaret Wilhemina (Jordan) McKnight, Paulina (Jordan) Cabell, Wilhelmina (Jordan) Wyatt and Margaret Meredith (Jordan) Cabell

Col Samuel Jordan, settled at the Seven Islands, on the south side of James River, in the present county of Buckingham, where he owned a considerable body of land. He also owned 5250 acres on Jordan's Creek in Halifax County, and 4699 acres in Albemarle He was a justice of the peace for Albemarle, 1746 1761 a captain in 1753 sheriff 1753 1755 presiding justice of the peace and county lieu tenant of the new county of Buckingham in 1761 The records of this county having been destroyed I have but little material to base a sketch upon He is said to have been a burgess from Buckingham 1761 1766 He was certainly a burgess from that county in 1767 and 1769.

"I find this entry in Col. Cabell's diary Aug 28th, 1775: 'Returned from the Convention Delivered Mr. John Nicholas 61 for himself and 43 for Col. Samuel Jordan which Mr. Turner Southall sent them In presence of Patrick Rose.' I suppose that this money was paid for some public service.

"Although an old man at the beginning of the Revolution, Col. Jordan served as colonel of the militia of his county and as a member of the county committee After June 1776 he was State Commissioner of the States Foundry for casting of cannon in Buckingham. (1)

" 'July 21st 1789 Col. Samuel Jordan who had been long ill departed this life at a very advanced age He bore his illness with great fortitude and resigned himself to the Divine will with the greatest composure.' (William Cabell's Diary.)

"I do not know the names of Col Samuel Jordan's parents I only know that his mother was the daughter of Col Charles Fleming of New Kent who died about 1728 and sister of Col. John Fleming county lieutenant of Gooch land who married Mary Bolling The early records of New Kent and Hanover are missing The Flemings were originally from Scotland According to one tradition Col Samuel Jordan was descended from Samuel Jordan of Jordan's point who came to Virginia at an early date.(2)"[4]

Daughters of the American Revolution Records
JORDAN, SAMUEL. Ancestor #: A063008
Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE
Birth: 2-7-1707 HENRICO CO VIRGINIA
Death: 7-21-1789 BUCKINGHAM CO VIRGINIA
Service Source: SCRIBNER & TARTER, REVOLUTIONARY VA: ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE, VOL 7, PP 487, 599
Service Description: 1) COMMISSIONER TO ADVANCE MONEY FOR ERECTING A BLAST FURNACE
RESIDENCE: 1) County: BUCKINGHAM CO - State: VIRGINIA
SPOUSE: 1) RUTH MEREDITH 2) JUDITH SCOTT WARE

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