Isabel Jordan

Isabel Jordan, who was of Scotch-Irish lineage arrived with her parents in Pennsylvania, from Ireland, at the age of 15. Her first husband was the Welshman named John Wray, whom she married prior to 1737. They had one child, a daughter named Mary born 1737 of Lancaster Co. Pennsylvania. Mary Wray is mentioned on her grandfather's John Jordan 1750 will of Lancaster Co. Pennsylvania.

After the death of her husband, Isabel married again, to a Barber. The second husband also died, leaving Isabel another child, John Barber, and in very straitened circunstances. She lived with her two small children with her father until the children were old enough to be bound out.

Mary Wray was thus raised by her uncle, Col John Jordan, brother of her mother, and married John Wilson. Her husband, moved to Lincoln Co. NC, and there the Wilsons and Barbers, from her son, lived on Crowders Creek near their uncle John Jordan Jr. and Richard Venable.