Maj. Dominicus Jordan, Jr.

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Major Dominicus Jordan Jr.

Born 1683 in Spurwink, Cape Elizabeth, Maine (Massachusetts Bay), New England

Son of Dominicus Jordan Sr and Hannah (Tristram) Greenleaf

Brother of Unknown Deering [half], Samuel Jordan, Sarah C. Jordan, Ralph Jordan, Mary Ann Arabelle Jordan, Elizabeth (Jordan) Scammon, Hannah (Jordan) Calef, Hannah Jordan, Nathaniel Jordan and Susanna (Jordan) Crouch

Husband of Johannah Bray (Deering) Jordan — married 1708 in Kittery, York, Maine

Father of Mary (Jordan) Cushing, Miriam (Jordan) Mitchell, Dominicus Jordan, Nathaniel Jordan, Tristram Jordan and Hannah (Jordan) Prout

Died 20 May 1749 in Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine, Massachusetts Bay Province, New England

Profile last modified 28 Aug 2019 | Created 6 Aug 2015

Biography

Dominicus Jordan was born about 1683. Dominicus Jordan passed away about 1749.[1]

Dominicus Jordan, Jr. was born at Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, Maine in 1683. [2] His parents were Dominicus Jordan and Hannah Tristram. [2] He married Joanna Deering, the daughter of Clement Deering and Joan Bray. [2]

When he was about nineteen years old he was taken prisoner by Indians and carried to Trois Rivieres, Canada. He was kept more than ten years, during which time learned the Indian language. Finally able to make his escape, he returned in 1715 to Spurwink and remained there throughout his life. [2] He was active in the affairs of the town and became Major of the local Militia. He also represented both his father's and his uncle's estates. [2] He was a Selectman of the Town of Falmouth and became a large land proprietor. [2] He made his will in 1746 of which his wife was named sole executrix. She survived him by many years. [2]

Birth

1683, Spurwink (Cape Elizabeth), Maine. [2]

Death

20 May 1749. [2]

Marriage

Dominicus Jordan and Joanna Deering were married about 1714. [2]

Children:

Nathaniel Jordan Will, full text of at source

Will dated 7th Day of March in the 22d year of His Majts Reign A. D. 1748. Domini. Iordan (Seal)Signed Sealed published & declared by the Said Dominicus Jordan in presence of Iaz Fox Cha : ffrost Sarah X Conner her mark

Ioanna Iordan my dearly beloved Wife my Sister Arrabella's my Daughter Miriam Mitchell the Wife of Robert Mitchell my Daughter Mary Cushing the Wife of Ezekiel Cushing my aforesd Daughter Hannah Iordan (now Hannah Prout) my Son Nathaniel Iordan & Clement Iordan and Dominicus Jordan Will probated 10 Nov. 1750: Codicil probated 31 Dec. 1750. Inventory returned 6 Feby 1749, at £13161: 11: 4, old tenor, by Christo: Strout, Jabez Fox and Robert Thorndike, appraisers. [3]

Sources

↑ Will probated 10 Nov. 1750. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Tristram Frost Jordan. The Jordan Memorial: Family Records of the Rev. Robert Jordan and His Descendants in America, Boston: D. Clapp & Son, 1882, pg. 132. ↑ http://www.mainegenealogy.net/maine_wills.asp?source=probatecourtvo... FindAGrave Acknowledgments

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(III) Dominicus (2) Jordan, eldest son of Dominicus and Hannah (Tristram) Jordan, was born at Spurwink, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, in 1683, died May 20, 1749. At the time of the Indian outbreak, soon after 1700, he was captured by the Indians and taken to Trois Rivieres (Three Rivers), Canada, and held prisoner there for something like twelve or thirteen years before he was successful in making his escape. While living among the Canadian Indians he became quite familiar with the dialects of several of the tribes, and that knowledge served him as useful pupose in later years. He returned to Spurwink in 1715 and lived in that town during the remaining years of his life. He was a very active man in public affairs, holding several important town offices and was one of the selectmen the first year after the incorporation of Falmouth, representative to the general court and major of the provincial militia. He also was energetic in business life and acquired a large property in lands and goods.

He married, in Kittery, Joanna Bray Deering, who survived him many years.

Children, b. in Spurwink:

• 1. Dominicus, b. June 15, 1715, died 1786; married Phebe Gray.
• 2. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 24, 1718.
• 3. Clement, b. April 24, 1720, died 1789.
• 4. Mary, married (first) ____ Parker, (second) Colonel Ezekiel Cushing.
• 5. Tristram, b. April 11, 1726, died March 18, 1727.
• 6. Miriam, married Robert Mitchell, of Kittery.
• 7. Hannah, b. March 12, 1728, married Joseph Prout.

Links

• http://dunhamwilcox.net/me/me_bio_jordan.htm
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=haruspex&...

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Major Dominicus Jordan, Jr. was born in 1683 at Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, Maine, USA. He was the son of Dominicus Jordan and Hannah Tristram. Dominicus Jordan Jr. married Joanna Deering, daughter of Clement Deering and Joan Bray, in 1708. Child of Dominicus Jordan Jr. and Joanna Deering: Clement Jordan b. 24 Apr 1720, d. 5 Apr 1789.