Samuel Jordan was born probably in Dorsetshire, England ca. 1578 and died in 1623 at the plantation he built on the James River near the Jamestown Colony of Virginia called Jordan's Journey. [1] [13] [16]

Samuel Jordan survived the Indian attacks of March 22 1622 but died before the 'Jamestown Muster' dated February 16 1623, as he is not listed among the living at that time but is also not listed as among those who died in the attacks.

Sylvester Jourdain was a different person, perhaps a cousin. He returned to England.

Parents: William Jourdain and ? / Robert Jordan and ?? [2] [3]

Marriages

1. at around age 18 and bef. 1596 in England to Frances ?? She died before 1609. [4] [5]
2. about 1619 to Cicely Reynolds Bayley (ca. 1602-1662), widow of Thomas Bayley (or Bailey). [6] [7] Cecily was pregnant with Margaret when Samuel died [8]

Children of Samuel Jordan and his first wife All born in England, and all followed their father to the New World:

1. Anne Marie (Jordan) Hulet, born England 1596, married Laurence Hulet.
2. Joane Jordan, born England 1597, married Thomas Palmer, immigrated Nov 1621 aboard the Tyger and was living at Jordan's Journey at the time of the Indian Massacre
3. Robert Jordan, born England 1598, immigrated in 1619 (as a Bridewell immigrant), died 22 Mar 1622 in the Great Indian Massacre of 1622.'
4. Samuel Jordan, born in England 1608.

Comment:

Thomas Jordan, born England 1600, immigrated to the Virginia Colony aboard the Diana in 1620, married Lucy (Corker) Jordan (born 1605), and died 1644. [We do not have evidence supporting him as Samuel Jordan’s son]

Children of Samuel Jordan and Cecily Bailey

Born in Jordan's Journey, Virginia:

1. Mary Jordan, born 1621 or 1622.
2. Margaret Jordan, born Jordan's Journey in 1623, after her father's death, The breach of promise suit against Cecily documents the pregnancy and that Samuel Jordan was the father of her baby.

Biography

Samuel Jordan at age 31, was a member of the Virginia Company of London. He embarked on the journey to the New World under the "Second Charter" on the "Seaventure" commanded by Captain Christopher Newport, who was previously commander of the Susan Constant in 1607, the John & Francis in 1607-1608, and the Mary & Margaret in 1608. True to its name, those aboard the Seaventure set sail for a truly memorable Sea Adventure.

The new governor, Lord De La Ware, and John Rolfe were also on the ship. They were shipwrecked on an island in the Bermudas and spent nine months of hard labor building a new vessel before sailing on to Jamestown. Jordan, one of the most educated on the ship, was chosen to keep a journal of the proceedings, published in London under the title A Discovery of Bermudas. [9]

According to tradition, the voyage of the Sea Venture to the New World became the basis for William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" which was based on the account written by passenger Sir William Strachey: A True Repertory of the Wreck and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight, 1610.

The Jamestown settlers were about to return to England when Jordan's ship brought a reinforcement of men and supplies and saved the Jamestown settlement. Samuel was granted 450 acres of land in his own right and 250 acres more for transporting his five servants.

He first settled at "Jordan's Journey" near the confluence of the Appomattox and James Rivers - on the James just south of the mouth of the Appomattox. Samuel Jordon later added large holdings on the south bank of the James at Jordon's Point, where he built a house called "Beggars Bush." The neighbor to the north of the Jordans was Captain John Woodlief who had already held the first American Thanksgiving in 1619 at Berkeley Plantation. John Rolfe (II) their neighbor to the south, had won and lost Pocahontas. [10]

He was a Member of the first Assembly at Jamestown in 1619 and was listed as a gentleman planter at Charles City. The land patent officially signed in 1619 by Colonial Governor Sir George Yardley named him "Ancient Planter", [11] a title granted in recognition of only those very few early settlers who survived a decade. The grant also referred to Captain Jordan as "Gentleman" in honor of his position as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the first legislative body in the New World.

He was a member of the committee to review the first four books into which the Great Charter of Virginia was divided and represented Charles City at the first representative legislative assembly in the New World which convened at Jamestown, 30 July 1619. A marker at Jamestown, Virginia, lists the names of the Burgesses who represented the different areas of the Jamestown Colony; he represented Charles City.

The Powhattan Indians tried to destroy the entire English Colony on Good Friday, 1622. Fortunately for the Jordons, they received a forewarning in time to protect "Beggar's Bush" against attack and save their buildings and most of the livestock. [12] Jordan's Journey was a stronghold of the colony to which settlers fled for safety when attacked by Indians. [13]

After the Massacre, "Master Samuel Jordan gathered together but a few of the stragglers about him at 'Beggar's Bush' where he fortified himself and lived in despight of the enemy." Governor Wyatt wrote to the Virginia Company, April 1622, "that he thought fit to hold a few outlying places, including the plantation of Mr. Samuel Jordan; but to abandon others and concentrate the colonists at Jamestown." [15]

Samuel Jordan is known to have died prior to the February 16, 1623 census of Virginia colonists because his name is conspicuously missing from the list of inhabitants at Jordan's Journey. [14] It is not known where he is buried. A team of archaeologists began excavating Jordan’s Journey in 1990 and finished in 1992. Hinges that may have been from a document box were found in one grave containing a male 35 to 39 years old and its theorized that this might have been the grave of Samuel Jordan. [16]

These were the Laws in 1612, the same area and time of Samuel Jordan

Lawes Devine, Morall, and Martiall For the Colony of Virginea Britannia, 1612

http://www.kjkahn.com/essays/founders/lawes.html

Please see the site that Erica Howton discovered on the excavation of Jordan's Point and Jordan's Journey. It is fascinating and shows relics recovered (including possibly Samuel Jordan's bones) related to the Jordan family as well as Richard Bland (neighbor). Site is unbelievable!

Jordan's Journey (44PG302). (tDAR ID: 6063)

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Samuel Jordan, born in England, arrived in America in 1610 after a 14-month journey. The ship he was on, the Sea Venture, wrecked on an island in the Bermudas where nine months of hard labor were spent building 3 new vessels before sailing on to Jamestown. It is often speculated that Jordan was selected to keep a journal of the proceedings, published in London under the title A Discovery of Bermudas. The new governor, Lord De La Ware, and John Rolfe were also shipwrecked in this same group and arrived in Virginia in the Bermuda built vessels. This reinforcement of men and supplies saved the Jamestown settlement whose survivors were about to return to England.

In Virginia, designated an 'Ancient Planter' Samuel was granted 450 acres of land in his own right and 250 acres more for transporting five servants. His estate was known as Jordan's Journey and was located on the James River, just south of the mouth of the Appomattox, adjacent to the property of John Rolfe and his wife Pocahontas. He was a Member of the first House of Burgesses, assembled at Jamestown church in July 1619, the first legislative assembly in the 'New World' and the oldest ongoing lawmaking body in America to this day. He represented Charles Citie and was a member of the committee to review the first four books of the Great Charter of Virginia. During the Indian ambush of March 1622 Jordan gathered many of his neighbors behind the fortified walls of Jordan's Journey, and as a result they lived while 20% of the colonists died. Unfortunately, his own son Robert was killed when he went to warn the settlement across the river of the pending attack. The colonists were ordered to abandon all outlying properties and withdraw to a select few fortified locations, Jordan's Journey was one of these locations. Samuel, a widower with a family from his first marriage, married Cecily (Bailey?) who had arrived in Virginia on the Swann in 1611.Cecily was a widow herself with a small daughter already when they married, and they had two daughters: Mary born about 1621 and Margaret born in 1623 after her fathers death.

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Links

• A New Look at Early Chesapeake Sites: Jordan’s Journey
• Jack Jordan Book
• From Virginia Through the Southwest: Information about Samuel Jordan by Lyndall J. Mayes
• Samuel Jordan
• http://www.geocities.com/knighthistory/VirginiaKnights.htm
• Jordan's Journey, A website about the Jordan family
• Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Tyler, p. 269
• Margaret V. Woodrough, Compiler
• Report of Herbert Wade Doyle Jr.
• Ancestors
• Jourdain, Silvester, and Joseph Q. Adams. A Discovery of the Barmudas (1610). New York, N. Y: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1940.
• http://www.sonofthesouth.net/revolutionary-war/indians/opechancanou...
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101648160/samuel-jordan : accessed 08 January 2022), memorial page for Samuel Jordan (1578–Apr 1623), Find a Grave Memorial ID 101648160, citing Jordan Point Plantation Cemetery, Jordan Point Manor, Prince George County, Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Sue (contributor 47441299) .
• Dorman, John F., Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-25, Families G-P. Page 363-364. < GoogleBooks > Genealogist John Dorman mentions neither Robert or Samuel but leaves the possibility that Thomas Jordan who arrived on the Diana in 1619 at age 18 is his son, though this lacks conclusive primary source documentation.
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jordan-224#_note-Boddie

Footnotes

• [1] Before telling the Jordan story, we should say something about the pronunciation of the surname. Jordan in many cases was and is spoken as to rhyme with burden. Reports tell of many Jordan families in Virginia and elsewhere today who use this traditional pronunciation: Jurden. And they are among the descendants of Samuel Jordan. (Woodrough)
• [2] The Jordans were related to Phippin family in Dorsetshire, and Samuel is said to have been Cecily Phippin's first cousin, one generation removed. (Woodrough)
• [3] According to one account, as related in the book THESE JORDANS WERE HERE by Octavia Jordan Perry, the Jordans originally bore the name Deandon. The first of the Deandons came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066 and settled in Devon. Later a William Deandon went to Palestine with the Crusaders around 1200, and upon his return to England he was knighted as Sir William de Jordan. During the reign of James I, part of the large family of Ignatius Jordan, a descendent of Sir William, migrated to the New World. Other Jordans went to Ireland, and some remained in England. (Doyle)
• Historical records tell us the following: Silvester Jourdain (Jourdan) was a son of William Jourdain (Jourdan) of Lume Regis, Dorsetshire, brother of Ignatius, and cousin of John. Silvester accompanied Sir George Summers and Sir Thomas Gates, deputy governors of Virginia, on their trip to that colony in 1609-1610, and he experienced shipwreck on Bermuda (Samuel Jordan was on the same ship and the two are sometimes confused by researchers). On his return to England, Silvester wrote "A Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of Divils". It is believed that Shakespeare used this and other shipwreck survivor accounts as background for "The Tempest". (Doyle)
• [4] His first wife may have been either of English or French descent. (Jordan's Journey)
• [5] Samuel Jordan was in Virginia about a decade before any of his children. Reports show that he was a widower when he arrived in Jamestown. There is no clue as to how the children were cared for during his absence in the New World. (Woodrough)
• [6] Legend says that she was spoken of as a "a notorious flirt" and "the Glamour Girl" in the colony. (Jordan's Journey)
• [7] After being a widower 10 to 15 years, Samuel married Cecily Phippin Reynolds Baley about 10 years after he arrived in Jamestown. Most Jordan researchers have reported that Cecily was a lot younger than Samuel. Just how younger is a big question. Most sources say Cecily was beautiful, enchanting and mysterious. There are no descriptions of Samuel Jordan, but he no doubt had a command presence and would be attractive for that reason if none other. ... By all accounts, Cecily was an enchanting enigma – quite a beauty and exhibiting tenderness, toughness and mystery. She was highly favored by men and befriended by women. She was reported, for example, to have been good friends with Temperance West Lady Yardley, wife of Sir George Yardley, who was then governor. (Woodrough)
• [8] After Jordan’s death in March 1623, a year after the Powhatan assault, his plantation manager William Farrar, Cecily Jordan’s husband-to-be, was issued a warrant to bring in the account of the Jordan estate. A separate warrant was issued to Cecily Jordan, ordering that Farrar put in security for the performance of her husband’s will. We could not locate a copy of the will. (Woodrough)
• Cecily always seemed to be up to something, or the people around her were up to something. Samuel Jordan’s body was hardly in the ground before suitors started competing for her attention. Among the suitors was the man who preached Samuel’s funeral, the very amorous Grivell Pooley.
• From all accounts, Preacher Pooley worked himself into a frenzy over Cecily, and although she did not discourage his efforts she eventually spurned him, and that hurt. We have no reports on the quality of his preaching during this period, but we all can imagine. Actually, Cecily didn’t exactly spurn the parson. She revealed to him that she was pregnant and did not want to marry for that reason, and also because Samuel had been dead only three days.
• Directly, Cecily became engaged to Captain William Farrar, manager of Jordan’s Journey and member of the Virginia Council, but Preacher Pooley was not the sort to go softly into the night. He filed a formal complaint in the House of Burgesses. In testimony in connection with his legal challenge, Preacher Pooley claimed that he had betrothed Cecily to himself three days after he preached Samuel Jordan’s funeral.
• Witnesses testified that the idea of marriage seemed to be the preacher’s, not Cecily’s. She was reported as saying that the preacher was about as good as any other man around but noted that she was not interested in marriage at the time. But the preacher was on a roll by now and proceeded to recite her marriage vows for her, kiss her, and share a glass of wine with her. Witnesses testified that she had not said “I do” at any point during the parson’s performance.
• The dispute became perhaps the most controversial case to reach the House of Burgesses, and the burgesses promptly dropped it like a hot potato and sent it to London where the case eventually was decided in Cecily’s favor. The House of Burgesses, meanwhile, passed a law forbidding any woman in the future from promising to marry more than one man. It is not clear what that meant, although we probably know what the burgesses intended.
• Anyway, Cecily went ahead with her marriage to William Farrar, but the strangeness of all this does not end here. Cecily then revealed to listeners a vision she had one night at Jordan’s Journey. She said she saw two hands, one pointing at her and one pointing at her youngest daughter, while she heard a voice repeat the word judgment several times. Certain colonists more attuned to spiritual matters told her that she must have been dreaming, but she insisted that she was wide awake when she had the vision. No one came forward with a suggestion as to what it all meant.
• [9] His log survived to become a valuable part of the early history of voyages to the New World. Reportedly the description he provided of the terrible Bermuda storm suggested to Shakespeare the setting for his play "The Tempest". An excerpt follows:
  • I being in ship called "Seaventure" ... we were taken with a most sharpe and cruell storme, which did not only separate vs from the residue of our fleete but with the violent working of the sea, our ship became so shaken, torne, and leaked, that shee received so much water, as covered two tir of hogsheads above the ballast, that our men stood vp to the middles, with buckets, horicos and kettles to baile out the water, and continually pumped for three days and three nights together, without any intermission ... (Jordan's Journey)
• [10] Jordan named his plantation Diggs His Hundred, which is an oddity excelling all other oddities in colonial history. The name gives us a hint that Samuel Jordan had a sense of humor. The second hint may be more than a hint. After building his home in what would later become Charles City, he named the home Beggar’s Bush. (Woodbrough)
• Beggar’s bush may have been a common expression in 17th Century England, a reference to vagabonds and where they spent the night. Vagabonds were wandering ne’er-do-wells and often beggars, and their realm was bush. Think of bush as being an outback to get a clearer meaning. Jordan perhaps was humorously calling himself a vagabond reduced to begging and living on uncleared land – the bush. Despite the gloom around him, it seems, Jordan chose to live on the brighter side as he developed his plantation. (Woodbrough)
• [11] The title ancient planter seems rather odd to the modern ear, but it no doubt carried a different connotation in the 17th Century. Check the dictionary and find that ancient and venerable are synonyms. Then look up planter and find that its second definition is settler. Therefore, ancient planter in those days could mean the same as venerable settler does today. (Woodrough}
• [12] Robert Jordan, Samuel's son with Frances, was killed during the Powhatan Massacre of 1622 at Berkeley Town and Hundred, which was on the north side of the James River across from Jordan’s Journey. (Woodrough)
• [13] Baby Mary Jordan probably had no memory of that fateful day of the vernal equinox, 22 March 1622, when the Great Indian Massacre fell on the colony like a thunderbolt from the sky.
• Early that morning Richard Pace had rowed with might and main three miles across the river from Paces Paines to Beggar's Bush to warn Samuel Jordan of the impending blow. Without losing an instant, Samuel Jordan summoned his neighbours from far and near and gathered them all, men, women and children, within his fortified home at Beggar's Bush. So resolutely was the place defended, that not a single life was lost there on that bloody day. The agony and terror of the women and children huddled together in the farthest corner of the little stronghold can only be imagined.
• The next day Mr. William Farrar reached Beggar's Bush a few miles journey from his plantation on the Appomattox River. Ten victims had been slaughtered at his home and he himself had barely escaped to safety at the Jordan's where circumstances would force him to remain for some time.
• About one third of Virginia colonists died in the Indian Massacre including Samuel's son Robert Jordan at Berkley Hundred in Charles City while trying to warn neighbors across the water of the impending Indian attack. In those days most people got around by boat and freely went from one side of the river to the other. The Berkleys were also killed. (Mayes)
• [14] Believing the English intended to seize his domains, his [Opechancanough, brother of Powhatan, "King of Pamunkey "] patriotism impelled him to strike a blow. In an affray with a settler, an Indian leader was shot, and the wily emperor made it the occasion for inflaming the resentment of his people against the English. He visited the governor in war costume, bearing in his belt a glittering hatchet, and demanded some concessions for his incensed people. It was refused, and, forgetting himself for a moment, he snatched the hatchet from his belt and struck its keen blade into a log of the cabin, uttering a curse upon the English. Instantly recovering himself, he ,smiled, and said: " Pardon me, governor; I was thinking of that wicked Englishman (see ARGALL, SAMUEL) who stole my niece and struck me with his sword. I love the English who are the friends of Powhatan. Sooner will the skies fall than that my bond of friendship with the English shall be dissolved." Sir Francis warned the people that treachery was abroad. They did not believe it. They so trusted the Indians that they had taught them to hunt with fire-arms.
• A tempest suddenly burst upon them. On April 1, 1622, the Indians rushed from the forests upon all the remote settlements, at a preconcerted time, and in the space of an hour 350 men, women, and children were slain. At Henrico, the devoted Thorpe, who had been like a father to the children and the sick of the natives, was slain. Six members of the council and several of the wealthier inhabitants were made victims of the treachery.
• On the very morning of the massacre the Indians ate at the tables of those whom they intended to murder at noon. The people of Jamestown were saved by Chanco, a Christian Indian, who gave them timely warning, and enabled them to prepare for the attack. Those on remote plantations who survived beat back the Indians and fled to Jamestown. In the course of a few days eighty of the inhabited plantations were reduced to eight. A large part of the colony were saved, and these waged an exterminating war. They struck such fearful retaliating blows that the Indians were beaten back into the forest, and death and desolation were spread over the peninsula between the York and James rivers. The emperor fled to the land of the Pamunkeys, and by a show of cowardice lost much of his influence. The power of the confederacy was broken. Before the war there were 6,000 Indians within 60 miles of Jamestown; at its close there were, probably, not 1,000 within the territory of 8,000 square miles. The colony, too, was sadly injured in number and strength. A deadly hostility between the races continued for more than twenty years. Opechancanough lived, and had been nursing his wrath all that time, prudence alone restraining him from war. His malice remained keen, and his thirst for vengeance was terrible. (Sons of the South Website)
• [15] The record is not clear as to possible casualties at Jordan’s Journey. We could find none reported. The following report could be interpreted as implying that all survived: “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.” (Woodrough)
• Following Jordan’s noteworthy accomplishment, Governor Francis Wyatt decided that Jordan’s Journey could remain in operation while most of the other plantations were abandoned indefinitely – as much as a year or more. This was a defensive move in which colonists were told to cluster around Jamestown in the event of another massive attack by the Powhatan alliance. (Woodrough)
• Opechancanough was shot in the back and killed in 1644 at the approximate age of 100. Some reports say a colonist did this on the streets of Jamestown. Others say a jailer did it after Opechancanough was captured. No matter which version is correct, the cowardly deed was by no means a proud moment in American history. (Woodrough)
• [17] From Hotten's From Persons of Quality: "A List of Names; of the Living in Virginia, February the 16, 1623 - "Living At Jordan's Jorney"
• Sislye Jordan
• Temperance Baylife
• Mary Jordan
• Margery Jordan
• William Farrar
• (37 more names follow the above listed.)
• [18] The excavation report notes that the area where Jordan’s Journey was situated was first occupied by the Weyanokes, part of the Powhatan alliance and one of the many relatively small Native American kingdoms throughout the region. (Woodrough)
• [19] Cecily Jordan and William Farrar continued to live at Jordan's Journey for several years until he patented the neck of land at the former site of the city of Henricus known as Farrar's Island. (Mayes)

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Transcription: Samuel Jordan's Original 1620 Land Patent: Lands 3 different places

VA Patents 8, p. 125 Library of Virginia Digital Collection: Land Office Patents and Grants

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Jourdan
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By ye Governour and Capt Generall of Virginia ~ To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting in our Lord God Everlasting Know yee that I George Yardley Knight Governour and Capt Generall of Virginia by vertue of ye great Charter of orders and lawes concluded on in a great and generall Quarter Court by the Treasure Councill and Company of Adventurers and planters for this first Southern Colony of Virginia (according to ye authority granted them by his Majestie under ye great seal) and by them dated at London the sixteenth of November 1618, and directed to my self and ye Councill of State here resident do with the approbation and Consent of ye same Councill who are Joyned in Comicon with me give and grant to Samuel Jourdan of Charles Citty in Virga gent an ancient planter who hath above ten years Compleat in this Colony and performed all services to ye Colony that might any way [---?] him and to his heirs and assignes for ever for part of his first Generall divident to be augmented and doubled to him by ye Company, when he shall once throughly have planted and peopled the same, four hundred and fifty acres of Land, one hundred acres in his own personall right, and out of ye rules of Justices, equity, and reason, and because ye Company themselves have given us presidents in ye like [land?] in ye personall [---?] of Cecily his wife an ancient planter also, of nine years [---?] one hundred acres more and the other two hundred and fifty acres in recompence of his transportacon out of England at his own charges of five servants namely John [Daires?] who arrived in ye year 1617 for whose passage the said Samuel hath paid to ye Cape mercts. Thomas [---erd?] ye bound [apprentice] to ye said Samuel by Indenture bearing date in England 8th: of October 1617. Robert Marshall brought out of England by Capt George Bargrave in May 1619. at ye Costs of the said Saml Jordan Alice Wad that came over ye same year in the George for whose transportacon he paid ye Cape merchants Likewise, and Thomas Sted that arrived out of ye faukcon in July 1620. which four hundred and fifty acres of Land Samuel Jordan maketh choice of in three severall places, first of one howse and fifty acres of Land called ___illes Point scituate in Charles hundred aforesaid bordering East upon ye great River west upon ye main Land south upon John Rolfes Ground and North upon ye Land of Capt John Wardeef, secondly in ye hundred last mencon'd one tenement containing twelve acres which abuts north upon the great River, East upon a swamp and south and west is incompassed by Martins hope, now in ye tenure of Capt. John Martin master of ye ordinance, and thirdly, three hundred eighty and eight acres being the remainder of ye said four hundred and fifty acres in or near upon Sandys his hundred bordering towards ye East upon ye land of Temperance Baley west upon Capt John Woodliefs Land south upon ye great River, and north upon ye main Land To have and to hold ye said four hundred and fifty acres of Land with the appurtenances and with his due share of all mines and mineralls therin contained and with all rights and priveledges of hunting hawking fishing and fowling and others within ye precincts, and upon ye borders of ye said three severall parcells of ground To ye sole and proper use benefitt and behalf of ye said Samuel Jordan his heirs and assignes for ever in as large and ample manner to all intents and purposes, as is exprest in the said Great Charter or by consequence may Justly be collected out of ye same or out of his Majesties Letters patents whereon It is grounded yeilding and paying to ye said Treasurer and Company and to their successors for ever yearly at ye feast of St Michael the Archangell for every fifty acres of all ye Land abovemencon'd the fee Rent of one shilling provided that his foresaid three hundred Eighty and eight acres in or near Sandis hundred aforesd do extend in a right line upon ye bank of ye same great River, not above _______ pole, at sixteen foot and half the pole In witness whereof I have to these presents sett my hand and the great seal of ye Colony. Given at James Citty ye tenth day of December in ye years of ye Reign of our Sovereign Lord James by ye Grace of God King of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland defender of ye faith &c. vist of England ye eighteenth, and of Scotland the four and fiftieth In ye year of our Lord God 1620. and _______ of this plantacon George Yardley [Ts -o-y? secr?] This patent is Certified [to?] the Treasurey me [Lawr?] Hulett

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At a Generall Court held at James City October 1690 Present The Right Honorable ffrancis Nicholson Esqr their [Majesties?] Lieut Governor and Councill The foregoing patent was admitted to Record at ye request of mr Richard ..... ; ye patent being for four hundred and fifty acres of Land in Charles Citty County granted to mr Samuel Jordan in anno 1620: which is Truely recorded Test [?] Beverley & [W?] [--ward?] [---?]

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Surnames: JOURDAN, JORDAN, BEVERLEY, NICHOLSON, HULETT, YARDLEY, DAIRES, ROLFE, MARSHALL, BARGRAVE, WAD, STED, WARDEEF, MARTIN, SANDYS, SANDIS, WOODLIEF, BALEY.
NOTE: Transcriber's comments are in brackets [ ]. For clarity, some contractions have been spelled out. Dotted lines (.....) indicate unreadable text.

Source: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia...

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Family comments

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jordan-224#_note-Boddie

The family of Samuel Jordan is an interpolation, beyond that of the Jamestown Muster of 1624/25 all that is known of him is that he patented land, originally known as Beggars Bush, but named per the Jamestown Muster as Jordans Jorney (sic), and that he had two daughters Mary and Margaret, There is no mention of sons.
There was another Jordan in the era name of Thomas, whether related or not, is not known.

All children, but Mary and Margaret should be removed . If someone with reliable secondary sources can prove that they are Samuel Jordan's children, feel free to cite the reference.

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Samuel Jordan is not listed by the Jamestowne Society as a Qualifying Ancestor.