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Notes for Samuel Jr. JORDAN

Samuel served in the American Revolution as Colonel of Buckingham Co., VA Militia.

Samuel Jordan, of Union Hill, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Fleming0 Jordan was Justice of the Court of Albemarle Co., Va., 1746-47. Col. James Jordan (5) settled in the Seven Islands on the south side of the James River in the present Co. of Buckingham, where he owned a considerable body of land. He also owned 5250 on Jordan Creek in Halifax Co., and 4699 A. in Albemarle. He was J. of the P. for Albermarle Co. 1746-'65; a Capt. in 1753; Sheriff in 1753-55 Presiding Justice of The Peace in the new county of Buckingham, 1761; was Burgess from Buckinggham Co., 1765-66, 67, 68, 69 (Col. VA Reg., pp. 171, 1174,176), and although an old man at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, he served as Colonel of the Militia and as member of the County Committee of Safety. After June 1776, he was State Commissioner of the foundry for casting cannon in Buckingham County. In "Bristol Parish" by Slaughter, it is said: "The law required that the most able and discreet persons in the Parish should be chosen for Vestrymen, and we find that the burgesses and magistrates, and men prominent in social and civil affairs were Vestryment during the whole Colonia period.

"in 1776 we can err in the presumption that the representatives of the Church and of the State, during the interval indicaed abouve, were the same. The representative names at that time were: Wood, Jordan, Poythress, Wynne, Hatcher, Cocke, Hamlin, Eppes, Bolling, Bland, Jones, Randolph, Kennon, Batt, Bath, Gilliam, Walker and Mumford". (By Mrs. R. H. Carter, State Historian, Birmingham, Ala., in Birmingham News, Oct. 20, 1906; and So. Col. Dames ofGA No. 362 (Mrs. James Silas Wright)

The Jordans removed from Amherst Co., VA about 1784, and settled on the Broad River in Wilkes Co., GA.

Genl. Mathews had served in FA. during the War. he made preparations soon after for removing to a tract of land then and yet known as the Goosepond, a disputed title to which he had purchased for a very small consideration. he was well known in Augusta and Albemarle Cos. in VA. Influenced by his judgement, Francis Meriwether, Benjamin Taliaferfro, and one or two others visited Georgia in 1784. They went to the neighborhood of the Goosepond, were pleased with the land and and purhcased. They and many of their friends and relations - the Harvies, Meriwethers, Taliaferros, Gilmers, Mathewses, Barnetts, Crawfords, Johnsons, Jordan, McGehees, Markses, Freemans, & c. & c. removed to Ga with their familes immediately afterwards. They form a society of the greatest intimacy - mutual wants making the surest foundation for the interchange of mutual kindness". (Georgians", by Gov. Geo. R. Gilmer.
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