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Notes for Thomas Jordan, Jr.
Thomas Jordan, Jr. was born in 1634/35 in Nansemond County, Virginia. He married Margaret Brasseur, daughter of Robert Brasseur. Thomas became a Quaker and in 1660, and from 1664 onward was several times imprisoned and fined.
"Received the truth after which he abode full faith in it".
(Adventurers of Purse and Person, 1987, page 380.)
Thomas owned 1,200 acres in Nansemond County (patented 12 April 1653), and died in 1699. (The Brasseur's were a Huguenot family.)
Quoted from Adventurers of Purse and Person, 1987, page 380.... "The Jordans became the leading family of Quakers in the Isle of Wight and Nansemond Counties and their tribulations under the Virginia legislative enactment of 1662 for suppression of the Sect are well recounted in the Quaker records".
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