GRUMBLES FROM THE PAST
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Notes for Thomas Jordan, Sr.
Thomas Jordan was born about 1600 in England. He arrived in Jamestowne, Virginia on the ship Diana in 1623/24. He is named in the census of 1623 as a soldier under Sir George Yeardley. He was a soldier in the Governor's Guard at James City in 1624, and represented the Warrasquoake (Isle of Wight) County in the Virginia House of Burgess in 1628, 1629, 1632. Thomas received a Patent for 900 acres on 2 July 1635, " neare the head of the Warrasquioake River, begining on the Westerly side of an old Indian Towne, at a oake mark'd with three notches, being upon the North west side of the river running West North west into the woods a mile' and soe runing downe the river, to a Crosse Creek, a small oake being there, marked with twoe notches."
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