Jeremiah Jordan Sr (1663 - abt. 1729)

Born 1663 in Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Deborah (Bickford) Jordan — married 10 Mar 1686 in New Castle, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Descendants

Died about 1729 at about age 66 in York, York, Maine

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Biography

JEREMIAH JORDAN (ROBERT, EDWARD, THOMAS) (Jordan Memorial, 75, 395, 397) was born Abt. 1663, Spurwink, & died Abt. 1729. He married DEBORAH BICKFORD March 10, 1684/85, New Castle, NH (Family Jordan, edited by John Eldridge Frost & Joseph Crook Anderson, II, Marriage Returns of York County, ME Prior to 1892, (Picton Press, Camden ME 04843-1111), p. 1, date give as 10 March 1686/87; groom cited as "Jeremiah Gordan" & bride as "Deborah Bickford;" minister given as "Mr. Burroughs, minister."^[1]), d/o THOMAS BICKFORD & JOANNA LIBBY. She died Bef. 1725 (Family Jordan). Jeremiah born on the "Old Plantation" originally settled by George Cleaves, 1860. This land was bequeathed to him by his father. Jordan Memorial (pp. 75, 397) indicates he was married abt 1688.

"On the sudden outbreak of hostilities with the Indians, August 10, 1703, Jeremiah & his wife were made captives by a hostile band, & on the same day his brother, Dominicus, who lived on the east side of the Spurwink River, was killed in his own house, & his family carried away into captivity. The children of Jeremiah being quite young were sent, after the capture of their parents, to New Castle, & probably remained in the care of friends at that place until the release of their mother. After remaining 3 years a prisoner in Canada, she was allowed to return, making her residence at New Castle, which was probably her native place.

"Jeremiah was kept a captive, Canada a number of years, part time with the Indians, afterwards with the French. He was then carried to France, where he remained some years, being finally released, & returning, first to Spurwink, then to New Castle. Owing to the exposure & hardships through which he had passed, he was not recognized by any of his friends, who all supposed he had been dead many years, & who were very slow to believe that he was Jeremiah Jordan, until he showed the scars upon his breast caused by fire or water when he was quite young, & remembered by some of the family. This established his identity, & he was from that time called "French Jeremy," to distinguish him from others of the same name. He probably made New Castle his home, perhaps living after the death of his wife with his son Jeremiah, Jr., & accompanying the latter, his removal to Falmouth, 1725. His son administered upon his estate, 1729." [Jordan Memorial, pp. 397-398]

Sources

1. ↑ York County, Maine Probate Records, No. 1, 1687-1707, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89JS-L9Z8-F  : 6 April 2021), FHL microfilm 007600380, image 112.

• Brown-Duncan & Assoc Families, Kittery Maine 1981
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• Jordan Memorial Pages 394 - 398:
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• Jeremiah Jordan in the North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Source Citation: Book title, Brown - Duncan and associated families : Kittery, Maine : Piscataqua and New Castle, New Hampshire. [Spouse: Deborah Bickford; Child: Deborah Jordan]
• FamilySearch.org ; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q21S-Q2L8
• Find A Grave.com ; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105478875