Alice (UNKNOWN) Jordan (bef. 1625 - aft. 1687)

Descendants

Died after May 1687 after age 62 in Isle of Wight, Virginia, British Colonial America

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Name

Name: Alice //

Couldn't find any valid last name at birth.

Burial

Burial:

Place: Second marriage and no issue

Residence

Residence:

Date: 03 MAY 1687

Place: Listed in the Will of her husband

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.celticgirafferesearch.com/jordan.2007.pdf Below is from "Bob's Genealogy Filing Cabinet II (2006)". An indepth research site from Robert W. Baird. Copyright © 2001-2005 Robert W. Baird, All Rights Reserved http://www.genfiles.com/index.html REF: Bob's Genealogical Filing Cabinet II from Robert Baird, containing extensive references not repeated here. In 1679 [Richard I Jordan-782] sold his lands in Isle of Wight County and sometime in 1680 or 1681 moved several miles west into Surry County, where his son Richard Jordan Jr. had settled several years earlier. On 30 March 1679 he and his wife Alice Jordan gave 100 acres to his son John Jordan, though how he acquired that land is unclear.[11] A few months later, on 10 May 1679, he received a patent renewing his old 250 acres and adding 113 acres of adjoining waste land.[12] Six months later, he sold that patent to Joseph Woory.[13] Woory later sued him over breach of contract, perhaps relating to this sale.[14] On 29 September 1679 he bought land in Surry County near his son Richard Jordan Jr., being separated from him by a single parcel.[15] In the same year, he apparently posted a bond in Isle of Wight for maintenance of his wife Alice.[16] Alice Jordan had released dower in the sale to Joseph Woory, and appears to have moved with Jordan in Surry County, so it’s not clear how to interpret this record. From 1681 through 1686, Richard Jordan Sr. appears in the Surry County tithables. He died sometime after June 1686, when he last appears as a tithable, and 3 May 1687 when Richard Jordan Jr. was granted administration “on the estate of his dec’d father Rich. Jordan.”[17] (Note that this was the first court meeting in more than two months, meaning he could have died somewhat earlier.) The inventory was recorded on 5 July 1687 by his son.[18] Richard Jordan’s wife Alice evidently outlived him by a matter of a few days or weeks.[19] At the same 3 May 1687 court, the nuncupative (oral) will of Alice Jordan was proved and Charles Savadge, the executor, relinquished his role. The court neither appointed a replacement, nor ordered an appraisal, a strong indication that the will disbursed no property.[20] In fact, the will itself was not recorded, suggesting that it perhaps dealt with burial wishes, personal clothing, or some other request unrelated to property.[21] There is one additional tantalizing record which may possibly bear on the immigration of Richard Jordan. On 30 May 1679 a patent was issued to Nicholas Sessums, an adjoining landowner, for transportation of 11 persons, including “Rich. Jordane & wife” and a second “Richd. Jorden.”[22] This may refer to the original importation and, if so, suggests that Richard Jordan and his wife arrived in Virginia with his son already born. The importer would not have been Nicholas Sessums of course; he clearly had purchased the headrights from someone else, as he did for several other patents.[23] He may, in fact, have purchased the rights from Richard Jordan Sr. himself. The delay of perhaps 40 years in the use of the rights is not necessarily significant, for Sessums claimed his own headright more than 45 years after his arrival.[24] Although there were probably one or more daughters, only two sons can be identified, Richard Jordan II and John Jordan.

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   Notes for Alice: It is unknown if this was a first or second wife of Richard Jordan (I).

   Children of Richard Jordan and Alice are: + 2 i. Richard (II)2 Jordan, born Bet. 1640 - 1644 in Isle of Wight Co., VA.; died Bef. 03 Oct 1699 in Surry Co., VA.. + 3 ii. John (I) Jordan, born Abt. 1658 in Isle of Wight Co., VA.; died Bef. Oct 1687 in Isle of Wight Co., VA..