SAMUEL JORDAN
     Samuel Jordan started from England in the 'Sea Adventurer,' which was wrecked on the "Vext Bermoothes" where he spent a year.  He landed in Jamestown in 1609 and was a member of the first Assembly of Virginia which met there in 1619 (History of Halifax County).
     The location at which Samuel Jordan lived originally was called 'Beggar's Bush', and after a massacre in 1622 "Master Samuel Jordan gathered together but a few of the stragglers about him there where he fortified and lived in despite of the enemy" (Smith).  In maintaining his settlement Jordan had the approval of Governor Francis Wyatt who wrote to the Council in London, April 1622, "that he thought fit to hold a few outlying places including the plantation of Mr. Samuel Jordan's; but to abandon others and concentrate the colonists at Jamestown."  By 1623, this plantation on the south side of the James River across from "Berkeley" was known as "Jordan's Journey."  Samuel Jordan represented Charles City at the first representative legislative assembly in the New World which convened at Jamestown, 30 July 1619. (Adventures of Purse and Person)

Family:  He had two sons in England, Thomas (b. 1600) and Robert.  He married second Cicely and had two daughters, Mary (b. 1621) and Margaret (b. 1623) by her.

Ancestors:  no information.

Descendants:  Through his son Thomas and 5 generations, Samuel's 3rd great granddaughter Caroline Matilda Jordan married Hugh Rose.  Their granddaughter Caroline Matilda Irvine married James Madison Hite, son of Isaac Hite, Jr. (Belle Grove)
     Samuel's son Thomas, born in England, came to Virginia in the ship Diana and settled in Isle of Wight County.  He lived at James City in 1623 where in 1624/25 he headed the list of the Governor's men at Pasbehaugh, indicating he was a soldier in the Governor's Guard.  In 1629, he is mentioned as one of the commissioners of Wariscoyack (Isle of Wight County by 1637).  He was a member of the House of Burgesses 1629-1632.  His land is of record in 1635: 900 acres Warrasquioake County. (Adventures of Purse and Person).  Thomas' son Thomas (1634/7 - 1699) lived in Nansamond County, Virginia, and was the first in a series of Jordans to adhere to the Quaker faith.

Descent:  Samuel Jordan m. Cicely
                 Thomas Jordan (1600-) m. Lucy Corker
                   Thomas Jordan (abt 1634-1699) m. Margaret Brashier (1642-1708)
                     Samuel Jordan (1678/79-1760) m. Elizabeth Fleming
                       Samuel Jordan (abt 1710-1789) m. Judith Scott
                         Caroline Matilda Jordan (-1809) m. Samuel Irvine (abt 1762-1813)
                           Caroline Matilda Irvine (1798-1877) m. James Madison Hite (1793-1860)
                             Ann Eliza Hite (1830-1912) m. Thomas Julian Skinker (1819-1900)

References (supplied by Gladys Morris Tate)

Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers, Vol. I, p. 731-736, 761-762; Vol. II, pp. 754-755; Vol. IV, pp. 2269-2271.

The Harrisons of Skimino - Aris Sonis Forisque, by Jesse Burton Harrison and Burton Norvell Harrison, 1910, p. 3,16-33.

History of Halifax, VA, by Wurt Johnson Carrington, 1975, p. 215.

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography,Vol. I, by Lyon G.Tyler, p. 269.

Adventures of Purse and Person, pp. 220-222.

William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. VI, p. 101.

Cabells and Their Kin, by Alexander Brown, pp. 128-129, 140-141, 157, 233-234.

Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 1950, pp. 8-9, 24-25, 27, 31-32, 176.

Genealogies of Virginia Families, Vol. IV, Tylers Quarterly, 1981, p. 624.

Original Lists of Persons of Quality, 1600-1700, by John Camden Hotten, 1874, p. 219.

Genesis of the United States, by Alexander Brown, p. 933.

The First Republic in America, p. 563.

Southern Quakers and Slavery, by Weeks, p. 26.

Samuel Jordan Will, in Genealogies of Virginia Families, Vol. IV, p. 624, Tylers Quarterly, 1981.