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Samuel Jordan (1578-1623) was an early settler and Ancient Planter of colonial Jamestown, and one of the first colonial legislators〔"Samuel Jordan represented Charles City at the first representative legislative assembly in the new world which convened at Jamestown, 30 July 1619." ''Adventurers of Purse and Person'', 4th ed., ed. John Frederick Dorman, v. 2, p363〕 Jordan traveled to Virginia in 1610, according to his 1620 patent: On the tract of 388 acres mentioned in the patent ("...towards land of Temperance Baley, W. upon Capt. Woodlief..."), Samuel Jordan established a plantation known as "Jordan's Journey" (also known as "Beggar's Bush").〔''Virginia: the First Seventeen Years'', Charles E. Hatch Jr, U. of VA Press, 1957, p67〕 In 1622 Jordan acquired an additional on the north side of the James River by assignment (i.e. by purchase) from Mrs Mary Tue, sister and executrix of Lieutenant Richard Crouch.〔Nugent, p.49〕 ==Wife and Children== Samuel Jordan was born 1578 in Wilshire, England, and died 1623 in Charles City, Virginia. He married Frances Baker in 1595 in England. She was born in 1580 in England, and with Samuel had four children, Anne Maria (1596-1630), Robert (1598-1622), Thomas (1600-1644), and Samuel (1608-unknown). Frances died in 1608 in England, and in 1610 Samuel emigrated to America aboard the Swan with his sons.〔http://perquimans.lostsoulsgenealogy.com/family/samueljordan.htm〕 Robert was killed at the (massacre of 1622 ),〔http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/a/Larry-R-Stanley/GENE7-0001.html〕 and Thomas later represented Warrasquoke in the House of Burgesses.〔http://www.ronulrich.com/rfuged/nti02549.htm〕〔http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sassytazzy/family/surnames/jordan/docs/jordanfambyjluther1.html〕 Samuel Jordan married his second wife Cecily in 1618 in Virginia. Cecily in the patent quoted above is described as "an ancient planter...of nine years continuance", and is shown in the 1625 census〔http://www.virtualjamestown.org/Muster/muster24.html〕 as age 24, having come to Virginia on the ''Swan'' in August 1610,〔Probably an error for 1611; see "Concerning George Yeardley and Temperance Flowerdew", James P. C. Southall, ''The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography'', Vol. 55, No. 3.〕 at which time she would have been ten or eleven years old. It appears that at the time of her marriage to Samuel Jordan (sometime before 1620, as shown by the wording of the patent quoted above), Cecily was a widow with a small daughter named Temperance Baley. There is no direct evidence of this first marriage, but Temperance Baley is mentioned as an adjoining landholder in Samuel Jordan's 1620 patent, and she appears in the census of 1625〔 aged seven, living at Jordans Journey in the Muster of Mr William Ferrar and Mrs Jordan. John F. Dorman concludes that she was probably a daughter of Cecily Jordan from a first marriage to a Baley.〔''Adventurers of Purse and Person'', Vol. 1, p.120)〕 In 1622, the local Indian tribes organized a surprise attack on the English colonists. During what became known as the Indian Massacre of 1622, many men, women, and children were killed in a coordinated series of attacks led by Chief Opechancanough of the Powhatan Confederacy. After the attack, most of the outlying settlements were abandoned for the time being, and the inhabitants evacuated to safer locations. A limited number were kept as inhabited settlements, including "A Plantacione of Mr Samuell Jourdes" (presumably Jordan's Journey), Kecoughtan, Newport News, Southampton Hundred, Flowerdew Hundred, Shirley Hundred.〔Kingsbury, ''Records of the Virginia Company of London'', Vol. 3, p612〕 At the time of the Feb 1623/4 census, 42 people were living at Jordan's Journey.〔List of the Living and Dead in Virginia, 1623, Colonial Records of Virginia, State Senate Doct., Extra, p. 41〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samuel Jordan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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