Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-1624/5
Order of First Families of Virginia, 3rd Ed, 1987, p 380
Lived in Chuckatuck in Nansemond CO, VA where there were many Puritans and by 1660, a well developed Quaker movement. In that year Thomas is recorded as having "Received the truth", after which he "abode faith full in it; And in Constant unity with the faithfull friends thereof." The Jordans became the leading family of Quakers in Isle of Wight and Nansemond counties and their tribulations under the Virginia legislative enactment of 1662 for suppression of the sect are recounted in the Quaker records.
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Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County Virginia, John Bennett Boddie, Chicago Law Printing Co, Chicago, 1938, p 286
Governor RIchard Bennett of Nansemond Co, VA made his will March 15, 1674 and it was proved August 3, 1676 and a copy was probated in England. In his will he named "To Elizabet Outland of Chuckatuck Creek and Thomas Jordan of the same place to each of them two thousand lbs of tobacco."
. p 591, Thomas Jordan of Surry appts Thomas Moore of I. of W. his atty. in suit where he is assignee of Mr. Jno. Mooring as admr. of
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The History of Nansemond County, Virginia, Jos. B. Dunn, p 67
Members of the House of Burgesses from Nansemond Co., 1696, John Brasseur and Thomas Jordan
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Source: Blairs of Richmond, Virginia, Louisa Coleman Gordon Blair, William Byrd Press, Richmond, VA, 1933, p 102
Thomas Jordan (1634-1699), son of Thomas, lived at Chuckatuck, Nansemond County. Became a Quaker and was much persecuted; married Margaret Brasseur, daughter of Robert Brasseur, a Huguenot immigrant and Quaker.
