Came to America from England on the ship Diana and settled in Isle of Wight county, Virginia from which he was a member of the House of Burgess from 1629-1632
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Historical Notes on Isle of Wight County, Helen Haverty King, Isle of Wight Board of Supervisors, 1993, pp 5
During the first hundred years a grant of fifty acres was given for the importation of every immigrant. The names of the "Head-rights" were given in the grants. Thomas Jordan, 900 acres July 2, 1635 near the head of Warsq. RIver on west side of an old Indian Towne into the woods a mile and down to Cross Creek. For trans. 18 persons.
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Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-1624/5
Order of First Families of Virginia, 3rd Ed, 1987, p 379
Came to Virginia in the "Diana" and was living at James City, 1623/4 where in the muster of 1624/5, aged 24, he heads the list of the Governor Yardley's men at Pasbehaigh (James City), indicating that 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), which area he represented in the House of Burgesses, 1628, 1629, 1632 (February - March and September). On July 2, 1635, he received a patent for 900 acres in Warrasquioake County (Isle of Wight) near the head of Warrasquioake (Pagan) River, "beginning on the Westerly side of an old Indian Towne...being upon the North West side of the river..."
A patent issued to Thomas Davis, August 10, 1644, for 300 acres in Nansemond Co notes that it adjoined the "patent land of Mr. Thomas Jordan, dec'd"
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Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County Virginia, John Bennett Boddie, Chicago, Chicago Law Printing Company, 1938
. p 117, He represented Isle of Wight in the House of Burgesses in 1629 and 1632. He followed the Puritan trek to Nansemond as he patented land there soon after receiving his Isle of Wight grant.
. P 657, Land Grants 1628-1674, Thomas Jordan, 900 acres July 2, 1635, near the head of Warsq. River on west side of an old Indian Towne into the woods a mile and down to Cross Creek, for trans. of 18 persons.
. p 656, Land Grants 1628-1674, Benjmain Harrison, 200 acres, July 7, 1635, about 2 miles up Warresquioake Creek, extending NW which land is now in the tenure of Thomas Jordan, gent. due by deed of sale from John Davis of Kisiake, July 9, 1633, being part of a dividend granted Davis by order of Court June 5, 1633 as being heir to his uncle Walter Davis.
. p 703, 1629 and 1632, Thomas Jordan listed as county officer, Isle of Wight, VA
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Source: Blairs of Richmond, Virginia, Louisa Coleman Gordon Blair, William Byrd Press, Richmond, VA, 1933, p 102
Thomas Jordan, son of Samuel, was born in England 1600. came to Virginia in the ship Diana. Recorded 1623 as a soldier under Sir George Yeardley. Settled in Isle of Wight County; and Burgess 1629, 31, 21. In 1635 patentee of lands.
