Southside Virginia Families, Vol I, John Bennett Boddie, Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999, p 291-293
"George Jordan is listed as one of the headrights of Captain Henry Browne, esq., "one of the Councell of State", who received, July 14, 1637, 2250 acres in James City County (soon to become Surry), on the south side of the James River. (C.P. 67). Likewise found in the list of Captain Henry Browne's headrights is the name of Alice Mills, perhaps wrongly transcribed for Alice Miles (or Myles), no doubt the person who later became the first wife of George Jordan. These headrights may have arrived in the Colony long before the patentee had entered claim for land thereby due. This explains the apparent lapse of two years between Lt. Col. George Jordan's date of arrival and the year when he is listed as a headright of Captain Henry Browne. That he ws the same George Jordan is indicated by the association between the Jordan and Browne families for many years.
Colonel George Jordan was one of Surry's most prominent citizens. He was in the House of Burgesses at intervals for nearly thirty years, serving in the Sessions of 1646-47, 1658-59, 1674-76. He was a Justice in Surry in 1652 and afterwards, and was Attorney General for Virginia from 1676 to his death in 1678.
In 1673 the Surry Court granted him a certificate showing his right to have land in Surry for the transportation of 38 persons, among whom was Fortune Flood, his sister, who married Colonel John Flood; Arthur Jordan, his brother, and Charles and William Jordan.
Colonel Jordan lived near Four Mile Tree. Colonel Jordan desired to be buried in Major Browne's orchard near his wife and children. Col. Jordan's will, dated February 25, 1677-78, with a codicil dated May 8, 1678, and proved in Surry November 5, 1678. No descendant of his survived, his will provides for relatives and friends.
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Hening's Statutes of Large, Vol I, p 322
Grand Assembly, James Cittie, October 5, 1646, Mr. George Jordayne listed as a Burgess from James Citty county
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William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol VIII, 1899-1900, p 161-62
Census of Tithables in Surry County in the Year 1668. The tithables consisted on all male natives of the country and imported free persons above 16; and all male white servants, and all female white servants who worked in the ground and all male and female negro and Indian servants, whether above or under sixteen. The population was generally estimated as four times the tithables.
Lists Lt. Coll George Jordan as a Commissioner of the Peace, December 20, 1668
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Early Families Along the James River, Vol II, Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Publishing CO, 2002, p 48, Absgtracts of land patents Charles City Co, VA, Lt. Col. Geo. Jordan, 690 acres. Up. part of Surry Co. at the mouth of Reedy Marsh, neare an Indian Path, along the Cyprus Sw., at a br. of the main Black Water, to Mr. Arthur Jordan, neere head of the Little Marsh, to the Middle Marsh, along the White Marsh. Trans of 14 pers: Wm. Jordan, Ar. (?) Jordan, Fortune Flood, Geo. Jordan and others. No date other on page were June 1676.
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Surry Co, VA, Records, Book II, 1671-1684, p 322, 7 9ber 1682, Estate of Lt. Coll. Geo. Jordan. (Payments?) Dr. to:
lists about 60 names, among them are Mr. Arthur Jordan, Wm. Jordan Children
