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References
- ↑ Ancestry.com - OneWorldTree (discontinued in 2013): - extremely unreliable source.
Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
- ↑ Meador, Victor P. (Victor Paul), and Bernal M. Meador. Our Meador families in colonial America: as found in the records of Isle of Wight, Lancaster, (old) Rappahannock, Richmond, Essex and Caroline Counties, Virginia. (Independence, Missouri: V.P. Meador, 1983)
p.98.
William Terrell and Rachel (Meador) Jordan appeared in Court in Caroline County, Virginia in 1732 charged with adultery. The charges were dropped. A child, Joannah Jourdanne, was named in Court Records.
Source: Caroline County, Virginia, Court Order Book Vol 1., p. 18, 12 Oct 1732
- ↑ Davis, Virginia Lee Hutcheson. Tidewater Virginia families: a social history : the families of Bell, Binford, Bonner, Butler, Campbell, Cheadle, Chiles, Clements, Cotton, Dejarnatt, Dumas, Ellyson, Fishback, Fleming, Hamlin, Hampton, Harnison, Harris, Haynie, Hurt, Hutcheson, Lee, Mosby, Mundy, Nelson, Peatross, Pettyjohn, Ruffin, Short, Spencer, ... (Urbanna, Virginia: V.L.H. Davis, c1989).
William Terrell and Rachel Jordan were brought before the Court in Caroline County, Virginia for adultery in 1792. Punishment for a woman who bore an illegitimate child was severe unless the father acknowledged the child and agreed to support it. William promised to support Rachel's child. Later, William deeded land to Jeremiah Jordan.
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 Several Ancestry Trees name both Rachel Jordan and Rachel Meador, among others, as the wife of William Terrell, giving Rachel Jordan a birth date of 1711. The same children are often attributed to both women, at the same time. Almost none give sources. The one source cited by one person (6 Oct 2014), Davis's Tidewater Virginia Families, makes it clear that marriage was not involved, but gives no information regarding Rachel. If documentation is provided showing that the Rachel Jordan who was the mother of one or more children by William Terrell was born in 1711, then she is more likely to have been a daughter of Rachel Meador Jordan, rather than Rachel Meador.
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