Mrs. Florence Ethel Mcmahon Croft. 3965
Born in Alabama.
Wife of George W. Croft.
Descendant of Lieut. John McMahon and of Col. Jeremiah Jordan.
Daughter of William Patton McMahon and Laura Sophia Chafee,- his wife.
Granddaughter of William McMahon and Rebecca Patten , his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of John McMahon and Deborah McMahon, his wife; Richard Patton and Mary Jordan, his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Jeremiah Jordan and Elizabeth Lewis, his wife.
John McMahon was lieutenant in Capt. Daniel Stephenson's company, Col. George Mathews' regiment, from Augusta county, Virginia.
Jeremiah Jordan, in 1774, was deputy to the Convention at Annapolis; in 1776 a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of Maryland, and colonel of a battalion for St. Mary's county. His son John was captain of artillery at the close of the war.