Person:Nathaniel Jordan (3)

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Colonel Nathaniel Jordan
m. 1715
  1. Colonel Nathaniel Jordan1718 - 1795
m. 2 Aug 1740
  1. Capt. Israel Jordan1745 - 1792
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Name Colonel Nathaniel Jordan
Gender Male
Birth? 24 Dec 1718 Spurwink, Cumberland, Maine
Marriage 2 Aug 1740 Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Maineto Hannah Woodbury
Death? 16 Aug 1795 Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine

BIRTH: Spurwink, now Cape Elizabeth.

BIOGRAPHY: He was Lieut. Col. of the militia raised in Cumberland Co. and was on the pay roll as field and staff officer, 1779. Found [while visiting David Library of the American Revolution, Washington Crossing, PA], in the DAR Patriot Index on 8 Oct 2008, as Nathaniel Jordan, Sr., b. 24 Dec 1718, MA, d. aft. 1779, MA, m. Hannah Woodbury, LCol MA. Note: Maine was then part of MA. The library also had a card on him indicating date of enlistment as 22 Jul 1780 for a 6 month term and also listed the 11th Massachusetts Regiment, Benjamin Tupper, Colonel. He is also listed in “Soldiers, Sailors and Patriots of the Revolutionary War, Maine”, Pub. by SAR, Louisville, KY, p. 423. A detailed listing of his various appointments in the Revolutionary War were found and printed off of CD147 Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors. Disk 1, Volume VIII, Surnames from HME to JYP, Genealogy.com He served in the Penobscot Expedition (July-August 1779) according to info from The David Library, Oct 2008 Listed in the SAR Patriot Graves Search as JORDAN, Nathaniel, Military rank: Soldier in State of: ME, bu. Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, ME, b. 1718, d. Citation: 1795 Revolutionary War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993. Also SAR Revolutionary War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998, Quality: SAR appl, Spouse Woodbury, Hannah.

Jordan_Mem._I.D.: 803

Family_Jordan_No.: 48

References
  1.  
    p. 179.

    Press of David Clapp & Son, Boston, 1882 - A reprinting by the New England History Press, 1982

    Book

    The Jordan Memorial - Family Records of the Rev. Robert Jordan

    Editor: Compiled by Tristram Frost Jordan

  2.  
    p. 27.

    Penobscot Press, 2001, ISBN 0-89725-441-4

    Book

    The Family Jordan

    Editor: Roland Gene Jordan, compiled by Adelbert Jean “Andy” Annonson

  3.  
    Volume III: M-R, p. 970.

    A B C CLIO

    Book

    The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War

    Editor: James Arnold & Roberta Wiener

  4.  
    p. 144 & 179.

    Press of David Clapp & Son, Boston, 1882 - A reprinting by the New England History Press, 1982

    Book

    The Jordan Memorial - Family Records of the Rev. Robert Jordan

    Editor: Compiled by Tristram Frost Jordan

  5.  
    p. 16 & 27.

    Penobscot Press, 2001, ISBN 0-89725-441-4

    Book

    The Family Jordan

    Editor: Roland Gene Jordan, compiled by Adelbert Jean “Andy” Annonson