Person:John Jordan (2)
John Jordan
b.Bef 1615
d.Bef 1 Sep 1650 Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (probably)
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  • H.  John JordanBef 1615 - Bef 1650
  • W.  Anne BishopBef 1620 - 1671/72
m. Bef 1640
  1. Mary JordanEst 1640 - 1683/84
  2. Elizabeth JordanCal 1642 -
  3. Hannah JordanEst 1648 - Bet 1696 & 1697
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Name[1][2] John Jordan
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1615 Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage Bef 1640 Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (probably)Based on estimated date of marriage.
to Anne Bishop
Death[1] Bef 1 Sep 1650 Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (probably)
Probate[1] 1 Sep 1650 Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesWill presented.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Jordan, John, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932)
    1:346-47.

    "Perhaps he was bro. of Mr. Thomas Jordan, who was Deputy for Guilford to the New Haven Colony Leg., May 1653, and May 1654; and Commissioner to Mass. Colony, June 1653, and June 1654; who returned to England, leaving here a dau. Elizabeth, who was m. 1 June 1669 to Andrew Leete, by his father, Dep.-Gov. William Leete.

    Mr. John was early at Guilford, where his will was presented 1 Sept. 1650, but we fail to find its terms recorded. His widow Anne m. (2) by 1654, Mr. Thomas Clark, who was bur. at Guilford, 10 Oct. 1668. Mrs. Anne Clark d. at Saybrook, 1 Jan. 1671/2, and adm'n on her estate was granted to Abraham Post.

    On 2 Dec. 1658, John Jordan, ae. above 12, testified concerning a dispute between his father [Thomas Clark] and John Hill. Anne, wife of Thomas Clark, and his dau.-in-law [stepdau.] Mary Jordan, also testified.

    In 1658 Winthrop mentioned Mary Jordan (ae. 17), dau. of Thomas Clark's wife of Guilford, but living at Jeremy Steele's for the present; and in 1659 he mentioned Mary Jordan (ae. 20) and Elizabeth Jordan (ae. 17) at Guilford."

  2. ↑ John Jordan, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:569.

    "John (Jordan), Guilford 1639, sign. the coven. of 1 June of that yr. by his name, Jurden, was there in 1668, perhaps d. next yr."

    This John died prior to 1 September 1650. His only son, also John, was living in 1684 at Saybrook.

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