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- Robert Jordan1611/12 - 1679
Facts and Events
| Name |
Robert Jordan |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[3] |
12 Jan 1611/12 |
Worcester, Worcestershire, England |
| Occupation[1] |
From 1641 |
Cumberland, Maine, United Statesclergyman |
| Marriage |
Jan 1643 |
Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Maine, United StatesRichmond's Island
to Sarah Winter |
| Will[2] |
28 Jan 1678/79 |
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States |
| Death[2] |
1679 |
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States |
| Probate[2] |
1 Jul 1679 |
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References
- ↑ Jordan, Tristram Frost. The Jordan memorial family records of the Rev. Robert Jordan 1612-1676 and his descendants in America. (1882)
pp. 70-71.
'As early as 1641, the Rev. Robert Jordan, a clergyman of the Church of England, was established at Richmond's Island ... The precise time of his coming over is not known, nor the place of his nativity in England, but it is probable he came in 1639, from Dorsetshire or Devonshire, the hive from which so many of our settlers came, and where the Jordan name is quite common.'
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jordan, Tristram Frost. The Jordan memorial family records of the Rev. Robert Jordan 1612-1676 and his descendants in America. (1882)
p. 75.
'Rev. Robert Jordan ... ended his active and eventful life at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1679, in the 68th year of his age. His will was made at Great Island, in Piscataqua River, Jan. 28, and proved July 1, 1679.'
- ↑ Worcester St Martin-in-the-Cornmarket, in Worcestershire, England. Worcestershire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
image 58.
This entry at the end of 1611:
Robert the sonne of Edward Jordan was bapt. xijo January
- Whitmore, W.H. Rev. Robert Jordan, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
13(1859):222.
In an article showing a marriage between Robert Fitspen/Phippen and Cicely Jordan in Dorset:
'It therefore appears somewhat more than probable that Joseph Phippen, who was somewhat conspicuous in the early days of Falmouth, now Portland, was induced to leave Massachusetts proper, and settle there, from advantages held out by the Rev. Robt. Jordan, undoubtedly his relative.'
The article doesn't provide evidence of the birth of a Robert Jordan in Dorset around 1611, as the people it includes lived earlier than that, but it does show the existence of the name there.
- Queries, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
132(1978):326.
'JORDAN--Does anyone have authenticated English ancestry of Rev. Robert Jordan, b. 1611 at Worcester, Worc.; s. of Edward, bookseller, and Alice, the dau. of Foulke Broughton, Gentleman, Worc. (?)'
This is the only reference I could find in online journals at AmericanAncestors.org that suggests that Rev. Robert Jordan of Maine was the Robert Jordan baptized in Worcester in 1611/12. The year matches his age at death, but speculation dating back to the 1850's (at least) is that he came from Dorset or Devon (see The Jordan Memorial and NEHGR 13:221-22, both cited here).
There appears to have been no response to this query.
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