Gone To Georgia;
Jackson and Gwinnett Counties and Their Neighbors in the Western Migration
William C Stewart
publ: National Genealogical Society
1965
[pg 293]
207. JORDAN: Charles Jourdan was taxed on the Mulberry Fork (Burge's district)
in 1801, Radford was in the 1805 lottery list in Jackson County and in 1807, Samuel
was in Cochran's district on Mulberry in 1807. Elizabeth in this period married
Stephen Key. A Charles Jordan was in Wilkes County as early as 1785. James Jordan
was in Hamilton's District, Gwinnett County, in 1819 and in the 1820 census Samuel
and Charles, each aged 26-45, and James, aged 16-25, were enumerated. In Jasper
County, Ga., 1820, Fleming, Henry (2) and Benjamin were enumerated. (George R.
Gilmer's _Georgians,_ pps. 78, 90, 113, tells something of this family, mentioning
among others Col. Fleming Jordan of Jasper, who married Ann, daughter of Tom
Meriwether.) Pdrhaps a link to the family in Gwinnett County, James Jordan and
James Hamilton were joint securities for Ann, widow of John Twitty and their son,
William, in the administration of the elder Twitty's estate in Pendleton District, S.C.,
May 9, 1791 (Court Minutes 1790-1793, p. 7). The family mentioned by Gilmer had
Henrico, Albermarle and Louisa Counties, Va., antecedents and in Wilkes and
Oglethorpe Counties, Ga., were allied with the Harvies from Albemarle County, and
the Hills from North Carolina. Among others enumerated in 1820 in Georgia, were
Redin Jordin of Madison County; John C. Jordon of Walton County; James Jordon of
Hall County; Archibald and Asa Jordon of Habersham County; James, Jarret and Josiah
Jordan, and Edmond and Reubin Jordon of Oglethorpe County, in addition to many
others over the state. Tempy Jordan was married to Henry Wade in Franklin County,
Ga., Aug. 17, 1815.