Benjamin Jordan and Isabella Potter

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Husband Benjamin Jordan ¹

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            AKA: John Jordan,2 Thomas Jordan 3 4
           Born: Abt 1740
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         Father: [Father] Jordan (      -      )
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• Note: This may be the same person as : Benjamin Jordan.

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Wife Isabella Potter ^{4 5 6 7}

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           Born: Abt 1742
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         Father: Capt. John Potter (Abt 1705-1757) 5 6 8 9 10 11
         Mother: Martha [Unk] (      -1780) 12

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Children

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1 M John Potter Jordan ^{4 5 13}

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2 F Martha Jordan ¹

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         Spouse: Alexander Read, Jr. (1783-1843/1853) 1 14
           Marr: 1804 1

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3 F Mary Potter Jordan ^{1 16}

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            AKA: Mary Jerdon 15
           Born:  - Centre Co, PA
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           Died: 1830 or 1831 16
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         Spouse: Thomas Read (1785-1851/1861) 1 17
           Marr: 1810 - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 2

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4 F Margaret Jordan ¹

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         Spouse: James Reed (      -      ) 1 18

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5 M Thomas Jordan ¹³

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General Notes: Husband - Benjamin Jordan

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He [John Jordan] located in Lawrence township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, in pioneer days, and lived there until his death.

A Marylander by birth, he served in the Revolutionary War with the Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Militia, and came to Clearfield from Centre County in 1803.

In the Revolutionary period, the name Ensign Benjamin Jordan appears in a list of officers Third Battalion Northumberland County militia "as of March 13, 1776 (Pa. Archives 5 9 Ser. Vol. 8 p. 653) under Lieut. Col. James Murray" and he is listed also on the muster roll of Capt. Cookson Long's Company of Second Battalion Northumberland Co. militia under command of Col. James Potter December 3, 1776, and "now in actual service." (Pa. Arch. Ibid p. 646).

1 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 9.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 647.

3 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 26, 402.

4 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 310.

5 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 402.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 109.

7 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 10.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 6.

9 —, Book of Biographies of Leading Citizens of Berks County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1898), Pg 12.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 856.

11 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 303.

12 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 309.

13 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 23.

14 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 615, 647, 660.

15 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 416.

16 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 619, 647.

17 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 615, 619, 647.

18 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 84.