Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Jordan was born in 1753, in Pasquotank, North Carolina, United States, his father, Joseph Jordan, was 29 and his mother, Jane Jones, was 16. He married Margaret Morris on 19 July 1778, in Weeksville, Pasquotank, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters.
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- Thomas Jordan, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Thomas Jordan in entry for Jehoshaphat Morris and Susanna Nixon Morris, "Indiana, Church Records, 1743-1966"
- Thomas Jordan, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
North Carolina is the 12th state.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
English, German, French (mainly Alsace and Haute-Savoie), Polish, Czech, and Slovenian; Spanish and Hungarian (Jordán): from the Christian personal name or nickname Jordan. This is taken from the name of the river Jordan (Hebrew Yarden, a derivative of yarad ‘to go down’, i.e. to the Dead Sea). At the time of the Crusades it was a common practice for crusaders and pilgrims to bring back flasks of water from the river in which John the Baptist had baptized people, including Christ himself, and to use it in the christening of their own children. As a result Jordan became quite a common personal name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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