John Morton Jordan (d. 7/23/1771)
MSA SC 3520-15176

Sources:

Archival sources -

Archives of Maryland Volume 14 - Correspondence of Governor Horatio Sharpe, 1761-1771

Archives of Maryland Volume 32 - Proceedings of the Council of Maryland April 5, 1761-September 16, 1770

Archives of Maryland Volume 63 - Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, June 1771-July 1773

1773 Laws of Maryland Chapter 11 - "An Act to impower William Bernard and Thomas Jett or either of them to Sell and Convey the Lands therein mentioned agreeable to the directions of the last Will and Testament of John Morton Jordan Esquire deceased."

Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Ridout Papers) Letter from John Morton Jordan to Gov. Horatio Sharpe, 20 August 1768, Box 2 Folder 2, MSA SC 371-2-2.

Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Ridout Papers) Letter from Gov. Horatio Sharpe to Joshua Sharpe in which the Governor expresses his displeasure at John Morton Jordan's appointment as Agent and Receiver General, 10 June 1769, Box 1 Folder 20, MSA SC 373-1-20.

Maryland State Archives PROVINCIAL COURT (Land Records) Commission and bond of John Morton Jordan, 1769, Volume DD 4 pp. 628-31 [MSA SM 22-28, SR 2319] (Available on the Archives of Maryland Online as volume 725.)

Maryland State Archives LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) John Morton Jordan, "Conegocheige Manor," 1769, Volume BC & GS 38 page 72-73 [MSA S11-139, 1/23/4/3]

Maryland State Archives LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) John Morton Jordan, "Number One," 1769, Volume BC & GS 33 page 352-53 [MSA S11-134, 1/23/3/44]

Maryland State Archives LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) John Morton Jordan, "Number Two," 1769, Volume BC & GS 33 page 353-55 [MSA S11-134, 1/23/3/44]

Maryland State Archives LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) John Morton Jordan, "Number Three," 1769, Volume BC & GS 33 page 356-57 [MSA S11-134, 1/23/3/44]

Maryland State Archives LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) John Morton Jordan, "Number Four," 1769, Volume BC & GS 33 page 357-58 [MSA S11-134, 1/23/3/44]

Maryland State Archives LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) John Morton Jordan, "Number Five," 1769, Volume BC & GS 33 page 359-60 [MSA S11-134, 1/23/3/44]

Maryland State Archives LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) John Morton Jordan, "Number Six," 1769, Volume BC & GS 33 page 360-62 [MSA S11-134, 1/23/3/44]

Maryland State Archives LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) John Morton Jordan, "Number Seven," 1769, Volume BC & GS 33 page 362-64 [MSA S11-134, 1/23/3/44]

Maryland State Archives LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) John Morton Jordan, "Number Eight," 1769, Volume BC & GS 33 page 364-65 [MSA S11-134, 1/23/3/44]

Maryland State Archives PREROGATIVE COURT (Accounts) John Morton Jordan, 1773, Volume 68 pp. 276-83 [MSA S531-68, 1/11/4/28] (Available online from the Maryland State Archives as TE1-61)

Maryland State Archives PREROGATIVE COURT (Inventories) John Morton Jordan, 1773, Volume 114 pp. 139-169 [MSA S534-115, 1/12/2/13] (Available online from the Maryland State Archives as TE1-41)
Abstract of Jordan's inventory from Probing the Past project

Maryland State Archives PREROGATIVE COURT (Testamentary Papers) John Morton Jordan, 1773, Box 82 Folder 48, MdHR 1331-82-48 [MSA S541-91, 1/13/1/43]

Maryland State Archives PREROGATIVE COURT (Wills) John Morton Jordan, 1771, Volume 38 pp. 374-78 [MSA S538-54, 1/11/2/3] (Available online from the Maryland State Archives as TE1-8)

Maryland State Archives PREROGATIVE COURT (Wills, Original) John Morton Jordan, 1771, Box J Folder 41, MdHR 1330-12-41 [MSA S540-12, 1/12/3/16]

Maryland State Archives CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers) Dorothy Jordan and John Nesbitt Jordan vs. Reuben Merriweather concerning the estate of John Morton Jordon, 1791, Case 3497, MdHR 17,898-3497-1/4 [MSA S512-4-3604, 1/36/3/52]
    Maryland Gazette or, the Baltimore General Advertiser, 12 December 1783 [MSA SC 1925-1-54, B5/5/4/2]

Newspaper/journal articles -

Virginia Gazette, 22 April 1757.

Virginia Gazette, 28 March 1766.

Virginia Gazette, 2 May 1766.

Maryland Gazette, 30 November 1769.

Virginia Gazette, 28 December 1769.

Obituary. Maryland Gazette, 26 September 1771.

Maryland Gazette, 24 October 1771.

Maryland Gazette, 28 May 1772.

James Haw, "The Patronage Follies: Bennet Allen, John Morton Jordan, and the Fall of Horatio Sharpe," Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (1976), 134-150.

Books -

Robert W. Barnes, British Roots of Maryland Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1999), 275.

Peter Wilson Coldham, American Migrations 1765-1799 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 516.

Genealogies of Virginia Families, Vol. IV (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981), 436-41.

Donnell M. Owings, His Lordship's Patronage: Offices of Profit in Colonial Maryland (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1953), 77 and 168. (Available on the Archives of Maryland Online as volume 662.)

Donnel M. Owings, Source References to the Civil List in His Lordship's Patronage (n.pl., n.pub., n.d.), 83. (Available on the Archives of Maryland Online as volume 663.)

Clayton Torrence, comp., Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632-1800 (Richmond: The William Byrd Press, Inc., 1931), 239.

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