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 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 MARYLAND STATE PAPERS (Black Books) Letter from Lord Baltimore to Gov. Horatio Sharpe ordering the issue of a patent to John Morton Jordan for "Connogocheague Manor", 15 July 1768, Volume 11 Item 76 [MSA S987-19, 1/6/3/33] (Available online from the Maryland State Archives as TE1-167.)
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 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 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 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.
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.
Books -
Robert W. Barnes, British Roots of Maryland Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1999), 275.
Genealogies of Virginia Families, Vol. IV (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981), 436-41.
Clayton Torrence, comp., Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632-1800 (Richmond: The William Byrd Press, Inc., 1931), 239.
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