Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

John Jordan
MSA SC 3520-16752

Sources:

Archival Sources:

Chancery Court, Chancery Papers, Greer vs. Bond, et al., 1808, case no. 2141, MdHR 17898-2141 [MSA S512-2211, 1/36/2/37].

Charles County Land Office, Certificates, Patented, Charles, Jordans Addition, Patented Certificate no. 606 [MSA S1195-616, 1/25/3/24].

Charles County Register of Wills, Inventories, Inventory of John Jordan, 1789, Liber AL 10, p. 75 [MSA C665-10, 1/8/10/11].

Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War, NARA M881, from Fold3.com.

Maryland State Papers, Red Books, List of Regular Officers, c. December 1776, vol. 12, p. 66 [MSA S989-17, 1/6/4/5].

Maryland State Papers, Revolutionary Papers, Account of money paid the officers of the First Maryland Regiment, 23 March 1779, box no. 3, no. 7/1 [MSA S997-3-75, 1/7/3/9].

Maryland State Papers, Series A, Christopher Richmond to John White, 1 June 1787 [sic, probably 1789 or later, since it references Jordan's 1788 death], MdHR 6636-63-24 [MSA S1004-87-20561, 1/7/3/65].

Pension of Sarah Easton, widow of John Jordan, National Archives and Records Administration, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, NARA M804, W. 24098, from Fold3.com.

Return of the Maryland troops, 27 September 1776, from Fold3.com.

Published Sources:

DeKrey, Gary S. "John Jordan." In Richard A. Harrison, ed., Princetonians 1776-1783: A Biographical Dictionary. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981, 191-192.

Laws of Maryland, 1835. Archives of Maryland Online, vol. 214.

Lee, Jean B. The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.

Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution, Archives of Maryland Online, vol. 18.

Steuart, Reiman. The Maryland Line. The Society of the Cincinnati, 1971.

Steuben, Frederick. Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, Part I. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1792.

Tacyn, Mark Andrew. “’To the End:’ The First Maryland Regiment and the American Revolution.” PhD diss., University of Maryland College Park, 1999.

Newspapers:

Pennsylvania Journal (Philadelphia), 13 October 1773.

Web Sources:

Sarah Harrison Easton, FindAGrave.

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