Thomas Jordan and Rachel Steele

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Husband Thomas Jordan ¹

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           Died:  - York Co, PA
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       Marriage: 

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Wife Rachel Steele ¹

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         Father: [Father] Steele (      -      )
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M Benjamin Jordan ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 19 Jul 1779 - Northumberland Co, PA 1
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           Died: 24 May 1861 - Walnut Hill, Dauphin Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Paxtang Church

         Spouse: Mary Crouch (1791-1846) 1 2 3
           Marr: 29 Oct 1811 1

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Jordan

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He was a descendant of Thomas Jordan, the first of the family, an emigrant from Scotland, coming to America prior to 1700, who settled in Cecil County, Maryland. He and his family were rigid Presbyterians, and attached themselves to Christianna Church, located just over the line in the State of Delaware. In the yard of that church the remains of four generations of the Jordan family rest.
He was born near this old church prior to 1752, from whence he removed to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, prior to the war of the Revolution. When his son was only a few weeks old the family were driven from their home by the marauding Indians, when they located in York County, where he later died.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 510.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 145.

3 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 315.