WILL OF LT.-COL George Jordan Attorney-General of Virginia in 1670 Lt. CuI. Geo. Jordan's, will, dated May 28th, 1671, war proved in Surry County Court, 9 br., 1678 by the oaths of William Thompson and Lt. Col. William Browne Thomas Jordan qualified as administrator, C. T. A. I recommend my soule to Almighty God, who gave it, beseeching him for the mediation sake of the precious blood of Jesus Christ. the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of the world, that he will receive me into the arms of his mercy, and pardoning my manyfold sins, that he will grant me a joyful resurrection and number me amongst his redeemed, and my body to be buried by my wife and children in Major Browne his orchard, & that at my buriall theire may be noe dunkenness nor gunns, but a good and decent funerall to entertain my friends and neighbours, and as for what worldly goods it hath pleased God to trust me with., I dispose of. &c. All debts i owe in Va., great & small, to be paid first. I give unto my two God-daughters, Col. Thomas Swan's Children, a piece of plate worth three pounds stere. I give to Sarah Sowerby, George Norwood & George Briggs, alsoe God-Children, each a silver soon, worth ten shillings. And it is my will that the 15th day of every October there shall be a sermon of mortality preached at my house, it being ye day that my daughter, Fortune Hunt, dyed, & that all the neighborhood have notice of it, that they may come, leaving it to the discretion of my exec. what entertainment he will give & some times when that day shall fall upon Sunday, I desire that the Holy Communion may be given. And whosoever in time to come shall enjoy my land in this Co., although it be a thousand generations hence, he in possession shall perform this sermon & prayer; Wherein if he fayle, the land shall fall to the informer; that shall give notice to any Court of justice of his failing, & I doe further give unto five such poore people as the vestry shall find most to need it, one barrell of corne in the yeare for seaven years after my decease; & to the Church a baptisme bason of silver worth three pounds sterling. After paymentof my debts as above, the rest of my personall estate to be divided into equal parts, & out of one halfe I give unto my Cosse Edwar Bayl, six hundred pounds of tob & the rest of that said halfe shalt he equallydivided into seaven parts & shall he paid to these seaven persons following: Chr. Foster Walter Flood, George Jordan, James Jordan, River Jordan, Eliz. Jordan & Thomas Flood. The other halfe of my said personall estate, as alsoe all my land in Virga., I give & bequeath unto my nephew, Thomas Jordan, & to his heirs for ever; he or they performing the above said sermon; and in case of his decease before this will be proved, then all that I have given to him, I give to my brother, Arthur Jordan, to be equally divided amongst my seaven nephews and my neece Eliz. Jordan, only a mourning ring to himself; but still the above said sermon to be preached yearly by a lawful minister unto the end of the world. I pray to God Almighty to bless this poore Colony & this County, especially wherein I have now lived about 43 years. Since the making of this, my will, above written, I have given my nephew, Edward Bayly, a seate of land for ever, cald the white marsh, & I doe therefore take back the six hundred pounds of tob mentioned in my will above said and doe give it equally between Christopher Flood(?) & Walter Flood. I give unto Donall Roome five hundred pounds of tob. I give also unto Katherine Maddison five hundred pounds of tob towards the cure of her legg, if shee be not sent out of this parish by the vestry befoare the cure be effected. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Linda Lewis USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation.