Thomas Jordan was a Private in the Illinois Regment of Virginia Militia under the command of Colonel George Rogers Clark during his campaigns at "Post Vincennes" in 1778-1779 and the capture of the fort under the command of the British General Henry Hamiltion. There is s government stone that marks his gravesite for his Revolutionary War service.
After his service with Clark, Thomas Jordan came to the Indiana Territory and settled in the Vincennes area about 1784. It would seem that his brother, Ephraim Jordan settled in the same area in 1785, whereas he received a military donation of 100 acres for his service with Clark.
Thomas Jordan was in the Battle of Tippicanoe in Captain Toussaint Du Bois Company of Spies and Guides on Nov. 7, 1811 under the command of General William Henry Harrison.
OBITUARY OF THOMAS JORDAN
DIED--On Monday the 17th instant, at his residence in this county, aged seventy years, THOMAS JORDAN, Esq., an old and highly respectable citizen of our county. Thus it is that one by one the pioneers of the West are departing; "the places which once knew them know them no more forever;" and generation after generation is springing up to supply their places, and are traveling onward to the "same bourne" their fathers have gone before them. The biographies of these men, the relicks of days gone by, would be interesting.
Their history is the history of the West. Mr. Jordan came to Vincennes with Colonel Clark* when he captured the "post". (February 1779) He was present at the time when Hamilton and his garrison were surrendered. He came here, when from Pittsburgh to St. Louis all was a wilderness, with the exception of some few garrisons and trading posts.
What a change in one man's lifetime! Imagination can hardly realize it. Yet Mr. Jordan has witnessed it all. Respected, beloved and lamented, "full of years" he has departed, respected by all who knew him, and with the full assurance that the reward of "well done good and faithful servant," will be his portion hereafter. (Reference: Vincennes, Knox County Indiana Western Sun, August 22, 1835)
After his service with Clark, Thomas Jordan came to the Indiana Territory and settled in the Vincennes area about 1784. It would seem that his brother, Ephraim Jordan settled in the same area in 1785, whereas he received a military donation of 100 acres for his service with Clark.
Thomas Jordan was in the Battle of Tippicanoe in Captain Toussaint Du Bois Company of Spies and Guides on Nov. 7, 1811 under the command of General William Henry Harrison.
OBITUARY OF THOMAS JORDAN
DIED--On Monday the 17th instant, at his residence in this county, aged seventy years, THOMAS JORDAN, Esq., an old and highly respectable citizen of our county. Thus it is that one by one the pioneers of the West are departing; "the places which once knew them know them no more forever;" and generation after generation is springing up to supply their places, and are traveling onward to the "same bourne" their fathers have gone before them. The biographies of these men, the relicks of days gone by, would be interesting.
Their history is the history of the West. Mr. Jordan came to Vincennes with Colonel Clark* when he captured the "post". (February 1779) He was present at the time when Hamilton and his garrison were surrendered. He came here, when from Pittsburgh to St. Louis all was a wilderness, with the exception of some few garrisons and trading posts.
What a change in one man's lifetime! Imagination can hardly realize it. Yet Mr. Jordan has witnessed it all. Respected, beloved and lamented, "full of years" he has departed, respected by all who knew him, and with the full assurance that the reward of "well done good and faithful servant," will be his portion hereafter. (Reference: Vincennes, Knox County Indiana Western Sun, August 22, 1835)
Thomas Jordan was a Private in the Illinois Regment of Virginia Militia under the command of Colonel George Rogers Clark during his campaigns at "Post Vincennes" in 1778-1779 and the capture of the fort under the command of the British General Henry Hamiltion. There is s government stone that marks his gravesite for his Revolutionary War service.
After his service with Clark, Thomas Jordan came to the Indiana Territory and settled in the Vincennes area about 1784. It would seem that his brother, Ephraim Jordan settled in the same area in 1785, whereas he received a military donation of 100 acres for his service with Clark.
Thomas Jordan was in the Battle of Tippicanoe in Captain Toussaint Du Bois Company of Spies and Guides on Nov. 7, 1811 under the command of General William Henry Harrison.
OBITUARY OF THOMAS JORDAN
DIED--On Monday the 17th instant, at his residence in this county, aged seventy years, THOMAS JORDAN, Esq., an old and highly respectable citizen of our county. Thus it is that one by one the pioneers of the West are departing; "the places which once knew them know them no more forever;" and generation after generation is springing up to supply their places, and are traveling onward to the "same bourne" their fathers have gone before them. The biographies of these men, the relicks of days gone by, would be interesting.
Their history is the history of the West. Mr. Jordan came to Vincennes with Colonel Clark* when he captured the "post". (February 1779) He was present at the time when Hamilton and his garrison were surrendered. He came here, when from Pittsburgh to St. Louis all was a wilderness, with the exception of some few garrisons and trading posts.
What a change in one man's lifetime! Imagination can hardly realize it. Yet Mr. Jordan has witnessed it all. Respected, beloved and lamented, "full of years" he has departed, respected by all who knew him, and with the full assurance that the reward of "well done good and faithful servant," will be his portion hereafter. (Reference: Vincennes, Knox County Indiana Western Sun, August 22, 1835)
After his service with Clark, Thomas Jordan came to the Indiana Territory and settled in the Vincennes area about 1784. It would seem that his brother, Ephraim Jordan settled in the same area in 1785, whereas he received a military donation of 100 acres for his service with Clark.
Thomas Jordan was in the Battle of Tippicanoe in Captain Toussaint Du Bois Company of Spies and Guides on Nov. 7, 1811 under the command of General William Henry Harrison.
OBITUARY OF THOMAS JORDAN
DIED--On Monday the 17th instant, at his residence in this county, aged seventy years, THOMAS JORDAN, Esq., an old and highly respectable citizen of our county. Thus it is that one by one the pioneers of the West are departing; "the places which once knew them know them no more forever;" and generation after generation is springing up to supply their places, and are traveling onward to the "same bourne" their fathers have gone before them. The biographies of these men, the relicks of days gone by, would be interesting.
Their history is the history of the West. Mr. Jordan came to Vincennes with Colonel Clark* when he captured the "post". (February 1779) He was present at the time when Hamilton and his garrison were surrendered. He came here, when from Pittsburgh to St. Louis all was a wilderness, with the exception of some few garrisons and trading posts.
What a change in one man's lifetime! Imagination can hardly realize it. Yet Mr. Jordan has witnessed it all. Respected, beloved and lamented, "full of years" he has departed, respected by all who knew him, and with the full assurance that the reward of "well done good and faithful servant," will be his portion hereafter. (Reference: Vincennes, Knox County Indiana Western Sun, August 22, 1835)
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