William Jordan
Lieutenant WIlliam Jordan was born March 31, 1744 in Richmond County, North Carolina, and died September 23, 1826 in Warren County, Georgia. He married in 1786 Ann Medlock (3/17/1759 Virginia-11/29/1817 Warren Co. Ga.), the daughter of Charles and Agatha Medlock.Lt. Jordan was buried near Warrenton, Georgia near their home built in 1794 (in a good state of preservation in 1906). The homeplace was remembered by his great-granddaughter, Theo M. Jordan (Mrs. J. P. Wood) as a two-story building built of logs and having an immense fireplace.
During the Revolutionary War, Lt. Jordan was wounded in the thigh with a musket ball by the Tories; he was taken to a prison and released in Wilmington, North Carolina when Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia on October 19, 1781.
Sources:The Jordan File of Jean Marie Jordan, Atlanta, Georgia, MSS Section of the Georgia State Archives; The Austin Collection by Jeannette Holland Austin, Vol. 1, pp 231-232; The Georgians by Jeannette Holland Austin, page 200-203, Jordan Genealogies.
Quoted from Hero Implants by Jeannette Holland Austin:
"Lieutenant William Jordan of Richmond County, Virginia served under General Nathanael Greene as an Ensign in the Georgia Line, and was wounded in the thigh with a musket ball and taken prisoner by the British on September 1, 1780; and exchanged two years later. However, when Lord Cornwallis was defeated at Yorktown, he was released at Wilmington."