He had a younger brother Arthur Jordan (1628-1698), who also emigrated to the Virginia colony, and whose descendants would carry on the family name, including with a son (this man's grandson), whom contemporaries sometimes called George Jordan Jr.[4][5][6] Their sister named Fortune (in honor of whom this man named his daughter), also emigrated and became the second wife of Col. John Flood, and after his death renounced all her widow's rights and married James Mills, a Surry county merchant.
[2] Complicating matters, two other men with the surname Jordan also emigrated early to the Virginia colony, settled nearby on the south side of the James River and served in the House of Burgesses, as would this man.
Nor does this man appear related to the probable Quaker Thomas Jordan who moved from Isle of Wight to Nansemond County.
[12] In any event, during his decades in Virginia Jordan accumulated significant landholdings, by patents for persons whose emigration he paid, including his first wife, variously known as Ann or Alyce.
[15] Accounts differ as to whether Jordan had been formally appointed to the Virginia Governor's Council in 1670, or whether he attended meetings ex officio because of his positions at attorney general and deputy escheator.
Following the conflict, the commissioners investigating the rebellion (Herbert Jeffreys, John Berry and Francis Moryson) on May 1, 1677 requested Jordan and fellow burgess Major Theophilius Hone (whose house was destroyed in the Jamestown arson by Bacon's followers) prepare a report about loss of goods and cattle in James City, New Kent and York Counties, which survives but reportedly is extremely difficult to read.