Thomas Marsten JORDAN
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Thomas Marsten Jordan was a carpenter and farmer. After moving from Maine to Minnesota sometime between 1850 and 1857, Thomas and Lavina settled in the Monticello area just northwest of Minneapolis, where they remained through 1885.
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states that Juson enlisted in the U S Army in the War Between the States, and was killed in battle in 1862. He may be the Judson A Jordan who enlisted1008
at Marqueete, MI, and on 31 July 1861 joined the First Michigan Infantry, Company I. That is the same date and location, and even the same company that Samuel Starrett, the man his sister Jane would marry, enlisted with. That Judson Jordan mustered out at Gaines' Mill, VA, 27 Jun 1862.
In 1857, Alice was enumerated with Charles B Jordan, her brother, next-door to her father's home. In 1880, Alice (unmd) is living with her parents, listed as a teacher.
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Thomas (or perhaps his son Thomas, Jr.) is involved in land transactions in 1869 and 1884 in Greenleaf and St Cloud. The 1869 transaction registered in the Greenleaf office as a homestead entry is listed as Document No. 1.
Lavina A WEEKS
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In any case, Judson does not seem to appear in any records after 1862.
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82. 1865 State Census MN, Territory, Sherbourne Co., Big Lake
722. Jordan Memorial: Family Records of Rev. Robert Jordan, and His Descendants in America (1882) – www.newenglandancestors.org
724. 1857 Census Territory of Minnesota, Wright Co., Monticello
725. 1885 State Census MN, Anoka Co., Anoka
726. 1850 Fed Census ME, Penobscot Co., Twp 4 Range 3
727. 1875 State Census, MN, Minnesota Territory, Scott Co., Becker
728. 1880 Fed Census MN, Anoka Co., Anoka
748. 1860 Fed Census MN, Wright Co., Monticello
840. Gravestone inscriptions - www.findagrave.com
994. 1870 Fed Census MN, Sherburne Co., Big Lake
1008. Civil War Soldiers. Compilation of Data from several sources (www.ancestry.com)