Death; Widow's Remarriage
Samuel Jordan died by June 4, 1623 His widow became the target of pursuit of two men, one the Rev. Greville Pooley and the other William Farrar, a grand-nephew of Nicholas Ferrar (a merchant and leading member of the Virginia Company). When Greville Pooley's offer of marriage was declined, he complained to the Court, in an action which has been called the New World's first breach-of-promise suit.
Pooley's suit was unsuccessful, and in 1625 Cicely Jordan and William Farrar married. The marriage produced three known children (Cicely, John, and William); son William inherited, and became the founder of the Virginia Farrars.
Today there are numerous descendants of Cicely Jordan Farrar, from her presumed first marriage (through the marriage of her daughter Temperance Baley to Richard Cocke,) and from her third marriage to William Farrar; but descendants of her daughters from her marriage to Samuel Jordan have not been traced, with the result that there are today no documented descendants of Samuel Jordan.
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