Jordan Point, Virginia
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Jordan Point seen from the approach to the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge; visible are the skeleton lighthouse tower and keeper's dwelling of the former Jordan Point Light
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 Jordan Point
Location within the Commonwealth of Virginia
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Jordan Point (the US)
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| Coordinates: 37°18′26″N 77°13′14″W / 37.30722°N 77.22056°WCoordinates: 37°18′26″N 77°13′14″W / 37.30722°N 77.22056°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Virginia |
| County | Prince George |
| Elevation | 20 ft (6 m) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1739904 |
Jordan Point (or Jordan's Point) is a small unincorporated community on the south bank of the James River in the northern portion of Prince George County, Virginia, United States.
English settlers began arriving at Jamestown in 1607, and the property at Jordan's Point was first known as "Jordan’s Journey" in 1619. It was then located in Charles Cittie (sic), a "burrough" (sic) or "incorporation" (sic) of the Virginia Company of London, the early proprietor of the Virginia Colony. The first recorded owner was Samuel Jordan, who with his wife, Cecily, her two daughters, and their adult male servants, took up residence around 1620, Samuel Jordan died in 1623, and his widow married William Farrar, who moved to Jordan’s Journey, which appears to have been abandoned by 1635.
Virginia became a royal colony in 1624. Ten years later, in 1634, the area of Jordan's Point became part of Charles City Shire, later Charles City County. The area of Charles City County south of the James River became Prince George County in 1703.
In 1656, the land at Jordan's Point was acquired by Theodorick Bland. In 1671, his son Richard Bland (I) of Berkeley Plantation inherited it, and established a home known as Jordan's Point Plantation there at some time before his death in 1720.
His son Richard Bland (II) (1710–1776) became the most famous man of that name in Virginia's history. The leading scholar of English Constitutional law in the colony in his day, Richard Bland served as a Justice of the Peace for Prince George County, as well as in the House of Burgesses. An early critic of slavery, Bland stated "under English government all men are born free", which prompted considerable debate with John Camm, a professor at Bland's alma mater, the College of William and Mary. Bland also argued the unfairness of the concept of "Taxation Without Representation" and may be the author of that famous phrase. Bland served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1775, and thus is considered one of the Founding Fathers, although elderly by the time of the American Revolution. Richard Bland died on October 26, 1776, only a few months after the Declaration of Independence was adopted. He became the namesake of Richard Bland College and Bland County, Virginia. The Bland family cemetery is still located at Jordan Point.
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