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“When I works I works hard! When I sets I sets easy, but when I thinks, I falls asleep!” Dizzy Dean
I’m still reading over what has been posted and thank you so much for that!! But I did spot something I can common on regarding a family that is connected to the Jordans. The 1500 acre tract that was purchased by Cornelius Oudelant “husband” was passed to his wife, Elizabeth (Wallis) Oudelant in 1666 upon his death. One of their sons was William Oudelant who married Christian Taberer, daughter of Thomas of Terrascoe Neck in 1678. They had three children before William died in 1687. Christian remarried to Robert Jordan, son of Thomas and Margaret Brasseur Jordan of Chuckatuck and gave birth to one daughter, Christian in 1689. She died in 1689, so maybe in childbirth. Robert Jordan then married Mary Belson, daughter of Edmund Belson and had 6 sons and 3 daughters.
Terri Rice
November 23, 2024 at 9:05 am
I am extremely impressed by your work.
I am currently trying to do the kind of mapping you have done here for the northwestern portion of Northampton County. There are lots of “fuzzy” patents, not to mention the (many) patents that are missing (including both of those belonging to my ancestor). I am working to determine his boundaries using other patents which list boundaries on his land, and deeds when land from existing or missing patents were sold. Obviously it will be inexact, but I feel compelled to do it nonetheless.
I am jealous of your topo maps! Finding an acceptable map to use was my first saga. The earlier maps which show the level of detail that I need for landmarks are too distorted for modern use, and except for the upper area of NC contained in historic VA topo maps, there do not appear to be any historic topo maps for the area. I finally settled on the Northampton Soil Survey map of 1925. Detailed enough, and completed before the Roanoke was damned. I have had to work my way through it to relabel creeks that have had their names changed, and to determine and label some of those where the name is missing.
I am finally at the stage of stacking up property boundaries so that when I get to one that has an anchor I can plop them onto the map, and hope to finish it sometime this year, lol.
I have a couple of general questions I would love to discuss with you if you have time and don’t mind. Let me know. Either way, thanks for your work here which gave me the idea and inspiration to work on my map.
Cynthia Dansby
January 9, 2026 at 11:29 am
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Marc
anderson1951
January 9, 2026 at 11:47 am