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.
The Third Supply Mission from England to Jamestown consisted of five to six hundred people, in a fleet of eight ships, with Admiral Sir George Somers, Samuel Jordan and Sir Thomas Gates.
Jordan | Samuel Beckett | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Michael Jordan | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Pepys | Samuel L. Jackson | Crossing Jordan | Abdullah II of Jordan | Jordan River | Samuel R. Delany | Samuel Barber | Sheila Jordan | Samuel Goldwyn | Samuel | Hussein of Jordan | Samuel Alito | David Starr Jordan | Sass Jordan | Robert Jordan | Samuel Butler | Queen Noor of Jordan | Samuel Ramey | Ralph Jordan | Samuel Morse | Samuel Gompers | Samuel de Champlain | Steve Jordan | Samuel Sewall | Neil Jordan |
The avenue was formerly named after Dr. Samuel Jordan, the founder and the head of the American College of Tehran (later Alborz High School) from the 1910s to 1941.