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Cecily Jordan Farrar was one of the earlier women settlers of colonial Jamestown, Virginia.She arrived in the colony as a child in 1610 and was established as one of the few female ancient planters by 1620.
Virginia Cavaliers were royalist supporters (known as Cavaliers) in the Royal Colony of Virginia at various times during the era of the English Civil War and the Stuart Restoration in the mid-17th century. They are today seen as a state symbol of Virginia and the basis of the founding Cavalier myth of the Old South.
Samuel Jordan (died 1623) was an early settler and Ancient Planter of colonial Jamestown.He arrived in Virginia around 1610, and served as a Burgess in the first representative legislative session in North America.
Works of popular culture like Gone with the Wind (1939) repeatedly extolled the Antebellum South as a lost country of "Cavaliers and Cotton Fields". [ 17 ] Historian Rollin G. Osterweis identified the "chivalric planter", alongide the Southern belle, the Uncle Remus , and the Confederate veteran, "once a knight of the field and saddle", as the ...
Cavaliers and Pioneers: 1666-1695, page 404, states that the Abrahall mentioned in a 1691 patent on page 360 is the same Robert Abrahall who had patented land in 1654, according to a patent abstracted on page 30. [8]
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.
(1702) I. 504 Several sorts of malignant Men, who were about the King; some whereof, under the name of Cavaliers, without having respect to the Laws of the Land, or any fear either of God or Man, were ready to commit all manner of Outrage and Violence. 1642 Petition Lords & Com. 17 June in Rushw. Coll. III.
New Zealand Cavaliers, the unofficial New Zealand rugby team which toured South Africa in 1986; The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps, a modern drum and bugle corps from Rosemont, Illinois; Cavalier F.C., a Jamaican football team; Cavalier FC, a Bahamian football team; Walsh Cavaliers, any of Walsh University's athletic teams