The J or dans of Jordan 



estine episode also was derived each of the two 

 coats-of-arms borne by his descendants - the one 

 a football rampant with the inscription, Percussa Good 

 resurgo, "Stricken down, I rise again," and the maxims 

 other a Crusader's shield with cross, two marlets, 

 and a marlin, bearing the motto, Crux dat salutem, 

 "The cross gives health." 1 



The Jordan manorial rights lapsed in 1793 because 

 a disinherited son neglected to reclaim the property. 

 At last accounts this was owned by a Mr. Blythe of 

 Cornwall, who turned over the houses to tenant 

 farmers. Meanwhile the Jordans have largely left Jordan 

 that region, various branches of the family being 

 scattered over the world. One group, indeed, early 

 established itself in Ireland, where '"D'Exeter Mac 

 Jordan" became in the thirteenth century a baron 

 in Connaught. 'Jordan is a great name in the old 

 country," an Irishman once assured me. In 

 "Penelope in Ireland" Kate Douglas Wiggin tells 

 the story of Sir William and his Irish descendants. 

 These are represented in America by William G. 

 Jordan of New York, a well-known writer. 2 



Of the American groups the best records are 

 maintained by one in Maine duly recorded in the 

 "Jordan Book" to which belong Dr. Whitman H. 

 Jordan, 3 director of the Cornell Agricultural Ex- 



1 One of my ancestral worthies (I am not sure which) is said to have chosen 

 the less romantic dictum, "Eagles do not catch flies." 



2 At the outset of the war, having written to the New York Times a note 

 describing the plight of the Jewish fruit growers about Jaffa, I received the 

 following note from "M. E. Jordan" of Brooklyn: 



"It is rather comic for an Irish renegade who pretends to be English to be 

 faking anxiety about Palestine. What is your particular graft?" 



3 See Chapter xxxiv, page 247. 



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