JORDON

Edward . b. Jamaica 1801; a quadroon; agitated for the free political right of the coloured population, and then for the abolition of slavery in Jamaica; edited a newspaper in Jamaica, for an article in which he was tried for high treason but acquitted; prime minister in first executive committee, Jamaica 1860, member of the committee again April 1863 to Oct. 1864; receiver general Oct. 1864 to Aug. 1865; island secretary and governor’s secretary Aug. 1865 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860, the first coloured man so honoured. d. Kingston, Jamaica 8 Feb. 1869. American Annual Cyclop. for 1869 p. 529.