Draft talk:Cicely Jordan Farrar

A fresh start for Cecily Jordan Farrar?

This page was created to replace the Cicely Jordan Farrar page that had been removed after being up many years. In this version, I tried to integrate information from the older drafts, while provided a good mix of references. Most of the references directly address some aspect of Jordan's life. A few provide narrative context to help give an anchor to the dates. All the elements which show Cicely as an actor (head of household, disavowing Pooley's claim) are substantiated by the sources, almost all of which are hyperlinked, and most of which are easily accessible. (Though some may require a free account to jstor). The narrative should help show Cecily's significance in early American colonial history.

One of the weakest links in the article is the picture of Ann Hutchinson, but the picture does illustrate Jordan's defiance of Pooley's claim, which is stated as such in the references.

Another weaker element is the information I added about Temperance Bailey. The reason for this is that throughout the history of this article, people have constantly been asserting that Cecily married a Bailey (variously named John, William or Thomas). She may have, but there is no documentation that makes this argument conclusive. I felt addressing this would perhaps reduce other genealogical tack-ons (e.g., making Cicely into a Reynolds or Phippen, or claiming that she remarried up to five times, all of which are also undocumented and seem the product of genealogical wishful thinking.)

Hopefully this article makes the case that Cicely Jordan Farrar is a historical figure worthy of her own article as a woman in American history. If you look at the Wikipedia article on Women of Colonial Virginia, you will see that all the one's listed at the end of the article have their own article. A simple comparison with Cicely's role shows she is a worthy peer of these other entries.

Finally, there is a chapter devoted to her in Miller's, 2016, Women of Colonial America: 13 Stories of Courage and Survival in the New World. (Though I have no evidence to support the claim, I bet it is quite probable that Wikipedia's original article may have played a role in getting her needed visibility to join the ranks of the other women in the book.) This is a book for young adults, but shows her worthiness as a role model for women of today. (I was inspired to use the Ann Hutchinson illustration from the cover of the book.)

As a last point. If this article is deemed worthy, I would like to suggest that it's contents replace the current Jordan-Pooley-Farrar affair (JPF affair) article and put that article's contents on a fresh page. (There is a link to the JPF affair article in this article, for readers who are more interested in the details and implications.) This transfer would allow this article to inherit back it's edit history, which goes back many years.Wtfiv (talk) 16:04, 21 January 2019 (UTC)