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Silvester Jourdain (sometimes Sylvester Jourdan) (d. 1650), was an English traveler who became a colonist at the Jamestown, Virginia settlement in 1609. During his journey, a tropical storm caused the Sea Venture to be shipwrecked on Bermuda (with George Somers, Thomas Gates, William Strachey, and other settlers). Silvester authored a pamphlet, Plaine Description of the Barmudas, which some have attributed as inspiration for William Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Silvester was a cousin of John Jourdain. Jourdain died unmarried in the parish of St Sepulchre, in the spring of 1650.