Hi: There is a long dissertation explaining about these records. I have one family pasted below the double line if you want to scan down quickly and find them. One of their daughters married a Hinds - look at the very last line.. Found using the USGenWeb state archives search mechanism. Regards, Nan [email protected] ------------------------------- CNIDR Isearch-cgi 1.20.06 (File: a-k.txt) PORTLAND EARLY FAMILIES compiled by David C Young (c) 1997 by David C Young [email protected] The following is a working draft. Please! If you see something you like tell us. If you see something you don't like tell us. If you what to take, please also give and tell us so we can send you correction if it be the case. Thank you for visiting this site and I wish you a good day & happy hunting. We from the following from the Bailey Family Gen "929.2 B16c V1" at Maine State Library. On page 43 Subject title: Missing Records of Portland, 1775-1786 As inquiry is often made for the Records of Portland covering 1775-1786, George C Burgess, Esq, when he was city clerk kindly furnished the Recorder the following explanation concerning the records: "It is well known that Portland was orginally a part of the incorporated town of Falmouth, and when the city was set off from the town, Falmouth claimed and held the town records from the earliest date to 1786, the time of the separation. Desiring a copy of early records at hand the city appropriated in 1849 a certain sum of money for transcribing these records, then kept in the store of John K Noyes in West Falmouth, he being the town clerk, and the store his office, and Mr C S D Griffin was employed to copy them. The selectmen refused to allow the records to be taken from the town. Mr Griffin was compelled to make the copy in the vicinity of the clerk's office and while employed in this work the store took fire and was burned, 9 Oct 1849, together with the records, excepting the first two volumes which Mr Griffin had a few days before removed to his room for the purpose mentioned, ( dates 10 Mar 1718 to 25 May 1775.) The records lost dated from 1775-1786. This explains the hiatus of about eleven years in the records of Portland. This explanation does not leave the matter plain to the understanding of the reader, so I will add that the original books were destroyed at the time of the fire, those saved were the certified copies that had been made by Mr Griffin that are now in the use at the office room of our city clerk, which have been indexed, and are very often consulted now-a-days by people looking after footprints of ancestors. Mr Charles C S D Griffin, who made the copy, was a Portland man, born 29 May 1808. At the time of the great fire of 1866, he was living on Congress Street, near India, and lost everything. He was many years a bookkeeper for the Portland Gas Company, residing at 202 High Street, Miss Julia W Griffin, now occupying the premises. He departed his life 12 Mar 1898, age 90y. The daughter is the last of the Griffin family, at one time a city school teacher. ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ JORDAN James 2-2-6-0-0 6 see [VR 2-234 Portland] died ae 67y at Portland with Masonic honors in 1820 Was he born 1753 res Cape Elizabeth, d Portland 1820 wife Lydia __________________ W26690 He was late of Portland in 1822, a tanner, His widow, Lydia sold land to James Lunt, a marnier on Fore st. [Deeds Cumb 90:405] There was a James Jordan was int 12-25-1799 & passed 4-22-1800 Portland Lodge #1 occ' farmer] a James Jordan m int 24 Mar 1792 Nancy Isley a James Jordan m 5 Apr 1789 Abigail Bodge by Rev E Kellogg [CCM] a James Jordan m int 7 Mar 1793 Lydia Barnes Children of Jame & Mary _______ Jordan Mary born 18 Apr 1783 at Portland, d 3 Jul 1852 m 1815 Isaac Gray res Harrison Isabella born 3 Jul 1785 m Daniel Robinson of Portland moved to Monmouth Children of James & Lydia _______ Jordan: James Jr 30 Jan 1794 Lydia Curtis b 16 Nov 1795/6 at Portland m Stephen Merrill of Falmouth Sukey b 12 Dec 1797/8 of Portland m Nicholas Blaisdell Edward b 27 Jul 1799 m Mary North of Great Britain William b 29 Sept 1801 m Elizabeth Green, when widowed moved to Woburn MA Hannah b 20 Jul 1803 (or 10 June 1803) m Capt Arthur M Small of Portland Margaret Ann b 8 Dec 1808 m ELISHA HINDS at Portland