Samuel Jordan, Jr., Esq. Of Biddeford, Maine, Harvard B.A. in 1750, merchant, served as representative to the General Court, Selectman and Justice of the Peace for York and Lincoln County. He had a commanding character. They had 9 children. Mercy and Samuel Jordan died of yellow fever. The contagion was brought into Winter Harbor, Biddeford, by a vessel from the West Indies, and many inhabitants died from this disease.
His great-grandfather, Reverend Robert Jordan, who came to this country in about the year 1640, from Dorsetshire (or possibly Devonshire), England, and settled as an Episcopal clergyman on Richmond's Island, near Portland; becoming famous as a preacher, statesman, a man of affairs, and land owner. His contentions with the Puritans, in defense of his religious views and practices, and his political career, including his determined and successful opposition to the spread of the witchcraft heresy, eastward of Massachusetts Bay.
His great-grandfather, Reverend Robert Jordan, who came to this country in about the year 1640, from Dorsetshire (or possibly Devonshire), England, and settled as an Episcopal clergyman on Richmond's Island, near Portland; becoming famous as a preacher, statesman, a man of affairs, and land owner. His contentions with the Puritans, in defense of his religious views and practices, and his political career, including his determined and successful opposition to the spread of the witchcraft heresy, eastward of Massachusetts Bay.
Samuel Jordan, Jr., Esq. Of Biddeford, Maine, Harvard B.A. in 1750, merchant, served as representative to the General Court, Selectman and Justice of the Peace for York and Lincoln County. He had a commanding character. They had 9 children. Mercy and Samuel Jordan died of yellow fever. The contagion was brought into Winter Harbor, Biddeford, by a vessel from the West Indies, and many inhabitants died from this disease.
His great-grandfather, Reverend Robert Jordan, who came to this country in about the year 1640, from Dorsetshire (or possibly Devonshire), England, and settled as an Episcopal clergyman on Richmond's Island, near Portland; becoming famous as a preacher, statesman, a man of affairs, and land owner. His contentions with the Puritans, in defense of his religious views and practices, and his political career, including his determined and successful opposition to the spread of the witchcraft heresy, eastward of Massachusetts Bay.
His great-grandfather, Reverend Robert Jordan, who came to this country in about the year 1640, from Dorsetshire (or possibly Devonshire), England, and settled as an Episcopal clergyman on Richmond's Island, near Portland; becoming famous as a preacher, statesman, a man of affairs, and land owner. His contentions with the Puritans, in defense of his religious views and practices, and his political career, including his determined and successful opposition to the spread of the witchcraft heresy, eastward of Massachusetts Bay.
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