Earl of Portland is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England, first in 1633 and again in 1689.
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When that I think what grief it is again
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but ties of blood, or seed endure,
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“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)