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  2. Mar 12, 2018 · How Did New Hampshire Get Its Name? New Hampshire was named after the county of Hampshire in England. The English county of Hampshire was named after an old English word “Hamtun.”

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  4. To the map was added the name Portsmouth, taken from the English town where Captain John Mason was commander of the fort, and the name New Hampshire is that of his own English county of Hampshire. Captain Mason died in 1635, just before his proposed trip to the new country which he never saw.

  5. The colony was named New Hampshire by Mason after the English county of Hampshire, one of the first Saxon shires. Hampshire was itself named after the port of Southampton, which was known previously as simply "Hampton".

    • Origin of the State Name. New Hampshire was named for Hampshire, England by Captain John Mason.
    • Nicknames. New Hampshire has 4 nicknames. The first is the one by which the state is commonly known. Granite State: for our extensive granite formations and quarries.
    • Capital. Concord is the seat of New Hampshire government. It is centrally located in the state on the Merrimack River.
    • Statehood. New Hampshire became the 9th state on June 21, 1788. It was one of the original 13 colonies.
  6. 6 days ago · A fishing and trading settlement was established in 1623, and in 1629 the name New Hampshire, after the English county of Hampshire, was applied to a grant for a region between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers. The towns of Dover, Portsmouth, Exeter, and Hampton were the main settlements.

  7. Nov 9, 2009 · London fish merchants Edward and William Hilton established the first permanent settlement in New Hampshire at Dover—now the seventh oldest continuous settlement in the United States. In 1630,...

  8. New Hampshire (/ ˈhæmpʃər / HAMP-shər) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Of the 50 U.S. states, New Hampshire is the eighth-smallest by land area and ...

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