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5 days ago · Sanborn’s History of New Hampshire was published in 1875 two years before the founding of the Granite Monthly magazine. We have added paragraph breaks that are not in the original. NH historians often compare the well known founding of the Bay Colony to the relatively unknown start of New Hampshire.
1 day ago · New England, region, northeastern United States, including the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region was named by Capt. John Smith, who explored its shores in 1614 for some London merchants.
4 days ago · In January 1776, it became the first of the British North American colonies to establish an independent government and state constitution; six months later, it signed the United States Declaration of Independence and contributed troops, ships, and supplies in the war against Britain.
5 days ago · The state of New Hampshire has done precious little to commemorate the settling of the colony in 1623, just three years after the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA. Historians generally agree that David Thomson (Thompson) and his wife Amais and 10 hardy fishermen built a small fort and palisade called Pannaway Manor at what is now Odiorne Point ...
1 day ago · New constitutions were drawn up in each state to supersede royal charters. They proclaimed that they were now states, no longer colonies. On January 5, 1776, New Hampshire ratified the first state constitution. In May 1776, Congress voted to suppress all forms of crown authority, to be replaced by locally created authority.
3 days ago · Raid on Fort William and Mary. NH HOT HEADLINES. December 14-15, 1774. This historic battle, though little known outside the Granite State, was a seminal event in New England’s progress toward the American Revolution. Ignited by Paul Revere, hundreds of Seacoast New Hampshire men raided the armory of the British King in an rare act of open ...
1 day ago · First constitution for the United States. The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government. It was debated by the Second Continental Congress at Independence Hall in Philadelphia between July 1776 and ...
