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New Hampshire - Colonial, Revolution, Lakes: Before contact with the English, about 3,000 Native Americans inhabited what eventually became New Hampshire. They were organized into clans, semiautonomous bands, and larger tribal entities; the Pennacook, with their central village in present-day Concord, were by far the most powerful of these tribes.
John Mason (governor) Captain John Mason (1586–1635) was an English sailor and colonist who was instrumental to the establishment of various settlements in colonial America and is considered to be the 'Founder of New Hampshire'. Mason was born in 1586 at King's Lynn, Norfolk, and educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. [1] Early Career.
Aug 29, 2011 · New Hampshire was on a charter that Sir Fernando Gorges and John Mason received in 1622 that included multiple others. The first settlement of New Hampshire was Little Harbor, which was settled by a Scotchman named Thomson. The second settlement was Dover, which was settled by Edward Hilton, a London fish merchant.
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,...
The colony that became the state of New Hampshire was founded on a 6,000-acre (2,400 ha) land grant given in 1622 by the Council for New England to Mr. David Thomson, gent. In 1629, following Thomson's death, Captain John Mason (former governor of Newfoundland) and Sir Ferdinando Gorges (who founded Maine) granted
Settlement in New Hampshire began in 1622, when John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges were given the territory between the Merrimac and Sagadahoc Rivers. David Thomson, Edward Hilton and Thomas Hilton were some of the early leaders of the settlement. The early settlement was established along the coast of New Hampshire.
New Hampshire was originally part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The area was first settled in 1623, at Odiomnes Point, near the current location of Portsmouth. The settlers of New Hampshire were an independent group and did not like being governed from Massachusetts.
