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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.
Early historians record that in 1623, under the authority of an English land-grant, Captain John Mason, in conjunction with several others, sent David Thomson, a Scotsman, and Edward and Thomas Hilton, fish-merchants of London, with a number of other people in two divisions to establish a fishing colony in what is now New Hampshire, at the ...
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,...
Contents. hide. (Top) Before colonization. Early English settlement. First royal charters. 1691 charter. American Revolution. Demographics. See also. Notes. References. Province of New Hampshire. Topographical map of the province. The Province of New Hampshire was a colony of England and later a British province in New England.
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.
