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Oct 10, 2018 · This is the fifth in a series of podcasts covering Colonial American History. This podcast describes how the colony of New Hampshire was first established an...
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- Ron Middlebrook
History of New Hampshire Colony -- how it was founded, why it was founded, its economy, geography/climate, and importance!
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Sep 6, 2021 · Colonizing New Hampshire. **During today's episode, you may hear intermittent audio crackling. That is on our end.**. Not many people are aware of the fact that New Hampshire was the...
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Jun 23, 2024 · The establishment of the New Hampshire Colony started in 1622 when the Council for New England gave a grant to Captain John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges for the territory between the Merrimack River and Kennebec River. In 1623, two settlements were established along the Piscataqua River.
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New Hampshire was one of the four New England Colonies, along with Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and Rhode Island colonies. The New England colonies were one of three groups comprising the 13 original colonies. The other two groups were the Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies. Settlers of the New England Colonies enjoyed mild summers but en...
Under the direction of Captain John Mason and his short-lived Laconia Company, two groups of settlers arrived at the mouth of the Piscataqua River and established two fishing communities, one at the mouth of the river and one eight miles upstream. David Thomson set sail for New England in 1623, with 10 others and his wife, and landed and establishe...
The primary Indigenous peoples living in the New Hampshire territory when the English arrived were the Pennacook and Abenaki, both Algonquin speakers. The early years of English settlement were relatively peaceful. Relations between the groups began to deteriorate in the latter half of the 1600s, largely due to leadership changes in New Hampshire. ...
Control of the New Hampshire colony changed several times before the colony declared its independence. It was a Royal Province prior to 1641 when it was claimed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was dubbed the Upper Province of Massachusetts. In 1680, New Hampshire returned to its status as a Royal Province, but this lasted only until 1688 when i...
Daniell, Jere R. "Colonial New Hampshire: A History." University Press of New England, 1981.Morison, Elizabeth Forbes, and Elting E. Morison. "New Hampshire: A Bicentennial History." New York: W. W. Norton, 1976.Whitney, D. Quincy. "Hidden History of New Hampshire." Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2008.Feb 9, 2024 · Important People in Colonial New Hampshire. John Mason — Mason is considered the Founder of New Hampshire. He invested a significant amount of his own money in the colony, trying to make it a profitable fishing operation. Unfortunately, Mason never had the opportunity to see New Hampshire.
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Apr 12, 2023 · There, I said it. Don’t shoot the messenger. We’ve been bending reality for centuries. Our founding English couple, David and Amias Thompson, landed at what is now the town of Rye in 1623. But they soon moved to Boston. Seven years later, what we now call Portsmouth began as a mining colony.
