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Nov 8, 2020 · New Hampshire was one of the 13 original colonies of the United States and was founded in 1623. The land in the New World was granted to Captain John Mason, who named the new settlement after his homeland in Hampshire County, England. Mason sent settlers to the new territory to create a fishing colony. However, he died before seeing the place ...
Feb 9, 2024 · New Hampshire Colony was established in 1623 when the expedition started two settlements along the Piscataqua River. The first settlement was started by David Thomson at Odiorne’s Point, near present-day Rye. It was called “Pannaway Plantation.”. The other settlement was established by brothers Edward and William Hilton.
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The colony that became the state of New Hampshire was founded on the division in 1629 of a land grant given in 1622 by the Council for New England to Captain John Mason (former governor of Newfoundland) and Sir Ferdinando Gorges (who founded Maine).
Nationality. English. Known for. naming New Hampshire. 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.
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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. From 1641 to 1679 the region was administered by the ...
Nov 9, 2009 · One of the original 13 colonies, New Hampshire was the first state to have its own constitution. It was the 9th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution–the final state needed to put the document ...
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 mouth of the Piscataqua River.
