New+Hampshire

New Hampshire Colony

1.New Hampshire was founded in 1629 by John Mason. Mason named New Hampshire in 1629 after Hampshire England. It was located between the and Merrimac rivers.

2. Explorers visited the land that is now New Hampshire from 1600-1605, and fishermen from England settled at Odiorne's Point in present-day Rye, and also in Dover in 1623. The first permanent settlement in New Hampshire was made in 1629, when Mason built a house near the mouth of the Piscataqua, and called the place Portsmouth. John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Georges had agreed to divide their domain at the Piscataqua, and Mason named his part of the territory New Hampshire.

3. New Hampshires originally founded by John Mason in 1629. Many other small fishing settlements had been there before, but none of them had really a strong government/community.

4. New Hampshire was colonized because the people who went there wanted free land without high rents to start their own smaller. Originally fishermen went their and made smaller settlements to fish and make profit.

5.  John Mason was born in 1586  in Norfolk England. From 1615  to 1621  Mason Governed the England Colonies. While he Govener was he made the first English map and wrote a very descriptive book entitled ‘A Briefe Discourse of the Newfoundland’. Later he was introduced to Sir Fedinando. Shortly after they meet Mason desided to drop his placement as govener to sail the seas with Ferdinando. In 1622 , Mason returned to England where he recived a patent with Sir Fedinando Georges from the council of New England for all the land between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers. Mason and Georges divided the land between them. Mason took land between the Merrimack and Piscatagua Rivers. He named this land New Hampshire after his home place in the county of Hampshire in england. New Hampshire was founded in 1632 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">. Later Mason planned to leave England in <span style="color: #ff7f00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1635 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> in order to visit New England.Sadly he passed that following December on his way to visit the new colony. He was buried in West Minster.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. The major activities in New Hampshire at the time were Agriculture (fishing,potatoes), Manufacturing(textiles,shipbuilding)New Hampshire's economy was also known for shipbuilding, lumber, fishing, and whaling.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.The Present day capital of New Hampshire is Concord

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8. New Hampshire was controlled by the colonial government of Massachusetts from 1641 to 1679. New Hampshire became a separate royal province in 1679 following religious and territorial disputes. Being a royal colony was when the colony was ruled directly by the King.

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