Everything about Province Of New Hampshire totally explained
The
New Hampshire Colony, located in the present day state of
New Hampshire, was the product of several English land grants dating from 1623 to 1680. One land grant was given to Captain John Mason in 1623. For much of its history the colony was controlled by the
Massachusetts Bay Colony based in Boston.
The colony's first settlements were at
Little Harbor,
Dover,
Portsmouth and
Exeter. David Thomson, Edward Hilton, and Thomas Hilton were sent by
John Mason, who wished to send settlers to create a fishing colony. They established the cities of Dover and Little Harbor. The settlement at Exeter was founded in 1638 by
John Wheelwright, a disciple of
Anne Hutchinson. These towns agreed to unite in 1639 and in 1641 agreed to join the Massachusetts Colony.
On
January 1,
1680, New Hampshire was separated from the Massachusetts Colony, becoming a colony with a separate government. It was reunited with Massachusetts in 1688, and separated out one last time in 1691, at which point it became the royal
Province of New Hampshire. The Province was named after the county of
Hampshire in southern
England by John Mason.
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Although New Hampshire didn't get its own colonial governor until 1741, in 1631
Captain Thomas Wiggin served as the first governor of the province of the Upper Plantation of New Hampshire, comprising modern-day Dover,
Durham and
Stratham, which ultimately became the royal Province of New Hampshire.
The disputed
New Hampshire Grants territory (New Hampshire claimed it, a judge awarded it to
New York) later became the state of
Vermont.
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