New Hampshire

Later explorers: 1605: Samuel de Champlain 1614: John Smith 1603: New Hampshire 1603: Martin Pring (English) sails past coast of New Hampshire looking for sassafras (he didn’t find any) “We beheld very good groves and woods replenished with tall Okes, beeches, pine-trees, firre-trees, hasels, wich-hasels, and maples. We saw here also all sundry sort of beasts, as stags, deere, beares, wolves, foxes, lusernes, and dogges with sharpe noses.” Later explorers: 1605: Samuel de Champlain 1614: John Smith

New Hampshire 1623: “Pannaway” settled by David Thompson as a fishing village at Odiorne’s Point (now Rye) Later, the settlement is moved upriver and named “Strawbery Banke” and then “Portsmouth.” It was the capital of the colony

New Hampshire Pannaway 1623: Dover is settled as a fishing village by William and Edward Hilton

Kennebec River Merrimack River New Hampshire Kennebec River Merrimack River 1629: Land between Merrimack and Kennebec Rivers granted to John Mason and Sir Fernando Gorges (The “Council for New England”)

Kennebec River Merrimack River Piscataqua River New Hampshire Kennebec River Kennebec to Piscataqua goes to Gorges (who calls it “Maine”). Merrimack River Piscataqua River Piscataqua to Merrimack goes to Mason (who calls it “New Hampshire”).

New Hampshire Dover Pannaway 1638: Exeter is settled by Rev. John Wheelwright, who fled Massachusetts.

1638: Hampton is settled by colonists from Massachusetts New Hampshire Dover Strawbery Banke 1638: Hampton is settled by colonists from Massachusetts Exeter

1641: The four NH towns join with the Massachusetts-Bay Colony. New Hampshire Dover Strawbery Banke 1641: The four NH towns join with the Massachusetts-Bay Colony. 1679: NH separates from MA 1688: Rejoins MA 1691: Separates again Exeter Hampton

New Hampshire 1741: NH gets a governor of its own, Benning Wentworth (Serves from 1741-1766)

Second Royal Governor: John Wentworth (1766-1775)

Maine (MA) New Hampshire Massachusetts Mass. claim NH claim 1741: NH/MASS boundary set at 3 miles north of the Merrimack River New Hampshire NH claim Massachusetts

Maine (MA) NH New York MA CT RI PA NJ NY Claim New Hampshire Maine (MA) NY Claim NH New York Bennington 1760s: Both NH and NY claim Vermont, called the “New Hampshire Grants” MA CT RI Hudson River PA NJ

New Hampshire Maine (MA) NH New York MA CT RI Hudson River PA NJ

New Hampshire 1764: King George II awards NH Grants to New York. The settlers there revolt, calling themselves the “Green Mountain Boys” (leader: Ethan Allen). They declare independence from NY and call themselves the “Republic of Vermont.” NH is awarded the Connecticut River.

I never even got to see my colony! New Hampshire Founded: 1623 I never even got to see my colony! Founder: David Thompson/Captain John Mason

Reason: To make money through fishing New Hampshire Reason: To make money through fishing Oh my cod! Why did you bite that hook!? Just for the halibut…

New Hampshire Capital: Portsmouth

Name: From Hampshire, an English county New Hampshire Name: From Hampshire, an English county

Agriculture: subsistence farms New Hampshire Agriculture: subsistence farms

Economy: masts, ship building, fishing New Hampshire Economy: masts, ship building, fishing

New Hampshire Other Stuff: Mast Pines: All straight pine trees over 12 inches in diameter were reserved for use by the Royal Navy, and marked with a: