1. New Hampshire

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 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”)

7. 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”).

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

9. 1638: Hampton is settled by colonists from Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Dover
Strawbery Banke
1638: Hampton is settled by colonists from Massachusetts
Exeter

10. 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

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

12. Second Royal Governor: John Wentworth (1766-1775)

13. 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

14. 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

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

16. 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.

17. 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

18. 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…

19. New Hampshire
Capital: Portsmouth

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

21. Agriculture: subsistence farms
New Hampshire
Agriculture: subsistence farms

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

23. 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: