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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. [1]
John Mason (October 1600 – January 30, ... and in 1990 founded the Green Party ... was a United States senator from New Hampshire. John Sanford Mason, (August ...
At the urging of the heirs of John Mason, who were trying to recover their inherited claims, Charles issued a new charter in 1682, with Edward Cranfield as lieutenant governor. This government survived until the Dominion of New England was introduced in 1686, although Cranfield departed the province in 1685, replaced in the interim by his ...
A mature frontier: the New Hampshire economy 1790–1850 Historical New Hampshire 24#1 (1969) 3–19. Squires, J. Duane. The Granite State of the United States: A History of New Hampshire from 1623 to the Present (1956) vol 1; Stackpole, Everett S. History of New Hampshire (4 vol 1916–1922) vol 4 online covers Civil War and late 19th century
The Province of New Hampshire was an English colony and later a British province in New England. It corresponds to the territory between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers on the eastern coast of North America. It was named after the English county of Hampshire in southern England by Captain John Mason in 1629, its
Featuring Mason the Moose — named for John Mason, credited with giving New Hampshire its name 400 years ago — the program helps students in grades 3 to 6 navigate the history of the state from ...
John Argall; The Council would have full legal rights of governance and administration over the colonial plantation. The members of the Council would elect a President to oversee administrative affairs. In 1622, the Plymouth Council issued a land grant to John Mason which ultimately evolved into the Province of New Hampshire. [6]
Mason is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,448 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Mason, together with Wilton , is home to Russell-Abbott State Forest.