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In 1776, the province established an independent state and government, the State of New Hampshire, and joined with twelve other colonies to form the United States. Europeans first settled New Hampshire in the 1620s, and the province consisted for many years of a small number of communities along the seacoast, Piscataqua River, and Great Bay.
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 New England Colonies of British America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and the Province of New Hampshire, as well as a few smaller short-lived colonies. The New England colonies were part of the Thirteen Colonies and eventually became five of the ...
Province of New Hampshire becomes a royal colony. 1681 – William Penn granted charter to establish Province of Pennsylvania. [1] Edward Randolph appointed customs collector for New England. City of London loses its charter. 1682 – Philadelphia founded. Plant cutter riots in Gloucester County, Virginia. 1683 – "Hull Mint" closed. John Hull ...
Other colonists settled to the north, mingling with adventurers and profit-oriented settlers to establish more religiously diverse colonies in New Hampshire and Maine. Massachusetts absorbed these small settlements when it made significant land claims in the 1640s and 1650s, but New Hampshire was eventually given a separate charter in 1679.
The New Hampshire Grants or Benning Wentworth Grants were land grants made between 1749 and 1764 by the colonial governor of the Province of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth. The land grants, totaling about 135 (including 131 towns ), were made on land claimed by New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River , territory that was also claimed by ...
This is a chronology and timeline of the ... New Haven Colony – English; 1638: Fort Christina – Swedish; 1638: Exeter – English; 1638: Hampton, New Hampshire ...
After shifting for themselves for a time (during which much of the Mason property was appropriated by the colonists), [15] the plantations of New Hampshire agreed in 1641 to join with the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The towns of New Hampshire sent representatives to the Massachusetts legislature, and were governed by its governors, who were ...