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The New Hampshire Grants region petitioned the Continental Congress for entry into the American union as a state independent of New York in 1776. In January 1775 Committees of Safety from over twenty towns in the New Hampshire Grants area met in Manchester to discuss the need for local self-governance independent from New York.
These grants brought New Hampshire into conflict with the Province of New York, the other claimant to the territory. King George III in 1764 ruled in New York's favor, setting off a struggle between the holders of the New Hampshire Grants and New York authorities that eventually resulted in the formation of the state of Vermont.
Green Mountain Rangers, 1776. The Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization established in 1770 in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, known as the New Hampshire Grants and later in 1777 as the Vermont Republic (which later became the state of Vermont).
New Hampshire has a wide range of colleges and universities, from the Ivy League Dartmoutha to state institutions such as the University of New Hampshire and Keene State. Unfortunately, New ...
Oct. 14—The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced last week it has nearly $20 million to remove lead hazards from homes and HUD-assisted properties in New Hampshire. This is ...
Benning Wentworth was born on July 24, 1696, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.His father, John Wentworth, was a ship's captain, businessman and colonial administrator who served as the lieutenant-governor of colonial New Hampshire from 1717 until 1730 after spending two years serving on merchant ships. [1]
New Hampshire is a state located in the Northeastern United States.It is divided into 234 municipalities, including 221 towns and 13 cities.New Hampshire is organized along the New England town model, where the state is nearly completely incorporated and divided into towns, 13 of which are designated as "cities".
Captain Mason was granted several land grants describing land in present day New Hampshire and Maine in the years from 1621 - 1631. [5] In 1622, Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges received a land patent from the Plymouth Council for New England for the territory lying between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers, extending 60 miles inland. [6]