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 Province of New Hampshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Hampshire Colony was the product of several English land grants dating from 1623 to 1680, and for much of its colonial history was subject to the Massachusetts Colony and its leadership in Boston.
Although New Hampshire did not get its own colonial governor until 1741, in 1631 Captain Thomas Wiggin served as the first governor of the province of the Upper Plantation, comprising modern-day Dover, Durham and Stratham which ultimately became the royal Province of New Hampshire.
The disputed New Hampshire Grants territory (New Hampshire claimed it, a judge awarded it to New York) later became the state of Vermont.
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 Moving to New Hampshire
The average elevation of the White Mountains in New Hampshire is from 760 to 1,200 m (2,500 to 4,000 ft).
New Hampshire petitioned the king for a final settlement of its boundaries to the east and south with Massachusetts.
New Hampshire's economy expanded in the early 18th century by the introduction of potato cultivation and linen-making by the Scots-Irish.
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 The New Hampshire Almanac
A pre-Revolution event occurring in New Hampshire was the removal in 1774, by a small party of patriots at New Castle, of the powder and guns at Fort William and Mary.
New Hampshire is situated the most northern of the thirteen original states and lies between latitude 42-40 and 45-18 north and longitude 70-37 west.
New Hampshire is commonly known as the Granite State, and of late years by some writers is called the Queen State _ "Queen by right of her natural beauty; queen by her native hardy spirit; queen by her diversified industry; queen by reason of her motherhood of great men.
www.state.nh.us /nhinfo/history.html   (2279 words)

  
 New Hampshire Colonial History
The territory that afterward became New Hampshire was included in a grant of land in 1622 by the Council for New England to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason, both of whom had been interested in New England affairs from the beginning.
These were called the "New Hampshire Grants." But in 1765 the king decided the contest in favor of New York, and when the governor of that colony ordered the settlers, now several thousand in number, to repurchase their lands, they rose in rebellion.
A second patent to New Hampshire was granted to Mason November 7, 1629, and the name New Hampshire was used; ten days later another to Gorges and Mason for "Laconia," and two years later still another to the same for the land near the mouth of the Piscataqua.
www.usahistory.info /New-England/New-Hampshire.html   (1083 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Hampshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
New Hampshire is a state of hills and mountains sloping gradually from north to south.
The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanical Arts at Durham (founded 1867) is an excellent and liberally endowed state institution with 196 students (1908), 9 men and 13 women in general science; 48 men and 2 women in agriculture, and 124 men in engineering; professors and instructors, 31.
It was not eighty years from Henry VIII to Mason, and so it was that men imbued with the spirit of the English penal laws settled New Hampshire, whether of the Cavalier stripe, such as Mason, Gorges, and the Hiltons, or Puritan, such as Higgins, the Waldrons, and the Moodeys.
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 13 colonies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The 13 colonies were thirteen British colonies in North America, separately chartered and governed, that signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and formally broke with the Kingdom of Great Britain, leading to the American Revolutionary War and the establishment of the United States of America.
Other British North American possessions—the former French colony of Quebec and the colonies of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island—remained loyal to the British Crown and much later were united as Canada.
The red area is the area of the 13 colonies after the Proclamation of 1763.
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 Province of New Hampshire -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The colony's first settlements were at Little Harbor, (The capital of the state of Delaware) Dover, (A port city in southern England on the English Channel; Britain's major naval base) Portsmouth and (Click link for more info and facts about Exeter) Exeter.
The crown set New Hampshire apart in 1679 (as part of (Click link for more info and facts about King Charles II) King Charles II's power grab), reunited it with Massachusetts again in 1688, and separated it out one last time in 1691, at which point it became the royal Province of New Hampshire.
The disputed (Click link for more info and facts about New Hampshire Grants) New Hampshire Grants territory (New Hampshire claimed it, a judge awarded it to (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York) later became the state of (A state in New England) Vermont.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/province_of_new_hampshire.htm   (235 words)

  
 Seacoast NH History - Colonial Era   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The original "white" New Hampshire towns granted by the British Council of New England to John Mason were essentially plantations.
The shape of colonial New Hampshire is still visible in the sloping roof of the Portsmouth's Jackson House or Dover's last standing garrison.
The lowly gundalow was at the bottom of a hierarchy of sloops, frigates, shallops, whelks, wherries that were part of the new burgeoning boat-building industry of the Piscataqua.
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 New Hampshire
New Hampshire' s land-forms are low rolling coast followed by countless hills and mountains rising out of a central plateau, and 5,021,000 acres of forest.
New Hampshire's state motto is "Live Free or Die." The state bird is the purple finch, the state tree is white birch, the state song is "Old New Hampshire", the state flower is the purple lilac, the state seal was adopted in 1931,and NH's flag was adopted in 1909.
New Hampshire is about the best place to ski down snow mountains, hike through the woods, visit beaches, go to White mountain National Forest to see where the Abnaki Indians lived, take pictures of the flumes(which is a narrow canyon) and the Old Man of the Mountains.
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 New Hampshire
After a 38-year period of union with Massachusetts, New Hampshire was made a separate royal colony in 1679.
Abundant water power turned New Hampshire into an industrial state early on, and manufacturing is the principal source of income.
New Hampshire pie entrepreneur returns to limelight with self-help book.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108244.html   (362 words)

  
 New Hampshire maps and information page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Long the ancestral land of American Indian tribes, New Hampshire was first colonized by the English in the early 1600s, with permanent settlements built in present-day Dover, Portsmouth and Rye.
In New Hampshire, a fierce, determined pride in the traditions and values of early America is very much alive.
New Hampshire is dominated (south to north) by the White Mountains, a northern range of the Appalachian Mountains
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 Additional references about New Hampshire (from New Hampshire) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
With an area of 9,279 square miles (24,032 square km), it is bounded on the north by the Canadian province of Quebec, on the east by Maine and a 16-mile (25-km) stretch of the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by...
The area was initially claimed by New Hampshire, and the first land grant there was issued in 1749 by the first governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth.
Louisiana) concerning an attempt by the states of New Hampshire and New York to force Louisiana to pay interest on state bonds owned by citizens of the plaintiff states and assigned to those states for collection.
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 archives | New Hampshire Public Radio
New Hampshire like every other state is unique… the first in the nation primary, Live Free or Die, the only "Henniker" on earth, a moose lottery, and the McDowell Colony.
New Hampshire Union Leader columnist John Clayton has been called our state's "leading cultural maven", so who better to author a book about the 101 quintessential people, places, events, customs, lingo and little known facts about our great state.
In New Hampshire, 2 percent of working women earn more than $100,000 a year, 8 percent of CEOs are women, 58 percent of current college graduates are women, 67 percent of workers at or near minimum wage are women.
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 New Hampshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The climates in New Hampshire are the severe winters and the pleasant summers.
New Hampshire has a lot of land forms they are Franconcia Notch,the white mountains, Mount Washington, Mount Clay, Mount Madison, Mount Moosilake, Mount Adams, Mount Monadock, and the Merrimack River.
And when you are driving past the New Hampshire gardens you may see the state flower the Purple Lilac because it is the state flower.
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 PoliticsNH.com - New Hampshire's Online Political Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The New Hampshire Democratic Party announced today that some of their members are forming a think tank aimed at examining issues on the federal level.
After it became know that the New Hampshire Attorney General's office ordered a PAC that supported Democrats in 2004 to "cease and desist", a group of Republican lawmakers are hoping the AG will widen the investigation.
In today's stuanchly conservative New Hampshire Union Leader editorial page says they are impressed with how many Democrats are filing for city offices this year and suggest it is proof that the Manchester Republicans don't have their act together.
www.politicsnh.com   (5980 words)

  
 Hanson Family of New Hampshire Colony, Generations 1 and 2
Some of the Hansons of New Brunswick are not included here because I do not have knowledge of where they fit into the family.
He emigrated to New England, supposedly before 1636, and settled in the colony of New Hampshire on Cocheco River.
Joseph Boyce was a Quaker, and Elizabeth Boyce was baptized on 6 Mar. 1641/2 in Salem.
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 Amazon.com: The New Hampshire Colony (The Thirteen Colonies): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Traces the history of New Hampshire from the time of Indian settlements, through the arrival of the first colonists, to the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 which made it the ninth state.
This textbook describes New Hampshire during the colonial period, and is divided into chapters about the region's aborigines, early settlement, conflicts, the revolutionary war and statehood.
This is also a good refrence on how the natives and English got along in New Hampshire, in the 1600's, what the natives helped the English with, and how the English helped the natives.
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 ipedia.com: Province of New Hampshire Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The New Hampshire Colony was the product of several English land grants dating from 1629 to 1680, and for much of its colonial history was subject to the Massachusetts Colony and its leadership in Bos...
The New Hampshire Colony was the product of several English land grants dating from 1629 to 1680, and for much of its colonial history was subject to the Massachusetts Colony and its leadership in Boston.
The crown set New Hampshire apart in 1679, reunited it with Massachusetts again in 1688, and separated it out one last time in 1691, at which point it became the royal Province of New Hampshire.
www.ipedia.com /province_of_new_hampshire.html   (272 words)

  
 New Hampshire Revolutionary War Units
On 25 April 1775, anticipating formal aid from New Hampshire, the Massachusetts Committee of Safety directed Paul Dudley Sargent of Hillsborough County to raise a regiment.
On 18 May the full New Hampshire Provincial Congress resolved to raise men "to join in the common cause of defending our just rights and liberties." Legislation on 20 May created a Committee of Safety and authorized a 2,000-man quota for the New England army.
Poor's 2d New Hampshire Regiment was detained to defend the colony from possible British attack, but it was ordered to Cambridge on 18 June.
www.myrevolutionarywar.com /states/nh/index.htm   (530 words)

  
 colony pennsylvania and other pennsylvania related information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Growth of the Colony (from Pennsylvania) The religious freedom and liberal rule of Pennsylvania attracted people of many creeds and nationalities.
The Colony Factory Crafted Homes division in Shippenville, Pennsylvania, was built in 1987 and serves a 13-state area in the northeastern United...
Pennsylvania: From Colony to State By Carl G. Karsch Thomas McKean, President of the Pennsylvania Provincial Conference.
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They were attracted to this peaceful valley nestled in the New Hampshire hills in the shadow of Vermont's Mount Ascutney.
Known as the Athens of America, the Cornish Colony was a lively, glamorous society during its heyday from 1885 to 1925.
In New Hampshire's Cornish Colony, discover a portrait of the colonists' society and the fascinating people who contributed to America's cultural legacy.
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 13colonies
American Timeline: Colonization - elementary school report on the New England, middle, and southern colonies of the United States.
The chart lists the date each colony was founded, the individuals associated with the founding and whether it became a Royal colony.
William Penn is known, of course, as the founder of Pennsylvania.
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 Settlement of New Hampshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
From 1641 to 1643, New Hampshire was under the control of the Bay Colony, which had interpreted its own charter to include the southern portions of New Hampshire.
Land disputes and general ill feeling continued to exist between the two colonies until, in 1741, New Hampshire prevailed in disputed land cases and was finally established as an entirely separate entity.
Warfare against the French and Native Americans in the northern frontier areas of New Hampshire was frequent from 1690 until the peace at the end of the Seven Year's War in 1763.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h538.html   (353 words)

  
 Hanson Family of New Hampshire Colony
His date of death has not yet been found, and no probate records were found for him in New Hampshire.
His will was dated at Dover, NH, on 18 Sept. 1728, and proved at court in New Hampshire on 4 Feb. 1728/9.
It was printed in Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire, Vol.
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