Province of New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Colony, today the U.S. state of New Hampshire, was the result of several English land grants 1623-1680. Most of the time in its history was ruled the colony from the located in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from Boston.

The first settlements of the colony took place in Little Harbor, Dover, Portsmouth and Exeter. The settlement in Exeter was founded in 1638 by John Wheelwright, a follower of Anne Hutchinson, who had been banished from their Puritan coreligionists from the province of Massachusetts Bay. John Wheelwright was sent by John Mason, who wanted to bring settlers to establish a fishing colony. These cities agreed in 1639 their union and in 1641 their connection to the colony of Massachusetts.

On January 1, 1680 New Hampshire from the Massachusetts colony was separated and became a royal colony with its own government. It was in 1688 reunited with Massachusetts and recently separated again in 1691, as it is the royal " New Hampshire Province" was. The name probably comes from the southern English county of Hampshire.

Although to 1741 New Hampshire had no own colonial governor, Captain Thomas Wiggin served in 1631 as the first governor of the province of Upper Plantations of New Hampshire, now Dover, Durham and Stratham comprehensively that ultimately the Royal Province of New Hampshire was.

The disputed territory of New Hampshire donations (New Hampshire claimed it, but a judge said it New York ) later became the U.S. state of Vermont.