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Englishman Martin Pring, who investigated the Portsmouth area in 1603
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Reknowned French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who mapped the coastline in 1605.
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John Smith, the early Jamestown settler, surveyed the coast of New Hampshire in 1614
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It was visited by Captain John Smith in 1614.
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New Hampshire was included in a grant of land in 1622 by the Council for New England
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In 1623, the Council for New England granted a charter to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason for the lands between the Kennebec and Merrimack rivers.
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Other fishermen settled on the site of Dover 1623
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New Hampshire settlements were put into massachusetts
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Much of New Hampshire's early history is the same to Massachusetts. From 1641 to 1643,
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New Hampshire was incorporated into a part of massachusetts
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Maine was purchased from the proprietors in 1677.
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In 1679, Charles II of England made New Hampshire a separate political entity and granted it a royal charter
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The colony received a new royal charter in 1680, under which the king selected a president and council.
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However, at the time of the Glorious Revolution in England, Massachusetts again regained control from 1689 to 1692
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Warfare against the French and Native Americans in the northern frontier areas of New Hampshire was frequent from 1690
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In 1719, a new settlement was established by Scots from Londonderry, Ireland, who named their new home in honor of their original town.
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Land disputes and general ill feeling continued to exist between the two colonies until, in 1741
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until the peace at the end of the Seven Year's War in 1763.
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Dartmouth College was established in 1769 by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock
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Maine did not fare as well and remained part of Massachusetts until it achieved statehood under the provisions of the Missouri Compromise in 1820.
