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1622 King James I granted region between Salem and Merrimac Rivers to John Mason, Sir Ferdinando granted region between Merrimac and Kennebec Rivers to David Thomson
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1623 Dover settlement founded
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1629 John Mason received land grant and named the new settlement New Hampshire
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1641 Massachusetts Colony gained control of New Hampshire settlementsc
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1642 School Act of Massachusetts, required children to be taught reading, citizenship, religion
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1645 First recorded slave in Portsmouth
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1690 Warship, Falkland, constructed for British Navy in Portsmouth
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New Hampshire was permanetly reparated from
Massachusetts, becoming the Royal province colony of New Hampshire -
john wentworth became New Hampshires lievtentant governor
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religious revival, great awakening swept through New Hampshire
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ruth blay became the fast person elecuted in portrnouth from concealing the death of ben own illegutumate child
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1641 Massachusetts Colony gained control of New Hampshire settlementsc
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Gov. Benning Wentworth makes first New Hampshire grant-for town of Bennington
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The New Hampshire Gazette is formed; and was at one time the "oldest newspaper of continuous publication in the United States."
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1765 - November 1 - Stamp Act of King George III goes into effect
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November 1 - Stamp Act of King George III goes into effect.
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First summer resort in America, the summer home of Royal Governor John Wentworth at Wolfeboro, New Hampshire
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Founding of Dartmouth College.
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- Dartmouth College opens at Hanover
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First state to declare itself independent from England
Patriots from the local area raid Fort William and Mary and steal the gunpowder stored there. (Incident becomes known as the Powder Raid.) -
June 16-17- British troops fire on the revolutionaries at Lexington, Massachusetts
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New Hampshire was the 9th state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. With this ratification, the Constitution officially went into effect.
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-The state capital was established in Concord. New Hampshire is home to the nation’s oldest legislative building in which the House and Senate still meet.
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Nov 5, Benjamin Butler (d.1893), later Union Civil War general, was born in New Hampshire
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Sarah Josepha Hale of Newport, N.H., published a collection of poems "Poems for Our Children," that included "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
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Joseph Foster began building reed organs and melodeons. In 1845 he moved from Winchester to Keene and was joined by his brother Ephraim. The firm became
