NEW HAMPSHIRE

¿WHO FOUNDED?

• In 1638, John Mason founded New Hampshire.
• It was established by John Wheelwright.
• John Mason was born in 1586, and was born into a wealthy family in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England.
• He was well educated in astronomy and navigation, which lead him to find present day New Hampshire.
• John Mason served as governor of Newfoundland from 1615-1621.

¿WHEN AND WHY IT WAS FOUNDED?

• New Hampshire was founded in 1638.
• John Mason sent settlers to the new territory to create a fishing colony.
• However, John Mason died before ever seeing the land he put money into.

13 COLONIES
The New Hampshire colony was part of the original 13 colonies on the Atlantic Coast on present day United States. New Hampshire is part of the New England colonies.

Geography: Low coast, hills, mountains and plateau. The basic geography of New England consisted of mountains thick with trees, rivers and poor rocky soil that was difficult to farm and unsuitable for crops

Natural Resources: Include fish,whales, forests. Imported agricultural products from other colonies. Farming was difficult for crops like wheat because of the poor soil but corn, pumpkins, rye, squash and beans were raised

FUN FACTS

• Named after the English county of Hampshire where Captain John Mason lived.
• Jumanji was filmed in New Hampshire.
• Motto is "Live Free or Die" which was created by John Stark.
• New Hampshire is known as the granite state.

REFRENCES

• http://www.landofthebrave.info/new-hampshire-colony.htm
• http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/colonialamerica/p/hampshirecolony.htm
• www.visithn.gov/students/funfacts.html