Colonial New Hampshire

The Founding

• John Mason was the proprietor
• The Council for New England gave him a grant to the land

Government

• Colony was a proprietary colony
• Became a royal colony after John Mason's death
• The Governor's Council governed the royal colony

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Important People

• Chief Passaconaway, the Algonquian leader, taught the settlers how to survive

Important Events

• 1641- Became part of the Massachusetts Bay Company
• 1622- John Mason received a grant to the land

Unique Information

• Teachers were paid in corn
• John Mason never visited New Hampshire

Photo/Book Sources

• The Virginia Colony
• Life in the Thirteen Colonies: North Carolina
• The Colony of New Hampshire
• https://sites.google.com/site/newhampshirecolony4noobsez/home/when-it-was-f...
• http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html#newhamp
• https://www.landofthebrave.info/new-hampshire-colony.htm