New Hampshire Colony

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New Hampshire Colony was an early English settlement in North America that developed as a separate royal colony known for its small farming communities, timber, and fishing industries.

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New Hampshire Colony canonical 1
New Hampshire colony 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British colony in North America
former colony
borderedBy Atlantic Ocean
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Province of Maine
Province of Quebec
capital Portsmouth
charteredAsRoyalColony 1679
colonialPower England
Great Britain
continent North America
country Kingdom of England
currency Pound sterling
surface form: British pound
demographics English colonists
Native American peoples
dissolvedOn 1776
economyBasedOn fishing
fur trade
shipbuilding
small-scale farming
timber
endTime 1776
followedBy New Hampshire
foundedBy Ferdinando Gorges
John Mason
governmentType royal colony
headOfGovernment royal governor
inception 1623
indigenousPeoples Abenaki
languageUsed English
legislativeBody New Hampshire General Assembly
surface form: General Assembly of New Hampshire
locatedIn New England
North America
majorIndustry lumber exports for Royal Navy masts
namedAfter County of Hampshire, England
surface form: County of Hampshire

Hampshire
surface form: Hampshire, England
partOf Thirteen Colonies
precededBy Province of New Hampshire
surface form: Province of New Hampshire under Massachusetts Bay
primarySettlement Dover
Exeter
Hampton
Portsmouth
religion Protestantism
Puritanism
replacedBy New Hampshire
surface form: State of New Hampshire
significantEvent became separate royal colony in 1679
participation in the American Revolutionary War
sovereignState Kingdom of Great Britain
startTime 1623

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Massachusetts Bay Colony borderedBy New Hampshire Colony
New Hampshire General Assembly appliesToJurisdiction New Hampshire Colony
this entity surface form: New Hampshire colony