New Hampshire

Introduction

Map: The Thirteen Colonies, 1790

First Contacts

Early Explorers

Sassafras

Western Abenaki of New Hampshire

Map: Western Abenaki of New Hampshire, 1600

Seasonal Life of the Western

Abenaki

Corn

Snowshoes

Western Abenaki Villages and Social Structure

Coming of the Europeans

Native Americans and Disease

First Settlements in New Hampshire

Creating New Hampshire

Sir Ferdinando Gorges (1566

1647)

Captain John Mason (1586

1635)

Map: Province of Maine, 1622

First European

Settlers in New Hampshire

Cod

Exeter and Hampton

Exeter combination (1639)

Map: Four original Towns in New Hampshire, 1640

Conflicts with Native Americans

Pequot war

Atrocities against Native Americans

New England Confederation

King Philip's war

Treachery in New Hampshire (1676)

Revolution, Reform, and Restoration in England

Voting rights in New Hampshire

Excerpt from the Navigation Act of 1651

Charles II (1630

1685)

Heirs of John Mason

Royal control of New Hampshire

Establishing a Government

Some early laws of New Hampshire

Gove Rebellion

Dominion of New England

James, Duke of York and Albany, Later King James II (1633

1701)

Map: Dominion of New England, 1686

1689

Fate of New Hampshire

War, wood, and Wentworths

King William's War, 1689

1697

Hannah Dustin (1657

1736)

Queen Anne's War, 1702

1713

Father Sebastien Rasle (ca. 1654

1724)

Trees of New Hampshire

Wentworths

Summer Houses

Dartmouth College

Growth, rorts, and more wars

Growth of the Colony

Graph: Population growth in New Hampshire, 1630

1790

Potato in North America

Rumford

Forts One, Two, Three, and Four

King George's war, 1744

1748

Battle of Louisbourg (June 1745)

Seven Years War, or the French and Indian war, 1754

1763

Robert Rogers (1731

1795)

Road to Revolution

Sugar Act, 1764

Stamp Act, 1765

Sons of Liberty

Excerpt from the Resolutions of the Continental Congress (October 19, 1765)

Townshend duties, 1767

New Hampshire Loyalists

Coercive acts, 1774

Governor Wentworth's carpenters

First Continental Congress, 1774

Capture of Fort William and Mary, December 14, 1774

Resolutions of the First Continental Congress

War for Independence

Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, 1775

John Stark (1728

1822)

"Whites of Their Eyes"

Excerpt from the New Hampshire Constitution (1776)

New Hampshire Declares Independence

First Paragraph of the Declaration of Independence

Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777

Hessians

Vermont and the Green Mountain Boys

War at Sea

John Paul Jones (1747

1792)

Becoming one state and a part of the nation

Articles of Confederation

Constitutional Convention, 1787

Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

Ebenezer Webster's speech to the New Hampshire Ratifying Convention

New Hampshire time line

New Hampshire Historical Sites

Further reading

Books

Web Sites

Index.