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         The New Hampshire Wedding Guide/Planner is a guide to assist you in coordinating your wedding day and

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Did you know New Hampshire was first named North Virginia, and it was once under the jurisdiction

of Massachusetts? Read about the history of New Hampshire!

Early historians record that in 1623, under the authority of an English land-grant, Captain John Mason,

in conjunction with several others, sent David Thomson, a Scotsman, and Edward and Thomas Hilton,

fish-merchants of London, with a number of other people in two divisions to establish a fishing colony

in what is now New Hampshire, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River.

One of these divisions, under Thomson, settled near the river’s mouth at a place they called Little

Harbor or "Pannaway," now the town of Rye, where they erected salt-drying fish racks and a "factory"

or stone house. The other division under the Hilton brothers set up their fishing stages on a neck of

land eight miles above, which they called Northam, afterwards named Dover.

Nine years before that Captain John Smith of England and later of Virginia, sailing along the New

England coast and inspired by the charm of our summer shores and the solitude of our countrysides,

wrote back to his countrymen that:

"Here should be no landlords to rack us with high rents, or extorted fines to consume us. Here every

man may be a master of his own labor and land in a short time. The sea there is the strangest pond

I ever saw. What sport doth yield a more pleasant content and less hurt or charge than angling with

a hook, and crossing the sweet air from isle to isle over the silent streams of a calm sea?"

Thus the settlement of New Hampshire did not happen because those who came here were

persecuted out of England. The occasion, which is one of the great events in the annals of the

English people, was one planned with much care and earnestness by the English crown and the

English parliament. Here James the first began a colonization project which not only provided ships

and provisions, but free land bestowed with but one important condition, that it remain always subject

to English sovereignty.

So it remained until the "War of the Revolution." Smith first named it "North Virginia" but King James

later revised this into "New England." To the map was added the name Portsmouth, taken from the

English town where Captain John Mason was commander of the fort, and the name New Hampshire

is that of his own English county of Hampshire.

Captain Mason died in 1635, just before his proposed trip to the new country which he never saw.

He had invested more than twenty-two thousand pounds in clearing the land, building houses, and

preparing for its defense, - a considerable fortune for those days. By then Dover and Portsmouth

had expanded into Hampton and Exeter, and its income from fishing was increased by that from

trade in furs and timber.

Taking the idea from the English government, a community of "towns" was erected, and this became

a "royal province" in 1679 with John Cutt as president, with a population intended to be as nearly like

England as it could be. The "royal province" continued until 1698 when it came under the jurisdiction

of Massachusetts with Joseph Dudley as Governor. Thus it continued until 1741.

During that time England’s throne had been ruled by William and Mary, Queen Anne, and George I,

and New Hampshire was administered by no less than eight lieutenant governors. There had been

much unrest in England and as a result, to New Hampshire’s advantage, the Scotch settlers of

Londonderry in Ireland had in 1719 sent many of their people here to form a "Scotch" colony in the

new place they would call our own Londonderry.

Under King George II New Hampshire returned to its provincial status with a governor of its own,

enning Wentworth, who was its chief magistrate from 1741 to 1766.

During the first two decades of Governor Wentworth’s term New Hampshire had been beset with

indian troubles. With little aid from England, then at war with its old-time enemy, France, the colonists

undertook the sieges of Louisbourg, and helped to reduce Crown Point, and in the conquest of

Canada. By the time of the signing of the Peace of Paris in 1762, and the end of the Indian fighting

under the Rogers Rangers, the entire north country of New Hampshire was ready to be explored,

surveyed, and populated.

Governor Wentworth who, as if in anticipation of this opportunity, seems to have been well prepared

for it, had arranged the purchase for the sum of fifteen hundred pounds of the unauthenticated claims

of Robert Mason, heir of Captain John Mason. This was done through a group of twelve influential

citizens who called themselves the "Masonian Proprietors." Having done this, the governor kept the

land "within the province."

Governor Wentworth, with all or most of the Masonian Proprietors as his councilors, then proceeded

to grant towns to prospective settlers as equally as possible. In addition to the thirty-eight towns

already granted, more than a hundred others followed after the year 1761. These towns contained

lots available to more than thirty thousand families, many from the older towns in southern New

Hampshire and Massachusetts, but many from other neighboring states. Some of these towns were

located in Vermont, to be released later by a court order, which made the western shore of the

Connecticut River the state boundary line.

While the new towns were occasionally given the names of the leading grantees, not a few of them

bore the historic names of English royalty, frequently those of friends and relatives of Governor

Wentworth and his own royal family, the Rockinghams, in England. Many of the beneficiaries were

soldiers who had fought in the Indian wars, while a few were of Dutch origin, such as might settle from

New York in New Hampshire.

The terms of the grants were simple. The Proprietors could convey only the soil, while the political

rights and powers of government came from the province. Provision was made that no land should be

subject to taxation or assessment until improved by those holding the titles. Rights were reserved for

land for roads, churches and schools, to be built within a definite period of time, for the use of ministers

and in many cases for mill-rights. Fees were nominal, often only a shilling or an ear of corn a year. All

tall pines should be saved for the King’s navy.

Benning Wentworth died in 1770. He was succeeded by his nephew who later became Sir John

Wentworth, the last of the royal governors. He is perhaps best known because of his purchase of a

thirty six mile tract of land on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee where he established an estate known

as Kingswood. It afterward become Wolfeborough.

Governor Sir John Wentworth’s beneficial acts to the state included the building of roads, including

one from Portsmouth to Kingswood; publishing the first accurate state map; organizing the State

militia, a member of which was Major Benjamin Thompson of Concord who afterward became known

as Count Rumford; his help in founding Dartmouth College; and the building of Wentworth House, now

owned by the State. Loyal to the English crown, he embarked for Nova Scotia at the beginning of the

Revolution, there to become its lieutenant governor until his death in 1820.

A pre-Revolution event occurring in New Hampshire was the removal in 1774, by a small party of

patriots at New Castle, of the powder and guns at Fort William and Mary. Other Revolutionary events

included New Hampshire’s participation in the Battle of Bunker Hill at which nearly all the troops doing

the actual fighting were said to have been from this State; the signing of the Declaration of

Independence by New Hampshire’s Josiah Bartlett, Matthew Thornton, and William Whipple; General

John Stark’s victory at the Battle of Bennington; and the success of Captain John Paul Jones at sea.

Just as it was the first to declare its independence and adopt its own constitution, New Hampshire

was the ninth and deciding state in accepting the National Constitution as that of a republic, never to

be known under any other form of government. New Hampshire’s John Langdon was the first acting

vice-president of the United States, and was President of the Senate when Washington was elected

first president.

Many events have helped to individualize New Hampshire’s unique history as the decades have

followed each other down to the present time. Both Washington and Lafayette passed within our

borders. Meshech Weare was elected the first state "president". Morey’s Connecticut River steam-

oat preceded Fulton’s by seventeen years. An American President, Franklin Pierce, and a Vice

president, Henry Wilson, were elected, both from New Hampshire. Daniel Webster won his famous

Dartmouth College case before the Supreme Court. The first American public library was established

at Peterborough. The world-recognized "Concord Coach" was made here, as was America’s first

cog-railroad to Mount Washington dating 1869.

Statesmen, educators, inventors, preachers, scientists, explorers, authors, industrialists, engineers,

lawyers, diplomats, are all arrayed in the long line of notables New Hampshire claims as coming from

her soil.


 

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