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31 de may. de 2024 · Portsmouth, city, Rockingham county, southeastern New Hampshire, U.S., across the Piscataqua River from Kittery, Maine, on the Atlantic coast. It is New Hampshire’s oldest settlement, second oldest city, first capital, and only seaport. In 1623 a fishing settlement was built at the river’s mouth.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 2 días · In January 1776, it became the first of the British North American colonies to establish an independent government and state constitution; six months later, it signed the United States Declaration of Independence and contributed troops, ships, and supplies in the war against Britain.
31 de may. de 2024 · When Native Americans burned Mendon in 1675, Thomson was among the first settlers to return and rebuild. History strongly suggests that John Thomson was the first Englishman born in New Hampshire and, therefore, the first white settler born in Portsmouth.
31 de may. de 2024 · Sanborn’s History of New Hampshire was published in 1875 two years before the founding of the Granite Monthly magazine. We have added paragraph breaks that are not in the original. NH historians often compare the well known founding of the Bay Colony to the relatively unknown start of New Hampshire.
29 de may. de 2024 · New Hampshire was one of the original Thirteen Colonies and was admitted as a state on June 21, 1788. Before it declared its independence, New Hampshire was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain. The original 1776 Constitution of New Hampshire did not provide for a chief executive.
Hace 3 días · The city of Dover has a long and colorful history spanning nearly four centuries. Its earliest days as a colonial seaport led to a successful shipbuilding industry in the 1700s, and it flourished in the 19th century as the nation's leading manufacturer of cotton goods.
30 de may. de 2024 · New Hampshire’s seaport, Portsmouth, was founded by mistake. Captain John Mason, the primary English investor in the colony at Strawbery Banke, pinned his hopes on bad information. Mason was looking for a shortcut to an imaginary place called "The Lake of the Iroquois."
