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New Hampshire

 
Place Names: New Hampshire
  • Location: USA
A state. The land here was granted by King Charles I to Captain John Mason in the 1620s and in 1629 he named it after his home county in England. It became a colony in its own right in 1679 and a state in 1776. It was the ninth to ratify the constitution in 1788.

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