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New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New England was founded by several different people. John Winthrop was one of the people that founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thomas Hooker founded the Connecticut Colony, and John Mason founded the New Hampshire Colony. Two of the founders of the Rhode Island Colony were Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams. Of course, all of these people had help from other settlers in getting these colonies to grow and prosper.
While they were mostly Church of England it was not founded by a religious group or for religious motivations.
Hampshire in England (or did you mean New Hampshire in former colonial America?) came into beong in Anglo-Saxon times, along with most English counties.
Captain John Wheelwright founded New Hampshire in 1638
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Why was New England Colony Founded?new England was founded because people wanted freedom to have there own religion.
In 1614, John Smith explored what is now New Hampshire. By 1623, settlers founded New Hampshire's first permanent non-Indian town. Today that town is Hover. John Mason named New Hampshire in 1629 after Hampshire, England. In 1641, it was part of Massachusetts, but by 1680 it was made a colony by New England
New Hampshire
The settlers of New Hampshire which were people from Europe and New England.
the colony that became the state of New Hampshire was founded on the division in 1629 of a land grant given seven years previously by the Council for New England to Captain John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges (who founded Maine). The colony was named New Hampshire after the English county ofHampshire, one of the first Saxon shires. Hampshire was itself named after the port of Southampton, which was known previously as simply "Hampton".