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The founders who left Europe to find the colony of New Hampshire did so for commercial reasons. Their main focus was economic and established fishing outposts and later a timber business. The first settlers in this area were the English and the Scots who came in the 17th century.

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{| |- | Roger Williams left England to search for religious freedom. The restrictive rules of the Massachusetts colony ended up with him being expelled. He settled in Rhode Island and founded a colony that had more religious tolerance than any of the others. |}

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They didn't, they were transplants from the Massachusetts Bay Colony whose Puritan Theocracy they found intolerable.

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um i think it was for a way to live better? eh?

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to go and have new place to have a family and have more babies to make it big enough to rule the world

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