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Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New England -- History
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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KalkhoIfCo.,N. Y- Birches beside Lake WinnepesaukeeEarly New Hampshire NEW HAMPSHIRE and its seaport are indebtedfor their names to Captain John Mason, an Eng-lish merchant and shipmaster to whom the region wasgranted by the king in 1629. The name of the colonywas suggested by that of a county in southern England, 247 248 New England where Mason lived for years as mayor of the city ofPortsmouth. The first settlements were made in 1623 at Dover,a few miles up the Piscataqua, and Rye on the coast.A scattered settlement established somewhat later atthe mouth of the river received the odd name of Straw-berry Bank. Mason sent over implements and arms,food and clothing, cattle, and laborers; and he says,in a letter written in 1634, that for his outlay he hadnever received one penny. In 1639 there were four primitive little towns in thecolony. Within the next few years these were takenone at a time under the protection of Massachusetts,and New Hampshire did not have a separate organi-zation

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