New Hampshire was founded in 1623 by John Mason, it was a planned colony. It derives its name from the Hampshire County in England, and was first applied to the territory in 1629, in honor of Captain John Mason, Governor of Portsmouth, in Hampshire, England. New Hampshire one of the thirteen colonies are grouped, according to the form of government, into three classes the Charter, the Royal, and the Proprietary but recently criticism has reduced these three forms to two, the Corporation and the Provincial. The corporation was identical with the charter form, and at the opening of the Revolution there were but three, including Massachusetts the other two being Rhode Island and Connecticut. The provincial forms included the proprietary colonies, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, and the royal colonies, Virginia, the Carolinas, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, and Georgia.
In the agricultural department New Hampshire mainly industrialized on potatoes, fishing, textiles, and shipbuilding. Fishing was important, John mason sent settlers to the new territory to create a fishing colony. During 1623 John Mason sent David Thomson, a Scotsman, and Edward and Thomas Hilton, fish-merchants from London, with a number of other people in two divisions to establish a fishing colony in New Hampshire, at Piscataqua River. The Piscataqua River runs southeastward between the states of New Hampshire and Maine, and flows into the Atlantic Ocean east of Hampshire. One of these divisions, under Thomson, settled near the river’s mouth at a place they called Little Harbor or "Pannaway", now the town of Rye, where they erected salt-drying fish racks and a "factory" or stone house. The other division under the Hilton brothers set up their fishing stages on a neck of land eight miles above, which they called Northam, afterwards named Dover. Captain Mason died in 1635, just before his proposed trip to the new country which he never saw. He had invested more than twenty-two thousand...