The New Hampshire Colony
By, Dawson Reese
Founder and Important people
Fam. Ppl. : Thaddius C. Lowe(inventor) and Josiah Bartlett(politician involved with the constitution).
Need to know info!
Originally a fishing colony attached to Massachusetts
3rd colony to be founded, after Massachusetts gained a royal charter
Ethnic diversity!
Unassigned
16.9%
Dutch, French,
German, Irish
2.9%
English
70.5%
Scots-Irish
2.8%
Indigenous
0.6%
African
2.3%
Scots
4.0%
Who the respected and listened to!
Jobs!
People of New Hampshire were fishermen(Primary), cobblers, farmers, and shoemakers
Whats with the name?!
Named after Hampshire in England
A world of Firsts!
New Hampshire was the first to have a State constitution, a Free Library
Sources!!
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totallyhistory.com, n.d. Web. 10 Sep 2013.
Whitney, Quincy, James Garvin, Lynn Graton, and Dr.
Betty Belanus. "NH Firsts and Bests." NH.gov.
New Hampshire State Council of the Arts, n.d.
Web. 10 Sep 2013.
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Part II, Series Z
20–132 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1976).
"Famous People from New Hampshire." worldatlas.com.
Graphic Maps. Web. 12 Sep 2013.