The Province of New Hampshire traces its origin to a 1629 land grant to John Mason, and was governed as part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1641 to 1679, when King Charles II issued a charter separating it into its own royal province under President John Cutt. It was absorbed into the Dominion of New England from 1686 to 1689 before separating from Massachusetts a second time under a new royal charter enacted in 1692. New Hampshire ended as a royal province in 1776, when it established an independent state government, becoming, by its own province's account, the first former colony to formally establish an independent government, in January of that year. As a colony governed under royal charter, it is grouped here among Kingdoms and Principalities, the closest available classification for a crown dependency pending a dedicated colonial-provinces category.
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In Era
Source Wikipedia: Province of New Hampshire
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Society and Culture Atlas: Monarchy, government type there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Province of New Hampshire
1691 charter section
William III and Mary II issued new, separate charters in 1691 for both Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Introduction
In 1776, the province established an independent state and government, the State of New Hampshire, and joined with twelve other colonies to form the United States.
In Era: The Early Modern Period, lead paragraph and infobox, existence dates
The Province of New Hampshire was an English colony and later a British province in New England.
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