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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