Colonizing New Hampshire

***During today's episode, you may hear intermittent audio crackling. That is on our end.***

Not many people are aware of the fact that New Hampshire was the third colony to be successfully established, mainly because it was not formally organized until several decades later. In today's episode, we discuss how the early New Hampshire colonies came to be and the differences between these New Hampshire colonies and Jamestown/Plymouth.

1622/1629 Patent Map courtesy of: By Decumanus at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11123499
Read “Notes on the Recently Discovered Indenture Relating to David Thomson”: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AAR8205.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext
More on Captain Mason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mason_(governor)
More on David Thompson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thompson_(New_Hampshire_settler)
More on Ferdinando Gorges: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinando_Gorges
More on the Council of New England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_New_England
Read the Minutes of the Council of New England: https://archive.org/details/recordsofcouncil00coun/mode/2up
More on Rye, New Hampshire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye,_New_Hampshire
More on New Castle, New Hampshire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Castle,_New_Hampshire
Thompson Island aerial image courtesy of: https://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/2507164419/
Fife and Drum by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3748-fife-and-drum
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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