<P> New Hampshire is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States . New Hampshire was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution . </P> <P> The colony that became the state of New Hampshire was founded on the division in 1629 of a land grant given in 1622 by the Council for New England to Captain John Mason (former governor of Newfoundland) and Sir Ferdinando Gorges (who founded Maine). The colony was named New Hampshire by Mason after the English county of Hampshire, one of the first Saxon shires . Hampshire was itself named after the port of Southampton, which was known previously as simply "Hampton". </P> <P> New Hampshire was first settled by Europeans at Odiorne's Point in Rye (near Portsmouth) by a group of fishermen from England under David Thompson in 1623, just three years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth . Early historians believed the first native - born New Hampshirite, John Thompson, was born there . </P>

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