New Hampshire Candidates for Senator
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New Hampshire Candidates for Senator |
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New Hampshire Presidential Primary: February 9, 2016
Election Day: November 8, 2016
New Hampshire Senator Candidates
State Primary: September 13, 2016
New Hampshire U.S. Senator:
New Hampshire Congressional Candidates 2016 Republican and Democrat
District 1:
Frank Guinta (R)
Dan Innis (R)
Jamieson Gradert (R)
Pam Tucker (R)
Shawn O'Connor (D)
Carol Shea-Porter (D)
District 2:
Annie Kuster (D)
Jack Flanagan (R)
The colony that became the state of New Hampshire was founded on the division in 1629 of a land grant given seven years previously by the Council for New England to Captain John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges (who founded Maine). The colony was named New Hampshire 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".
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. The settlers built a fort, manor house and other buildings, some for fish processing, on Flake Hill. They called the settlement Pannaway Plantation. In 1623 the English explorer Christopher Levett, an associate of Gorges and a member of the Council for New England, wrote of visiting Thomson at his Pannaway Plantation. The first native New Hampshirite, John Thompson, was born there. (Note: this was the conclusion of several early historians. However, we now know that John Thompson was baptised at St. Andrew's Parish in Plymouth, England in 1619. New Hampshire was one of the original 13 colonies.
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