USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -However, in 1621, Mason was in New England consulting with Sir William Alexander about the possible colonization of Nova Scotia and with Sir Ferdinando Gorges about founding a colony in the province of Maine. He founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1629, and in 1635 he was appointed first vice-admiral of New England.

Detailed explanation-2: -He named this land after his home county in England, Hampshire. Mason planned to bring his wife and newborn baby with him when he and a group of settlers came to the New World in 1635. They planned to make money from all the fish in the waters off New Hampshire’s coast.

Detailed explanation-3: -MASON, JOHN, sailor, explorer, cartographer, colonizer, second governor of the first English colony in Newfoundland and founder of New Hampshire; b. 1586 at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, son of John and Isabella Mason; d. in London, 1635.

Detailed explanation-4: -New Hampshire Exploration and Colonial History The Vikings may have been the first Europeans to visit the area now known as New Hampshire. The first recorded visitor was English mariner Martin Pring, who sailed up the Piscataqua River in June 1603, followed in 1605 by French explorer Samuel de Champlain.