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ID: 7007564
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Record Type: administrative |
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New Hampshire (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 44 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 44.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 071 40 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -71.6667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Region was explored by French and English in early 17th cen.; was included in land grant to John Mason in 1629; had long boundary feud with Massachusetts and New York; fought in Revolution and was strongly pro-Union. |
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| New Hampshire (preferred,C,V)
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............ | used from 1629, after the county of Hampshire, England, the original home of Captain John Mason, early owner of New Hampshire |
| NH (C,V,USPS)
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| state (preferred, B) |
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since June 21, 1788 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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