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The colony's first settlements were at Little Harbor , Dover , Portsmouth and Exeter . The settlement at Exeter was founded in 1638 by John Wheelwright , a disciple of Anne Hutchinson . John Wheelwright was sent by John Mason, who wished to send settlers to create a fishing colony. These towns agreed to unite in 1639 and in 1641 agreed to join with Massachusetts Colony. On January 1, 1680, New Hampshire was separated from the Massachusetts Colony, becoming a royal colony with a separate government. It was reunited with Massachusetts again in 1688, and separated it out one last time in 1691, at which point it became the royal Province of New Hampshire. Although New Hampshire did not get its own colonial governor until 1741, in 1631 Captain Thomas Wiggin served as the first governor of the province of the Upper Plantation of New Hampshire, comprising modern-day Dover, Durham and Stratham which ultimately became the royal Province of New Hampshire. The disputed New Hampshire Grants territory (New Hampshire claimed it, a judge awarded it to New York ) later became the state of Vermont . SEE ALSO
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