Native American longhouses were large homes designed for multiple families. They were especially popular among the tribes who lived in the northern United States, although many tribes used longhouses, partly as protection against the elements, and partly as a way to bind several families together into a tribe.uropeans who came to the US wrote about Native American longhouses in their diaries and letters. They often described at length how these longhouses looked and how they were built. The Native American oral tradition also gives much information about longhouses. Many longhouses were excavated and are somewhat intact.
Fort William and Mary in 1705. 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).
new hampshire derives its name from hampshire county in england and was first applied to the territory in 1629 in honor of captain john mason governor of portsmouth in hampshire england and also the proprietor of the territory now so calledor several years both massachusetts and new hampshire were ruled by one governor at the time of the revolution in england in 1689 when governor andros was seized and imprisoned in massachusetts the people of new hampshire assuming the government again placed themselves under the jurisdiction of that colony