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John Mason (governor)

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Captain John Mason (1586–1635) was a sailor and colonizer born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, and educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. [1]

25 relations: Colony, Cuper's Cove, Ferdinando Gorges, James VI and I, John Guy (governor), Kennebec River, King's Lynn, Kingdom of England, Massachusetts, Merrimack River, New Hampshire, Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland Colony, Norfolk, Nova Scotia, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Piracy, Piscataqua River, Proprietary governor, Province of New Hampshire, Renews-Cappahayden, Robert Hayman, U.S. state, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, William Vaughan (writer).

Colony

In history, a colony is a territory under the immediate complete political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign.

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Cuper's Cove

Cuper's Cove, on the southwest shore of Conception Bay on Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula was an early English settlement in the New World, and the second one after Jamestown, Virginia to endure for longer than a year.

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Ferdinando Gorges

Sir Ferdinando Gorges (– 24 May 1647) was a naval and military commander and governor of the important port of Plymouth in England.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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John Guy (governor)

John Guy (25 December 1568 - 25 March 1629) was an English merchant adventurer, colonist and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1624.

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Kennebec River

The Kennebec River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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King's Lynn

King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn, is a seaport and market town in Norfolk, England, about north of London, north-east of Peterborough, north north-east of Cambridge and west of Norwich.

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Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England (French: Royaume d'Angleterre; Danish: Kongeriget England; German: Königreich England) was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the 10th century—when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms—until 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Merrimack River

The Merrimack River (or Merrimac River, an occasional earlier spelling) is a river in the northeastern United States.

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New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Newfoundland (island)

Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large Canadian island off the east coast of the North American mainland, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Newfoundland Colony

Newfoundland Colony was the name for an English and later British colony established in 1610 on the island of the same name off the Atlantic coast of Canada, in what is now the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia (Latin for "New Scotland"; Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh) is one of Canada's three maritime provinces, and one of the four provinces that form Atlantic Canada.

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Peterhouse, Cambridge

Peterhouse is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or properties.

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Piscataqua River

The Piscataqua River is a tidal river forming the boundary of the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Maine from its origin at the confluence of the Salmon Falls River and Cocheco River.

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Proprietary governor

A proprietary governor is an individual authorized to govern a proprietary colony.

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Province of New Hampshire

The Province of New Hampshire was a colony of England and later a British province in North America.

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Renews-Cappahayden

Renews–Cappahayden is a small fishing town on the southern shore of Newfoundland, 83 kilometres south of St. John's.

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Robert Hayman

Robert Hayman (14 August 1575 – November 1629) was a poet, colonist and Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling (c. 1567 in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire – 12 February 1640) was a Scottish courtier and poet who was involved in the Scottish colonisation of Habitation at Port-Royal, Nova Scotia and Long Island, New York.

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William Vaughan (writer)

Sir William Vaughan (c. 1575 – August 1641) was a Welsh writer in English and Latin, who promoted colonization in Newfoundland.

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John Mason (1586 - 1635), John Mason (British politician).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mason_(governor)

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