New+Hampshire

I. Leaders
Leaders were John Mason, David Thomson, Edward Hilton, William Hilton, John Cutt, Benning Wentworth, and John Wentworth.

III. Grown/ Occupations
The main three crops were corn, beans, and pumpkins. Occupations were fishing, shipbuilding, and farming.

IV. Made/ Occupations
They made tools, guns, knifes, and ships. Thier occupations were shipbuilding, fishing, and farming.

V. Natural resources/ Geography
The natural resources are trees, fish, bear, deer, wild turkey, and moose. 

VI. Problems and Difficulties
The winters were very cold in New Hamshire. Only 1,000 settlers were in New Hampshire

VII. Life in the colonies
= A. Clothing = Clothing was mostly made of flax. Only have two pairs of clothing, one for everyday use and one for special days and Sundays. Women and girls wore bonnets. Fancy men's coat and woman's dress were rare because the fabric was expensive, the clothes took many hours to be made by hand and only wealthy can afford it. Breeches and stockings were more popular than long pants. It took lots of skill to make craft wigs and people in upper class wore them everyday. A three-cornered wool felt was typical for colonial America. A top coat, waistcoast, frilly blouse, breeches, stockings, and silver-buckled leather shoes are clothes for the wealthy. = B. Education = = = = C. Government = = =

VII.I Relationships with Natives
When first English settlers come to New Hampshire, they lived in peace with the Abenaki Indians. The Indians taught them how to grow corn since the Europeans were unfamiliar. Indians said to plant the corn when the leaves of the white oak are as big as the ear of a mouse. Also, they taught how to build canoes, snowshoes, and how to get maple syrup. Indians showed the methods of hunting, planting, tanning animal hides, and trapping.

IX. Slavery
Slaves wore simple clothing, an apron, and a hat as an outfit for a field slave.

X. Interesting other tidbits
One common way to grow crops is called The Three Sisters.

XI. Food
Succotash, an indian dish, was made of cooked beans and corn mixed together. Colonists and indians made this dish. They had three main crops and they were corn, beans, and pumpkins. Other than that, the colonists grew wheat, barley, oats, peas, potatoes, apples, and pears. The pears and apples provided food and drink. From apples, there was cider that some families drank every meal. Pears were made into a drink called Perry that was also popular. Both drinks were alchoholic drinks.