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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Hampshire, (search)
distinct province, with John Cutts, of Portsmouth, president......Sept. 8, 1679 Royal commission declaring New Hampshire a royal province reaches Portsmouth......Jan. 1, 1680 President Cutts dies, and is succeeded by Maj. Richard Waldron, of Dover......April 5, 1681 Mason surrenders one-fifth of his quit rents from the province to Charles II., and thus secures the appointment of Edward Cranfield as lieutenant-governor, with extraordinary powers and devoted to his interests......Jan. 25, 1682 Cranfield suspends Waldron and Richard Martyn, both popular leaders, from the council......May 15, 1682 Edward Gove, voicing the popular feeling against Governor Cranfield, with a tumultuous body from Exeter and Hampton, declares for liberty and reform. Finding the people not yet ready for revolt, he surrenders, is convicted of high treason, and imprisoned in the Tower of London......1683 People, called upon by the governor to take leases from Mason, refuse to acknowledge his c