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Captain John Mason ( 1586– 1635) was born in Norfolk. He was a sailor, explorer, cartographer and colonizer and appointed the second Proprietary Governor of Newfoundland's Cuper's Cove colony in 1615, succeeding John Guy. Mason arrived on the island in 1616 and explored much of the territory, mapping the island for the first time and writing a book on his findings. He returned to England after becoming tired of mediating disputes between settlers and migratory fishermen. Mason ceased to be Cuper's Cove governor in 1621 and was not replaced. The colony was ultimately abandoned by its settlers, possibly as late as the early 18th century.

In 1621 Mason moved to New England and consulted with Sir William Alexander about possibly colonizing Nova Scotia. In 1622, Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges received a patent from the Council for New England for all the territory lying between the MerrimackThe Merrimack River (sometimes spelled Merrimac River is a 110-mile-long (177-kilometer-long) river in the northeastern United States. It rises in central New Hampshire at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers, flows southward into M and KennebecThe Kennebec River is a river, 150 mi (240 km) long, in the state of Maine in the northeastern United States. It rises in Moosehead Lake in northern Maine and flows southward past the cities of Madison, Skowhegan, Waterville, the state capital Augusta, an rivers. In 1629Events March 4 Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter. June 4: The VOC ship Batavia runs aground west of Australia. March 10 Charles I of England dissolves Parliament starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament. End of they divided the grant along the Piscataqua RiverPortsmouth, New Hampshire The Piscataqua River is a river in the northeastern United States. It is a 12 mi (19 km) long tidal estuary formed by the confluence of the Salmon Falls and Cocheco rivers, and flows southeastward, forming part of the boundary be, with Mason receiving the southern portion. The colony was recharted as the Province of New HampshireThe New Hampshire Colony was the product of several English land grants dating from 1623 to 1680, and for much of its colonial history was subject to the Massachusetts Colony and its leadership in Boston. The colony's first settlements were at Little Harb. It included most of the southeastern part of the current statestate is any one of the 50 states which have membership of the federation known as the United States of America (USA or U. The separate state governments and the U. federal government share sovereignty. The United States Constitution allocates power betwe of New HampshireNew Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the United States (U. postal abbreviation NH , named for the English county of Hampshire. New Hampshire is called the "Granite State" because it has numerous granite quarries, although that industry ha, as well as portions of present-day MassachusettsMassachusetts is a state of the United States of America, part of the New England region. postal abbreviation is MA and its traditional abbreviation is Mass . It is properly called the Commonwealth of Massachusetts although there is no legal distinction b north of the Merrimack.

Mason was appointed first vice-admiral of New England in 1635 but died in December of the same year as he was about to return to his plantations there.

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