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).
These battles finally came to a head in the mid-18th century when a dispute with New York over the New Hampshire Grants territory led to rebellion. As a result, the colony was the first to establish an independent government on Jan. 5, 1776. In 1777, they declared the New Hampshire Grants an independent state and named it Vermont.