New Hampshire

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Notes:
-Born in Dover in 1623
-Largely Irish, English and French
-Has largest percentage of French/French-Canadian residents than any other state. (Gets along with Vermont.)
-One of the only people who never forgets Canada or fails to notice him (None of the states ever confuse Canada for America although a lot of the states forget he exists). He purchases a lot of his electricity from Quebec and they've also collaborated a few times when doing research on open ocean agriculture.
-First colony to create his own constitution independent of Britian, but he apparently didn't intend to throw off Britian's rule at the time. (I need to make sure about this one... seems kind of like a lot of the original 13 states claim a lot of similar things.) Some people assert that even though Rhode Island was the first to officially renounce his alliance to England, it was actually New Hampshire who first declared independence.
-State Motto: "Live free or die." (Pretty hardcore...)
-Loves all winter sports and has amazingly beautiful leaves during the fall. Also a fan of NASCAR. (New Hampshire Motor Speedway)
-Originally lived on his own and spent much of his time fishing. However, there were many times where he was forced to go live at Massachusetts' house off and on again. Need the details of what caused all this back and forthness, but he was basically a freeloader in some ways. XD
-Primaries
-Funny story: A college experimentally set up an interacial school in 1835, but New Hampshire wasn't quite ready yet for something so radical (even though Abolition was fairly popular at the time) so he dragged the building into a swamp with oxen and set it on fire. (Hardcore... Sounds like this sort of thing wasn't all that uncommon in New England when people tried to set up interracial schools.)
-Sold Vermont his land (this lead to a dispute between Vermont and New York because New York claimed that land actually had belonged to him.)
-His state fruit is a pumpkin! I'm not sure why I find this so funny. I don't think squashes are fruits, are they?
-New Hampshire was where the treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese war was signed. He's the only state to host a meeting that formally ended a foriegn war. (1905)
-Home of America's Stonehenge! It's a 4000 year old stone structure that no one knows what it's for, but it's pretty cool.
-Virginia's John Smith supposedly named New Hampshire. (Not sure if this is true)
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