[1] Pannaway Plantation was settled on land that is now in Odiorne Point State Park in the town of Rye.
When John Mason was granted a colony to start in British America, he was granted the land from south on up to where the Piscataqua River flows into the Atlantic Ocean, while Ferdinando Gorges claimed the land north of the river, in what is now Maine.
In July 1623, Thomas Weston of the Weymouth Colony was shipwrecked off today's North Hampton, a few miles south of Pannaway.
Thompson disappeared in 1628, and his wife later remarried to Samuel Maverick, one of the first slave traders in the colony.
By 1630, Strawbery Banke was proven to be more secure of a location from the Indians, and the settler Walter Neale invited them to come in.