Morton, Thomas, 1575-1646
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Name (Latin)
Morton, Thomas, 1575-1646
Date of birth
1575
Date of death
1646
Gender
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File:A popular history of the United States, from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states, page 425.jpg
New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and company, publisher, Public domain
File:Maypole at Merrymount.jpg
Unknown author, Public domain
File:New English Canaan, or, New Canaan containing an abstract of New England, composed in three bookes.jpg
Amsterdam: Jacob Frederick Stam, publisher
, Public domain
File:Thomas Morton of Merrymount arrested by Captain Myles Standish of the Plymouth Colony.jpg
New York: American book company, publisher, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
Thomas Morton (c. 1579–1647) was an early colonist in North America from Devon, England. He was a lawyer, writer, and social reformer known for studying American Indian culture, and he founded the colony of Merrymount, located in Quincy, Massachusetts. He is the author of New English Canaan, an anti-Puritan work that was the first book banned the present-day United States.
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