Thomas Morton
Thomas Morton Send to Google Classroom: Thomas Morton (l. c. 1579-1647 CE) was an English lawyer, poet, writer, and an early colonist of North America who established the utopian community of Merrymount, sparking conflict with his separatist neighbors at Plymouth Colony and the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony between c. 1626-1645 CE. He is best known for his three-volume work New English Canaan, published in 1637 CE, which criticized Puritancolonization of North America, praised Native American culture, and satirized some of the best-known figures of Plymouth Colony, notably Captain Myl...
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