Thomas Morton

<p>Had Massachusetts bay colony charter revoked.&nbsp;</p>

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Lawyer.&nbsp;</p>

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Jewish&nbsp;</p>

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Puritan&nbsp;</p>

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Pagan&nbsp;</p>

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Promotes drugs like Tim Leary.&nbsp;</p>

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Leary is Morton and Cotton Mathers combined.&nbsp;</p>

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And Morton became lord of misrule, and maintained (as it were) a schoole of Athisme.&nbsp; And after they had gott some good into their hands, and gott much by trading with y e &nbsp;Indeans, they spent it as vainly, in quaffing & drinking both wine & strong waters in great exsess, and, as some reported, 10li . worth in a&nbsp; morning.&nbsp; They allso set up a May-pole, drinking and dancing aboute it many days togeather, inviting the Indean women, for their consorts, dancing and frisking togither, (like so many fairies, or furies rather,) and worse practises.&nbsp; As if they had anew revived & celebrated the feasts of ye Roman Goddes Flora, or ye beasly practieses of ye madd Bacchinalians.&nbsp; Morton likwise (to shew his poetrie) compose sundry&nbsp; rimes & verses, tending to lasciviousness, and others to ye &nbsp;detraction & scandall of some persons, which he affixed to this idle or idoll May-polle.&nbsp; They chainged allso the name of their place, and in stead of calling it Mounte Wollaston, they call it Merie-mounte, [160] as if this joylity would have lasted ever.&nbsp; But this continued not long, for after Morton was sent for England, (as follows to be declared,)&nbsp; shortly after came over that worthy gentlman, Mr. John Indecott, who brought over a patent under ye broad seall, for ye govermente of ye Massachusets, who&nbsp; visiting those parts caused yt &nbsp;May-polle to be cutt&nbsp; downe, and rebuked them for their profannes, and&nbsp; admonished them to looke ther should be better walk-ing; so they now, or others, changed ye &nbsp;name of their&nbsp; place againe, and called it Mounte-Dagon.&nbsp;</p>