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Merry Mount: see Morton, Thomas Morton, Thomas, fl. 1622–47, English trader and adventurer in New England. He visited New England in 1622 and returned in 1625 with Captain Wollaston, who founded a settlement at Mt. Wollaston (now Quincy, Mass.).
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colonists frolic around Maypole, causing Morton’s arrest. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 543]

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