MERRY MOUNT
\mˈɛɹi mˈa͡ʊnt], \mˈɛɹi mˈaʊnt], \m_ˈɛ_ɹ_i m_ˈaʊ_n_t]\
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A settlement on Massachusetts Bay instituted by Thomas Morton and a band of unruly followers shortly after the landing of the Pilgrims (1625). In 1628 John Endicott, one of the six patentees of the Bay colony, visited the Merry Mount settlement and broke it up by force, "caused their May-pole to be cut down, rebuked them for their profaneness, admonished them to look there should be better walking." Morton was in England at that time..
By John Franklin Jameson
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