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c. 1579 - 1647Life of poet, writer, lawyer, and colonist Thomas Morton, founder of Merrymount Colony in North America.
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1626Thomas Morton drives Captain Wollaston from the colony of Mount Wollaston; founds new colony of Merrymount.
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1626 - 1628Merrymount Colony, under Thomas Morton, becomes the most lucrative and fastest-growing settlement in New England.
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1630 - 1633Thomas Morton sues Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony to have their charters revoked; legal briefs of the lawsuit become the drafts of his book New English Canaan.
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1637Publication of Thomas Morton's 3-Volume work New English Canaan.
