What Happened To Thomas Morton And His Groups At The Plantation Merrymount

In the course of events that had occurred at the plantation Merrymount, there were two sides of these events. One side consisted of separatists (puritans) who were very strict of their practices and morals. They were the type of group who would go above and beyond to live by their morals and if some other group amongst them did not live by those morals, they would go above and beyond to show the other group what happens when they do not live a certain way. That is what happened to Thomas Morton and his group in the events at Merrymount. Thomas Morton, a man of strong leadership, demonstrates how he thought the Separatists to be overbearing in their religion and morals. He would go as far to say that they are ridiculous and annoying in their

“…which his puritan neighbors sarcastically called ‘Merrymount’” (167). According Morton, they would befriend the natives that lived near his plantation and would make deals (trading) with them. He once invited the native to join their part and to drink with them and socialize with Morton’s group. On the first day of May, the people of Ma-re Mount, who believed and referenced a lot of Greek and Roman Mythology, would bring a Maypole to the center of the plantation and the people would sing songs with a variety of instruments that were present at the time. Once the puritans heard of such practices, they were immediately alarmed and sought to end these events. The puritans headed towards Wollaston’s plantation with the intent to end all activities, but the puritans are known for some practices themselves. “This harmless mirth made by young men (that lived in hope to have wives brought over to them, that would save them a labor to make a voyage to fetch any over) was much distasted of the precise Separatists that keep much ado about the tithe of mint and cummin, troubling their brains more than reason would require about things that are indifferent, and from that time [they] sought occasion against my honest host of Ma-re Mount, to overthrow his undertakings and to destroy his plantation quite and clean” (171). This passage in the book shows how

It was not smart of Morton to do such things, but he did not know what he was getting himself into. He was so high up in authority that he did not care what he did or what the consequence of his actions would be, until one day when people of the king came to arrested him and take him back to England to face the king in punishment. They sought that Morton was being a man of unnecessary power and authority. Bradford thought Morton to be abusing his power and teaching natives things that could be dangerous once