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Thomas Morton (c. 1579–1647) was an early colonist in North America from Devon, England.He was a lawyer, writer, and social reformer known for studying American Indian culture, and he founded the colony of Merrymount, located in Quincy, Massachusetts.
The term "Great Migration" can refer to the migration in the period of English Puritans to the New England Colonies, starting with Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1] They came in family groups rather than as isolated individuals and were mainly motivated by freedom to practice their beliefs. [2]
The Merrymount Colony, originally Mount Wollaston, was a short-lived English colony in New England founded by Richard Wollaston on the present site of Quincy, Massachusetts. After Wollaston died on a trip to Virginia , Thomas Morton led a rebellion, taking over the colony with the promise to share the profits equally.
With resupply and additional immigrants, it managed to endure, becoming America's first permanent English colony. [4] Once the settlement location was chosen, the company members opened sealed instructions containing the list of the previously chosen councillors of the Virginia Governor's Council.
The Antinomian Controversy, also known as the Free Grace Controversy, was a religious and political conflict in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. It pitted most of the colony's ministers and magistrates against some adherents of Puritan minister John Cotton.
Early Puritan leader Roger Conant led a group of settlers to found Salem, Massachusetts in 1626. Two of the Pilgrim settlers in Plymouth Colony—Robert Cushman and Edward Winslow—believed that Cape Ann would be a profitable location for a settlement. They therefore organized a company named the Dorchester Company and in 1622 sailed to ...
A small group of Pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620, seeking refuge from conflicts in England which led up to the English Civil War.. The Puritans, a much larger group than the Pilgrims, established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 with 400 settlers.
Palmer was likely born in England about 1585. He married in England and fathered five children. Recent research suggests that he was probably from Frampton, Dorset, England ("Walter Palmer of the Great Migration: Probable Origins in Frampton, Dorset," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, [Vol. 174 Winter 2020; pages 21-25]).