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The Trials of Thomas Morton

An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England
  • Peter C. Mancall
2019
Yale University Press

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Illustration of Thomas Morton of Merrymount being arrested by Myles Standish of the Plymouth Colony
Book Review

Pranksters and Puritans

Why Thomas Morton seems to have taken particular delight in driving the Pilgrims and Puritans out of their minds.
by Christopher Benfey via New York Review of Books on February 15, 2021

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How America's First Banned Book Survived and Became an Anti-Authoritarian Icon

The Puritans outlawed Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan" because it was critical of the society they were building in colonial New England.
by Colleen Connolly via Smithsonian Magazine on October 2, 2023
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