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Thomas Morton (1576) was an avid Elizabethan outdoors man probably born in Devon who became an attorney for The Council for New England, and built the New England fur-trading-plantation called Ma-Re Mount or Merrymount around a West Country-style Maypole, much to the displeasure of Pilgrim and Puritan colonists. Morton wrote a 1637 book New English Canaan about his experiences, partly in verse, and may have been America's first poet to write in English.
He died in1647 in Maine
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