. Ruth of Boston; a story of the Massachusetts Bay colony . f where stands our village,had been, a few years before, a settlement which oneCaptain Wollaston began, and, tiring of the enterprise,went back to England, leaving there some few of hisfollowers, who were ungodly people. This Thomas Morton, believing himself held in tooclose restraint at Plymouth, sought out these people atWollaston, and became one of them, to the shame andreproach of all godly-minded people in this New changed the name of the village to Merry Mount;was chosen leader of the company there, and made ofthe place
. Ruth of Boston; a story of the Massachusetts Bay colony . f where stands our village,had been, a few years before, a settlement which oneCaptain Wollaston began, and, tiring of the enterprise,went back to England, leaving there some few of hisfollowers, who were ungodly people. This Thomas Morton, believing himself held in tooclose restraint at Plymouth, sought out these people atWollaston, and became one of them, to the shame andreproach of all godly-minded people in this New changed the name of the village to Merry Mount;was chosen leader of the company there, and made ofthe place a perfect Sodom. It is said, so I have heard my father say, that theyhad no religious services, save now and then, when in aspirit of wickedness this Thomas Morton read fromthe prayer book. He increased the number of hisfollowing by enticing the servants away from the goodfolks of Plymouth. It gave much offence to them that such a villageshould be in the land where they had come to setup the true worship of God, therefore Captain Miles 102 RUTH OF BOSTON. Standish, a soldier of Plymouth, went with a force ofmen to Merry Mount, seized this Thomas Morton, andsent him to England that he might answer for hiscrimes to the London Company. PUNISHING THOMAS MORTON What happened there my father does not know; butcertain it is that when the Lyon came on her secondvoyage, she brought among her passengers this same PUNISHING THOMAS MORTON 103 Thomas Morton, and from the moment he arrivedour people had trouble with him. He brought considerable property in the way offirearms, powder and shot, and, without asking per-mission from the chief men of our town, set abouttrading these goods with the Indians for furs, as hehad done at Merry Mount, which was not only amenace to all the white people in this new country,because of furnishing the savages with arms that mightbe used to kill us, but directly against the law whichforbade trafficking with the Indians. He must have been a wicked man indeed,
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