Merry Mount
Americannoun
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Even as the Puritans were striving to build an austere theocracy in New England, they were defied by a character named Thomas Morton, whose Merry Mount colonists disported themselves in free-spirited revelry.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2014
Consider those maimed excuses for Merry Mount that have come to serve, ever so ineptly, as its substitute.
From Time Magazine Archive
Merry Mount is anathema to the Puritans because it is an enclave of happiness, fostering a live-and-let-live philosophy, indulging in such rites as dancing around the Maypole.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were not simply being "Puritanical" and self-righteous in their attacks against the scoundrel of Merry Mount.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wollaston lot that followed Morton to Merry Mount were but the forerunners of hundreds of others.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse
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