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	Mount Wollaston Information
		Mount Wollaston, also known as Merrymount, is a neighborhood in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA, the birthplace of presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
		Mount Wollaston was also the home of William and Anne Hutchinson following their emigration from England in 1636.
		William and Eunice Cole first settled in Mount Wollaston upon their arrival from England, and were granted two acres of land on February 20, 1637, though they left for Exeter, New Hampshire before the year was out.
	www.bookrags.com /Mount_Wollaston (730 words)

	The Settlement of Braintree
		The Settlement of Braintree, MA The first English settlement in the area that is now Braintree, MA, was by a Captain Wollaston, who in 1625 with a company of thirty or forty colonists, cleared the land and built log-huts on the seaward slopes of the hills in what is now the city of Quincy.
		Morton was most definitely not a Puritan and the revelry and "loose morals" of the men at Merry Mount shocked the Pilgrims in nearby Plymouth-they even had the audacity to erect a Maypole and dance and frolic with Indian women.
		In 1640 the General Court granted the petition of the inhabitants of Mount Wollaston to be a town separate from Boston and the town was renamed Braintree.
	brownellfamily.rootsweb.com /Braintree.html (682 words)

	History
		The Parish Meeting House of Mount Wollaston was founded in 1639 straddling the Boston to Plymouth highway, and by its incorporation in 1640 the town’s name was changed to "Braintree".
		All village meetings were held at the Meeting House from 1707 to 1830, and the building alternated with Mount Wollaston Meeting House for Braintree-wide town meetings from 1707 until 1754, when the Middle Parish became the permanent home of Town Meeting for all three Parishes until 1792.
		Mount Wollaston became the town of Quincy in 1792 and Cochato became the town of Randolph in 1793.
	www.firstchurchbraintree.com /history.htm (1630 words)

	Quincy Massachusetts
		Wollaston moved on, leaving behind the name "Mount Wollaston." Thomas Morton, who followed in Wollaston's footprints from England in search of riches, renamed the area "Ma-re Mount," or Merrymount, as it is now known, when he arrived a few months later.
		The town was incorporated by the Massachusetts General Court in honor of Colonel John Quincy, an eminent citizen who resided on Mount Wollaston.
		The Wollaston area absorbed much of the growth as the remaining Indians were displaced by rapid residential development.
	ci.quincy.ma.us /profile.asp (1779 words)

	Braintree, Mass. Vital Records
		The first European settlement was probably that of Captain Wollaston, who in 1625 with a group of colonists, cleared some land in what is now the city of Quincy.
		Wollaston and most of the settlers remained for only about one year and then left for Virginia.
		After Wollaston's departure, Thomas Morton assumed leadership of the colony and renamed it Merry Mount.
	www.gwest.org /braintree.htm (394 words)

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		The other was formed by a trading-party under the lead of one Captain Wollaston, who settled within the limits of the present town of Quincy on a low hill near the shore, which still bears the name of the leader.
		Wollaston himself soon became dissatisfied and departed for Virginia, where he disposed of his indented servants and sent back for more, the trade in human beings having proved profitable.
		While better men are forgotten, Morton and Merry Mount stand out with a glow of colour against the dark background of suffering which makes up the story of the first years of New England settlement, and are still freshly remembered among the descendants of the very men who brought Morton himself to punishment.
	bos-gw.rays-place.com /boston-ch1.htm (3985 words)

	John Endecott - LoveToKnow 1911
		By his associates Endecott was entrusted with the responsibility of leading the first colonists to the region, and with some sixty persons proceeded to Naumkeag (later Salem) where Roger Conant, a seceder from the colony at Plymouth, had begun a settlement two years earlier.
		Endecott experienced some trouble with the previous settlers and with Thomas Morton's settlement at "Merry Mount" (Mount Wollaston, now Quincy), where, in accordance with his strict Puritanical tenets, he cut down the maypole and dispersed the merry makers.
		In the years immediately following he continued to take a prominent part in the affairs of the colony, serving as an assistant and as a military commissioner, and commanding, although with little success, an expedition against the Pequots in 1636.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Endecott (471 words)

	Merry Mount
		Wollaston made a trip from there to Virginia where he sold several of his servants.
		One of Wollaston's companions on the trip was Thomas Morton.
		Not far from Merry Mount was a settlement of Puritans, most dismal wretches, who said their prayers before daylight, and then wrought in the forest or the cornfield till evening made it prayer time again..
	www.macthoy.org /history/merrymount.htm (446 words)

	HUSTED FAMILY TIMELINE
		[Mount Wollaston], Massachusetts in those days was a larger area and was setteled in 1625 by a Captain Wollaston and others in what is now the city of Quincy.
		In 1640 the Massachusetts Bay Colony General Court granted the petition of the inhabitants of Mount Wollaston to be a town separate from Boston and the town was renamed Braintree with land grants from eight to 500 acres were made to inhabitants of the town.
		Robert Husted was granted 32 acres of land at Mount Wollaston [Braintree], Massachusetts, having eight members of his family each recieving 4 acres of land.
	gh455.tripod.com (5371 words)

	Quincy Massachusetts, 1890
		The territory is remarkable for its eminences, situated mostly in the southwest part; though Mount Wollaston is near the shore on the eastern side, and Great Hill is at the extremity of Hough's Neck, at the southeast.
		Other buildings of interest to the public are the venerable house in which John Hancock was born, and the two houses in which the two Quincy presidents were born, — all standing near Payne's (or Penn's) Hill, a little south of the central village, at the left of the railroad, going south.
		Captain Wollaston and some thirty other men came from England, and commenced a settlement near and upon the eminence which bears his name, in 1625.
	www.capecodhistory.us /Mass1890/Quincy1890.htm (1234 words)

	The Pagan Pilgrim: Thomas Morton of Merrymount
		'Mount Wollaston' was renamed 'Merry Mount,' or more accurately, 'Ma-re Mount,' as Morton spelled it, intending both 'merry' and a pun on the Latin word for the sea, this being a coastal settlement (Beston 1925).
		There was likewise a merry song made, which, (to make their Revells more fashionable,) was sung with a Corus, every man bearing his part; which they performed in a daunce, hand in hand about the Maypole, whiles one of the Company sung and filled out the good liquor, like gammedes and Iupiter.
		And this the whole company of the Revellers at Ma-re Mount knew to be the true sence and exposition of the riddle that was fixed to the Maypole, which the Seperatists wer at defiance with.
	members.aol.com /srasmus/oldentext/more_merrymount.html (1009 words)

	Quincy Massachusetts
		Consecrated in 1855, Mount Wollaston Cemetery was originally 25 acres.
		Daniel Brims of the Forest Hills Cemetery was also instrumental in the design and layout of Mount Wollaston as a “garden cemetery.” The Design Commission also was composed of Luke Rideout, Lewis Bass, Ensign Fellows, H.N. Glover, Joseph Brackett, William Auson, W.T. Morton and John Glover.
		In Mount Wollaston Cemetery you will find the finest examples in the world of “turning” granite, a design technique invented and developed The Lyons Granite Company of Quincy.
	ci.quincy.ma.us /cemeteryabout.asp (287 words)

	The May-Pole of Merry Mount, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1836
		Had a wanderer, bewildered in the melancholy forest, heard their mirth, and stolen a half-affrighted glance, he might have fancied them the crew of Comus, some already transformed to brutes, some midway between man and beast, and the others rioting in the flow of tipsy jollity that foreran the change.
		Not far from Merry Mount was a settlement of Puritans, most dismal wretches, who said their prayers before daylight, and then wrought in the forest or the corn-field till evening made it prayer time again.
		There is an admirable foundation for a philosophic romance in the curious history of the early settlement of Mount Wollaston, or Merry Mount.
	eldritchpress.org /nh/mmm.html (4058 words)

	JOSEPH M. SCHWARTZ MEMORIAL ESSAY, 2005, THE Renascence - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The persistence of the Merry Mount episode in literature is hard for historians to account for.
		He calls Merry Mount a "tawdry contretemps," noting that although "American poets, playwrights, and novelists have always seen something immensely suggestive" in it, American historians "have gone over this ground more gingerly." They have hesitated for three reasons.
		Mount Wollaston lay about thirty miles by forest trail and farther by sea from Plymouth.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3777/is_200504/ai_n13642040 (781 words)

	Thomas Morton
		Thomas Morton of Merrymount, English adventurer in America, was a lawyer of Clifford's Inn, London, and seems to have practiced in the west of England.
		He spent three months in America in 1622; returned in 1625, and settled at Mount Wollaston, in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts; and in 1626, when most of the settlers removed to Virginia, he assumed command of the settlement, and renamed it Merrymount.
		threatening to make it a woefull mount and not a merry mount." In disregard of a royal proclamation, Morton sold rum and firearms to the natives, not only injuring the trade of Plymouth, but also endangering the safety of the colonists.
	www.nndb.com /people/056/000114711 (378 words)

	Coastlines 2004-2005: Spotlight on Quincy: That's Quin-zee to You...
		Originally enjoyed primarily by the Algonquin Indians, in 1625 an English sea captain with the surname Wollaston successfully steered his way across the Atlantic with a boatload of indentured servants as cargo.
		The group settled in, and began referring to the area as Mount Wollaston.
		Wollaston's employer assigned him elsewhere, so off he went, leaving the Mount open to another captain and son of England, Thomas Morton.
	www.mass.gov /czm/coastlines/2004-2005/ebbflow/quin_zee.htm (794 words)

	Chapter Chapter 5 of Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers by Ernest Rhys (ed)
		Richard Warren, who hath been mentioned before in this book, and was an useful instrument; and during his life bore a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the first settlement of the plantation of New Plimouth.
		They having continued some time in New England, and not finding things to answer their expectation, nor profit to arise as they looked for, the said Capt. Wollaston takes a great part of the servants, and transports them to Virginia, and disposed of them there, and writes back to one Mr.
		Filcher, and I, having a part in the plantation, will receive you as my partners and consociates, so may you be free from service, and we will converse, plant, trade, and live together as equals, or to the like effect.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/60/107/20820/1.html (318 words)

	Thomas Morton
		Thomas Morton, a trader and lawyer, emigrated from England to the Plymouth Colony in the company of a Captain Wollaston in 1624.
		Unable to get along with the Pilgrim authorities, Wollaston, Morton and other settlers established their own small colony of Mount Wollaston at the present-day site of Quincy, Massachusetts.
		Morton remained behind and renamed the village Mare Mount (Merry Mount), a clear indication of his priorities.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h576.html (705 words)

	Ancestry.com - Genealogy Databases
		Mount Morris, past and present : an illustrated history of the township and the village of Mount Morris, Ogle County, Illinois,
		Mount Vernon and the Washington family : a concise handbook on the ancestry, youth and family of George Washington, and history
		The Mount Calvary Baptist Church celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Rev. J.
	www.ancestry.netscape.com /search/rectype/alldblist.aspx?sourceLink=,m,mou&firstTitle=0 (672 words)

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		About some three or four years before this time, there came over one Captain Wollaston (a man of pretty parts) and with him three or four more of some eminency, who brought with them a great many servants, with provisions and other implements for to begin a plantation.
		Having continued there some time, and not finding things to answer their expectations nor profit to arise as they looked for, Captain Wollaston takes a great part of the servants and transports them to Virginia, where he puts them off at good rates, selling their time to other men; and writes back to one Mr.
		They changed also the name of their place, and instead of calling it Mount Wollaston they call it Merry-mount, as if this jollity would have lasted ever.
	www.richmond.edu /~aholton/121readings_html/merrymount_html (720 words)

	SOUTH SHORE SECRETS - Artistic repose
		As intellectually stimulating as the region’s older cemeteries may be, Mount Wollaston Cemetery in Quincy is equally interesting to the eye.
		Granite design techniques developed by the Lyons Granite Co. of Quincy are in evidence in the 57-acre cemetery, which was consecrated in 1855.
		Mount Wollaston Cemetery: From Route 3A heading into Quincy, turn right onto Sea Street.
	ledger.southofboston.com /articles/2006/08/30/news/news07.txt (654 words)

	Braintree Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Braintree was founded on land first colonized in 1625 by Captain Wollaston, and initially named Mount Wollaston.
		Under the rule of Thomas Morton it was renamed Merry Mount.
		The area was resettled and incorporated as the town of Braintree, named after the English town of Braintree in 1640, on land which is now part of the current town of Braintree, from which Randolph, Holbrook, the City of Quincy, and part of Milton were split off.
	www.townofbraintreegov.org /braintreehistorical (280 words)

	St. Boltoph Town: Chapter 1
		And it was in that same,year, too, that Captain Wollaston and his party established themselves at the place since known as Mount Wollaston, in the town of Quincy.
		Among Wollaston's companions was one Thomas Morton "of Clifford's Inn, Gent.," a lawyer by profession and an outlaw by practice.
		When Wollaston departed to Virginia on business he proceeded to become captain in his stead and, naming the settlement Mare Mount, — Merry Mount, — he invited all the settlers to have a good time.
	www.kellscraft.com /StBoltophTown/StBoltophTown01.html (1823 words)

	Abigail Smith Adams
		was the daughter of William Smith, a minister of a Congregational church at Weymouth, in the colony of Massachusetts Bay; and of Elizabeth Quincy, a daughter of Col. John Quincy, the proprietor of Mount Wollaston.
		This beautiful spot, about seven miles from Boston, was settled by Thomas Wollaston and thirty of his associates in 1625, five years before that of the Massachusetts Colony.
		This settlement was broken up by Governor Winthrop, in the summer of 1630, shortly after his landing; and in 1634 was made part of Boston, and the land granted to William Coddington.
	www.abigailadams.net (1792 words)

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		In his preparations, he showed himself a stern, zealous, capable leader who was intolerant of what he regarded as immoral or heretical.
		It is therefore not surprising that he came into conflict with Thomas Morton and the settlers at Mount Wollaston, or Merry Mount who sold arms to the Indians and lived what the Puritans considered a dissolute life.
		Endicott "personally conducted an expedition thither, 'rebuked the inhabitants for their profaneness, and admonished them to look to it that they walked better'.
	www.moonstar.com /~acpjr/Blackboard/Common/Maypole/Endicott.html (154 words)

	Freedom Friendship and Faith
		This entire region was then known as Mount Wollaston and was part of Boston, having been annexed in 1634.
		The Wollaston society had built its own handsome building of stone at 157 Beale Street, which is now the home of St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church.
		The Wollaston membership brought to First Parish a lively spirit of fellowship and an interest in science and world religions that continues to enrich and enlarge the historic tradition of First Parish.
	www.ufpc.org /history/freedomfriendshipandfaith.htm (5978 words)

	John Endicott Summary
		He is infamous for cutting down the maypole at Merry Mount (now Quincy) to punish unruly settlers.
		Leading an expedition to Merry Mount, Endecott "rebuked the inhabitants for their profaneness," and admonished them to "look to it that they walked better." In an event now famous in American history, Endecott cut down the maypole at Merry Mount to discourage such public celebrations as dancing and sporting events.
		Endicott was the local governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from April 1629 to June 1630, when John Winthrop brought the charter to Salem and became governor of the colony as well as of the company.
	www.bookrags.com /John_Endicott (2767 words)

	Thomas Morton, Revels in New Canaan (1637)
		Thomas Morton's scandalous erection of a Maypole in the settlement of Merry-Mount (Mount Wollaston) is described in William Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation.
		The setting up of this Maypole was a lamentable spectacle to the precise seperatists : that lived at new Plymouth.
		There was likewise a merry song made, which (to make their Revells more fashionable) was sung with a chorus, every man bearing his part; which they performed in a dance, hand in hand about the Maypole, whiles one of the Company sung, and filled out the good liquor like gammedes and Jupiter.
	www.swarthmore.edu /SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/19-mor.html (302 words)

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