Show NEW ENGLAND PLAGUE SPOT Merrymount a Resort for the Worlds World's Riffraff Until Wiped Out by Captain Standish l I An Interesting chapter on The Tares In the New England In Roland G G. G Ushers Usher's book The Pilgrims Pit Pil grams grims and Their History pays special cial elal attention to Merrymount which I other ther writers on New Kew England have Always 1 noticed d at length and pvc Hawthorne material for Cor a n story Worton Who Who- founded It It arrived in only live e years after the Ole had landed and being a gen gen- of choicely cultivated vices disliked the atmosphere of ot the place lie Be was a sort son of at junior partner or helper to one Captain Wollaston who had hurl a number of 01 Indentured servants with him Wollaston went vent to Virginia and nud wrote Tote Morton to bring brine on these servants to the same place where they could be sold at nt an advantageous fig fig- ure are But nut with an eye to the main chance Morton proposed that Instead the servants go with him Into the wilderness and found a settlement where they could be he under his loose authority their own masters They did so so and this settlement of Merrymount Merrymount Merry Merry- mount became a sort of gambling hell helland and md drunkards drunkard's resort for all alt the riffraff riff riff- raff of the r region glon Morton captain of ofa a crew of desperate white sailors suitors and settlers rogues ay runaway servants and andeen even en dissolute Indian women omen held high sway for a n time till time till Captain StandIsh appeared on the scene |