"The inhabitants of Merrymount … did devise amongst themselves to have … Revels, and merriment after the old English custom … & therefore brewed a barrell of excellent beer, & provided a case of bottles to be spent, with other good cheer, for all comers of that day..."

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"Gov. William Bradford was horrified by the ‘beastly practices of ye mad Bacchanalians.’ "

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The Maypole That Infuriated the Puritans - New England Historical Society In 1628, a giant Maypole ruined Thomas Morton's chance to settle a mellower New England colony than his neighbors did at Plymouth Plantation.

"Morton wrote that he found two sorts of people in New England: the Christians and the Infidels. The Infidels he found ‘most full of humanity, and more friendly than the other.’"

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Christmas Buoys in a tree, sleigh, Atlantic shore in Boston

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"{T}herefore brewed a barrell of excellent beer, & provided a case of bottles to be spent, with other good cheer, for all comers of that day. And upon Mayday they brought the Maypole to the place"

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