The Man Who Told the Puritans "Up Yours" (2)

ANNETTE TELLS TALES An Alt-New England Story, Continued

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Welcome to Part 2 of The Man Who Told the Puritans "Up Yours", my riff on historian Dr. Peter C. Mancall’s The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England.

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The Man Who Told the Puritans "Up Yours" (1)

Annette Laing

Jul 29

The Man Who Told the Puritans "Up Yours" (1)

Thomas Morton often has a bit part in American history classes. Turns out, he has a lot to teach us, not only about early American history, but about history itself.

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The Tale So Far:

Last time, we met English lawyer Thomas Morton, who made the …

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