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en-wikipedia-org-3954		Thomas Morton (colonist) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3070	226	64	The early years of the 17th century saw Morton travelling between London and the Devonshire countryside as a legal champion of displaced countrymen "whose economic straits filled new tent-cities, furnished prisons and gallows, and pushed Devon men to the Bristol sea-trades".[citation needed] He eventually settled into the service of Ferdinando Gorges, governor of the English port of Plymouth and a major colonial entrepreneur. They settled and began trading for furs on a spit of land given by native Algonquian tribes, whose culture Morton is said to have seen as more "civilized and humanitarian" than that of his "intolerant European neighbours".[citation needed] "He revived forbidden old-world customs, faced off with a Puritan militia determined to quash his pagan festivals, and wound up in exile."[1] Morton referred to Book 3 of his New English Canaan memoirs as a manual on "how not to colonize" – referring to the Puritan practices.[citation needed]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3954.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3954.txt