Bradford: Merrymount; Massachusetts, 1626
"worse practices"
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About 1626, according to William Bradford, Thomas Morton and the other male settlers at Merrymount, in the Massachusetts Colony, were guilty of "great licentiousness." The men's consorting with Indian women is mentioned, along with "worse practices" associated with ancient Roman feasts.
Bradford said that Morton and his men "set up a maypole,drinking and dancing about it many days together, inviting the Indian women for their consorts, dancing and frisking together like so many fairies, or furies, rather; and worse practices. As if they had anew revived and celebrated the feasts of the Roman goddess Flora, or the beastly practices of the mad Bacchanalians."[1]
It would be interesting to know just what feasts and "beastly practices" Bradford had in mind.[2]
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