Thomas Morton is arrested in Quincy.

He is arrested by Myles Standish in what was then Merrymount. Described by William Bradford as “The Lord of Misrule,” Morton is prosecuted for non-conformism after allegedly engaging in Bacchanalian celebrations with his followers and Native Americans and for trading guns, ammunition, and spirits with the Native Americans for skins. He is exiled first to the Isle of Shoals, then to England, but subsequently returns and is arrested again, this time by the Puritans, in 1630.*