Thomas Morton’s arrest is ordered by the General Court.

According to John Winthrop, Morton “is adjudged to be imprisoned till he were sent into England, and his house burnt down, for his many injuries offered to the Indians and other misdemeanors.” According to Michael Zuckerman, Morton’s arrest is “on a warrant so unlawful that evidence of its employment had to be kept out of the colony records, and found him guilty at their second court, on charges so specious that even a Puritan apologist called them ‘trumped up.” He is “set in the stocks, stripped of his properties, imprisoned, and banished,” and the Puritans “delayed burning down his house until his departure, so that he had to see “the spectacle as he sailed into exile.” Morton dies in Maine, in approximately 1647.