John Newcomen was murdered by Mayflower passenger John Billington in 1630, making him the first white settler murdered by another white settler in Plymouth Colony , Massachusetts .
18-493: Newcomen may refer to: People [ edit ] John Newcomen (c.1613–1630), English first white settler murdered by another white settler in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Matthew Newcomen (c. 1610–1669), English nonconformist churchman Thomas Newcomen (1663–1729), English ironmonger and inventor Other uses [ edit ] Viscount Newcomen , of Mosstown in
36-740: A "Lord of Misrule." On October 12, 1812, John Adams wrote the following to Thomas Jefferson about Morton's book: The design of the Writer appears to have been to promote two Objects: 1. to Spread the fame and exaggerate the Advantages of New England 2. to destroy the Characters of the English Inhabitants, and excite the Government to Suppress the Puritans, and Send over Settlers in their Stead, from among
54-612: A May-pole, 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 & celebrated the feasts of ye Roman Goddess Flora , or ye beastly practices of ye mad Bacchanalians. Morton's group performed a second Mayday ritual in 1628 by erecting an 80-foot (24 m) Maypole topped with deer antlers around which he and his followers caroused drunkenly. The Plymouth militia under Myles Standish took
72-493: A punning reference to Newcomen: Old Woodman ... was choked at Plymouth after he had played the unhappy marksman when he was pursued by a careless fellow that was new come into the land No further information about Newcomen's family is known for certain. The name "New comin" may have been a reference to his status as a newcomer to the Plymouth rather than a surname. Thomas Morton (colonist) Thomas Morton (c. 1579–1647)
90-470: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages John Newcomen There are two principal recordings of the event written in the 17th century. The first is from Governor William Bradford 's Of Plymouth Plantation . This year John Billington the elder (one that came over with the first) was arraigned; and both by grand, and petty jury found guilty of willful murder; by plain and notorious evidence. And
108-696: The County of Longford, a title in the Peerage of Ireland Newcomen baronets , of Kenagh in the County of Longford, a title in the Baronetage of Ireland Newcomen Society , a British learned society Newcomen Society of the United States , an educational foundation Newcomen atmospheric engine , a device to harness the power of steam to produce mechanical work Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
126-684: The Indians, disregarding the laws of Plymouth Colony. Morton and his cohorts attempted to establish their own colony which they called Mount Wollaston. Captain Wollaston moved to Virginia in 1626, leaving Morton in command of the colony, which was renamed Merrymount. Morton's religious beliefs were criticized by the Puritans of nearby Plymouth Colony as little more than a thinly disguised form of heathenism. The leaders of Plymouth charged him with having sexual relations with local Indian women and drunken orgies in honor of Bacchus and Aphrodite They ... set up
144-490: The first edition of New English Canaan in 1637, with a small number of copies surviving in the Netherlands. The Prince Society reprinted the original Amsterdam edition in 1883 with a foreword written by Charles Francis Adams Jr. Jack Dempsey produced an edited edition of Morton's book including a biography of Morton which was published in 1999. In 1628, Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford famously declared Morton
162-517: The profanest families amongst them; ... His fact was, that he waylaid a young man, one John Newcomen (about a former quarrel) and shot him with a gun, whereof he died. The second account comes from William Hubbard 's A General History of New England from the Discovery to MDCLXXX (17th-century manuscript first published in 1815). So when this wilderness began first to be peopled by the English where there
180-537: The sea god of the Philistines . In 1637, Morton published his three-volume New English Canaan , a denunciation of Puritan government in the colonies and their policy of building forts to guard themselves against Indian attack. He described the Indians as a far nobler culture and a new Canaan under attack from the "New Israel" of the Puritans. Morton returned to New England during the English Civil War where he
198-465: The shoulder, with which he died soon after. The murtherer expected that either for want of power to execute for capital offenses, or for want of people to increase the plantation, he should have his life spared; but justice otherwise determined. Thomas Morton , writing in New English Canaan (1637), also makes a brief reference to the event, nicknaming John Billington the "Old Woodman", and making
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234-461: The town the following June with little resistance, chopped down the Maypole, and arrested Morton for supplying guns to the Indians. He was given a trial in Plymouth, then marooned on the deserted Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire until an English ship could take him home. The Merrymount community survived without Morton for another year, but was renamed Mount Dagon by the Puritans, after
252-531: Was an early colonist in North America from Devon , England. He was a lawyer, writer, and social reformer known for studying American Indian culture, and he founded the colony of Merrymount , located in Quincy, Massachusetts . He is the author of New English Canaan, an anti- Puritan work that was the first book banned the present-day United States. Morton took a three-month exploratory trip to America in 1622, but
270-460: Was arrested for being a Royalist agitator. He was put on trial for his role in revoking the Plymouth Colony's charter and on charges of sedition. By September, he was imprisoned in Boston . His trial was delayed through winter but his health began to fail, so the Puritans granted him clemency. He ended his days among the planters of Maine, and he died in 1647 at age 71. The English government destroyed
288-573: Was back in England by early 1623 complaining of intolerance among ruling elements of the Puritan community. He returned in 1624 as a senior partner in a Crown-sponsored trading venture aboard the ship Unity with his associate Captain Wollaston and 30 indentured young men. They began trading for furs on a spit of land belonging to the Algonquian tribes. Morton immediately began selling liquor and firearms to
306-412: Was but one poor town, another Cain was found therein, who maliciously slew his neighbour in the field, as he accidentally met him, as he himself was going to shoot deer. The poor fellow perceiving the intent of this Billington, his mortal enemy, sheltered himself behind trees as well as he could for a while; but the other, not being so ill a marksman as to miss his aim, made a shot at them, and struck him on
324-517: Was for the same accordingly executed. This as it was the first execution amongst them, so was it a matter of great sadness unto them; they used all due means about his trial, and took the advice of Mr. Winthrop , and other the ablest gentlemen in the Bay of Massachusetts, that were then newly come over, who concurred with them that he ought to die, and the land be purged from blood. He and some of his, had been often punished for miscarriages before, being one of
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