1579 CE - 1647 CE: Life of poet, writer, lawyer, and colonist Thomas Morton, founder of Merrymount Colony in North America.

1626 CE: Thomas Morton drives Captain Wollaston from the colony of Mount Wollaston; founds new colony of Merrymount.

1626 CE - 1628 CE: Merrymount Colony, under Thomas Morton, becomes the most lucrative and fastest-growing settlement in New England.

1630 CE - 1633 CE: Thomas Morton sues Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony to have their charters revoked; legal briefs of the lawsuit become the drafts of his book New English Canaan.

1637 CE: Publication of Thomas Morton's 3-Volume work New English Canaan.