# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-morton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:38:35.185Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-morton"
name: "Thomas Morton"
slug: "thomas-morton"
description: "Thomas Morton is known today for building the first Maypole in America; it was cut down after two years by the Puritans. He also 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 which could be considered the first book banned in America, as it was banned by the Puritans in colonial times."
tagline: "Early American colonist from Devon, England"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1575"
deathDate: "1647"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.46
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.527902666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morton_(colonist)"
    title: "Thomas Morton (colonist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "توماس مورتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morton"
    title: "Thomas Morton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morton"
    title: "Thomas Morton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morton"
    title: "Thomas Morton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morton"
    title: "Thomas Morton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176584"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump