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|name= Myles Standish
|image=[[File:Myles Standish.jpg|250px|alt=Head and shoulders painting of a man in 17th century attire. He has dark hair, a dark beard and mustache. He is wearing a large, white, ruffled collar.]]
|caption= This portrait, first published in 1885, was alleged to be a 1625 likeness of Standish, although its authenticity has never been proven.<ref>Winsor, ''History of Boston'', 65.</ref>
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In 1625, another group of English settlers established an outpost not far from the site of Wessagusset. Located in what is now [[Quincy, Massachusetts]], about {{convert|27|mi|km}} north of Plymouth, the settlement was officially known as Mount Wollaston
, but soon earned the nickname "Merrymount."  [[Thomas Morton (colonist)|Thomas Morton]], leader of the small group of Englishmen, encouraged behavior that the Pilgrims found objectionable and dangerous.  The men of Merrymount built a [[maypole]], drank liberally, refused to observe the Sabbath and sold weapons to Native Americans.<ref>Philbrick, 163.</ref>  Bradford found the latter particularly disturbing and, in 1628, ordered Standish to lead an expedition to arrest Morton.<ref name=Schmidt161>Schmidt, 161.</ref>

Standish arrived with a group of men to find that the small band at Merrymount had barricaded themselves within a small building. Morton eventually decided to attack the men from Plymouth but, allegedly, the Merrymount group was too drunk to handle their weapons.<ref name=Schmidt161/> Morton aimed a weapon at Standish, which the captain purportedly ripped from Morton's hands. Standish and his men took Morton to Plymouth and eventually sent him back to England. Later, Morton wrote a book, ''New English Canaan'', in which he referred to Myles Standish as, "Captain Shrimp," and wrote, "I have found the Massachusetts Indians more full of humanity than the Christians."<ref>Philbrick, 164.</ref>

===Penobscot expedition===
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