Merry-Mount: A Romance of the Massachusetts Colony is a historical novel written by John Lothrop Motley. The book is set in the early 17th century in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and tells the story of the conflict between the Puritan settlers and the non-Puritan settlers at a place called Merry-Mount. The main character of the novel is Sir Christopher Gardiner, a British aristocrat who arrives in the colony and becomes involved in the dispute between...