Times were changing, though, and the non-Puritan and the non-pious strove for a festive holiday. Part of what was yesterday struck out was this day reinserted. The committee sat until near three o’clock, still discussing the principles of my report. Smith, who wished until tomorrow morning to put his questions which was agreed to. James Taylor attended, and made his statements in the presence of Mr. Christmas day but the committee of enquiry met at ten this morning. John Quincy Adams, who came from old Puritan stock:Ģ5th. In 1807, Congress Works on Christmas!Ĭhristmas still wasn’t much of a holiday after the turn of the century. mrs Pettee, Stackpool, Thomas & Collar taried all night. her women were Calld in towards Evn g & Shee was Safe Delivrd of a fine Son a t 10 h Evn, and is Cleverly. 25, 1791, the midwife made famous by historian Laurel Thacher Ulrich had to help her neighbor deliver a child. On the Maine frontier in 1786, Martha Ballard may not have had much choice but to work on Christmas. We were too good Puritans to make much account of Christmas, though sometimes the young people at the main road got up a ball on Christmas eve, but at New Year, there was a general interchange of good wishes, with gifts and festivity. The women began to comb flax and spin linen thread the men went daily to cut and haul the year’s firewood. Towards Christmas the fat hogs were killed, the pork salted, the hams hung in the wide chimney to cure, and the sausages made. There was much visiting and distribution of good cheer for a week or two after that holiday. As an old lady she remembered New England Christmas in the late 18th century: It would have been hard for Sarah to ignore the non-Puritan celebration of Christmas. The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas brought plenty of food, a time for feasting and hope before the long, cold winter. The Puritan Hold Loosensįorty miles north in Newburyport, Mass., Sarah Smith Emery noted the young people weren’t quite as good at following the Puritan strictures on Christmas. he hath preachy but 2 Sabath days (Since he Recd orders) here. …a Great Concourse of of people at the Church to hear Mr Seabury preach a Christmas Sermon & to See fashions. Douglass’ paid him interest and gave him and other selectmen a supper. In 1730 on Christmas Day, a cloudy and windy Friday, Hempstead reported in his diary that he conducted business as usual. Cooper, who is much better.īut even a Puritan like Joshua Hempstead in New London, Conn., couldn’t ignore the significance of Christmas. as at other Times Being a pleasant day, the street was fill’d with Carts and Horses - visited Mr. The Shops were open, and Carts came to Town with Wood, Hoop-poles, Hay &c. Unfortunately, the friend was ‘goon to h.’ The old Puritan was no doubt pleased to see business as usual in the streets of Boston that day.
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Since which time nothing hath been atempted that way, at least openly.Ī century later, Salem witch trial judge Samuel Sewall tried to visit an old friend on Christmas. If they made ye keeping of it mater of devotion, let them kepe their houses, but ther should be no gameing or revelling in ye streets. So he went to them, and tooke away their implements, and tould them that was against his conscience, that they should play & others worke. …he found them in ye streete at play, openly some pitching ye barr, & some at stoole-ball, and shuch like sports. At noon he found them, and tells what happens in his diary: Bradford let them off the hook, but they had the effrontery to play at sports. He called out his non-Puritan colonists to work, but they told him they couldn’t as a matter of conscience. William Bradford famously put down the Christmas celebration at Plimoth Plantation in 1621. No New England Christmas in Plimoth, 1621 They moved the colony to Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, because so many of them died during the winter. They had a feast - perhaps roast venison or rabbit stew. They built a small settlement, and during the wintry Christmas that year they attended services in a new chapel. Then they gathered inside next to a roaring fire, told stories, joked and reminisced about France. Croix Island, now on the border between New Brunswick and Maine. The previous June they had arrived on St. In 1604, French Catholics and Huguenots celebrated the first New England Christmas ever - in Maine, with no Puritans in sight. A holiday greeting from Currier & Ives, who created so much New England Christmas imagery.
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