North Cache News | 1941-12-19 | Page 2 | Early Puritans Forbid 'Crime' of Celebrating Christmas |

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Date	1941-12-19
Paper	North Cache News
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Article Title	Early Puritans Forbid 'Crime' of Celebrating Christmas
Type	article
Date	1941-12-19
Paper	North Cache News
Page	2
OCR Text	Show Early Puritans Forbid 'Crime' of Celebratino- ChnV. the like, either by forebearong labor, la-bor, feasting, or any otEir way. upon such account as aforesaid every ev-ery such person so offending shall pay for every such offense five shill-ings shill-ings as a fine to the county " Celebrating Christmas was a crime to the early Puritans in Massachusetts. Mas-sachusetts. The practice was looked down upon with so much disfavor that anyone observing the date was fined five shillings. On May 11, 1659, the general court in Boston passed a law against Christmas celebrations cel-ebrations which said: "It is therefore ordered by this court and the authority thereof that whomsoever shall be found observing observ-ing any such day as Christmas or
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