Fair to say it was more of a New Englander thing though. No one should be surprised that Puritans disliked it.
"The celebration of Halloween in early America was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies. Colonial Halloween festivities featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds."
Maryland was of course founded by Lord Baltimore as a Catholic colony. The only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence was from Maryland - and he was under disability as by that time Protestants had taken it over.
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Almanacs from the colonies and the early United States do not list Halloween as a holiday.[2]
[2] Nicholas Rogers, Halloween: from Pagan Ritual to Party Night (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002): 67
Fair to say it was more of a New Englander thing though. No one should be surprised that Puritans disliked it.
"The celebration of Halloween in early America was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies. Colonial Halloween festivities featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds."
https://crothersvilletimes.com/the-history-of-halloween/#:~:text=The+celebration+of+Halloween+in,mischief-making+of+all+kinds.
Maryland was of course founded by Lord Baltimore as a Catholic colony. The only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence was from Maryland - and he was under disability as by that time Protestants had taken it over.