Was Christmas Illegal In the U.S. Until 1836?: Responding To A Popular Social Media Meme

CORRECTION:

The sermon by Increase Mather is dated 1687. I said 1697 at one point in the video.

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William Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, 1606-1646
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"A testimony against several prophane and superstitious customs now practised by some in New-England the evil whereof is evinced from the Holy Scriptures and from the writings both of ancient and modern divines" by Increase Mather (1687)
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A50236.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

"Antiquitates vulgares: or, the antiquities of the common people. Giving an account of several of their opinions and ceremonies" by Henry Bourne (1725)
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"Grace defended. A censure on the ungodliness, by which the glorious grace of God, is too commonly abused. A sermon preached on the twenty fifth day of December, 1712. Containing some seasonable admonitions of piety. And concluded, with a brief dissertation on that case, whether the penitent thief on the cross, be an example of one repenting at the last hour, and on such a repentance received unto mercy?" by Mather, Cotton (1712)
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=evans;cc=evans;rgn=main;view=text;idno=N01303.0001.001

A supplement to the new version of Psalms by N. Tate and N. Brady. Containing, I. The usual hymns, creed, Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments, all set to their proper tunes, with additional hymns for the holy sacrament, &c. II. Select psalms in particular measures to supply the whole variety of metres that are in the old version, with duplicates to most of them, and Gloria Patris, and the proper tune for each metre. III. A set of tunes for the foresaid new version of the Psalms.
Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715., Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/B01624.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

"A Vindication of Christmas-Day of the Solemnity Of the Nativity of Christ: Shewing the Grounds Upon Which The Observation of that and other Festivals is justified in the Church" by Thomas Warmstry (1659).
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