Overstudied?

Dutch map from 1651.

1659 public notice in Boston declaring celebration of Christmas illegal.

“So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 {colonists — mostly of English origin} at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.”

— Edmund Morgan (1916-2013), historian at Yale University