http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/PieHistory/MincemeatPie.htm

link above provides a timeline for mincement and when it arrived in US.

1659 - In 1659, Oliver Cromwell's Puritan influence spread across the Atlantic ocean to American British Colonies, and many towns of New England went so far as to actually ban mincemeat pies at Christmas time. Christmas was actually banned in Boston from 1659 to 1681. Those celebrating it were fined.

Mom (Baptist) and Dad (Quaker) used to make pie crust/mincemat respectively it from scratch and I remember seeing mincemeat filling in jars in shops around Christmas time as an adult. I never liked it so never ate or made it.

We Virginians still call it mincemeat.