John, do you have access to Bronson? In case you don't, that lists only two versions from New England:
#53 (four verses), from Mrs. Susie Carr Young, Brewer, Me, recorded by George Hertzog in 1928 and published in Barry, Eckstrom & Smith 'British Ballds from Maine' (1929).
#92 (11 verses) from Orlon Melville, Charlestown NH, recorded by Helen Hartness Flanders and published in 'The New Green Mountain Songster' (1939).

Of Bronson's 145 versions from oral tradition, the vast majority are from the Appalachians, with Virginia very strongly represented. There are also a few from the Midwest (WI, MI, MO, AR) and a tiny number from the West (CA, OR). I don't see any at all from the Canadian maritimes, in contrast to many old British ballads.

I think you have to put this distribution down to immigration patterns. The ballad was pretty much extinct in the British Isles by the 20th century (give or take an example each from Southwest England, Ireland and Scotland), but most of the earlier versions listed in Child were from Lowland Scotland - although Child's oldest examples are English broadsides. Since the most prominent immigrant group to have carried ballads into the Appalachians were the 'Scotch-Irish' (people of lowland Scots and Northern English origin who had settled in Ulster and then crossed the Atlantic), it isn't too surprising to find the 'Housecarpenter' / 'Demon Lover' most prevalent there, although its new lease of life is still pretty amazing. New England (as far as my limited knowledge extends) was settled originally by English puritans, with most of its English population having East Anglian roots - a region where there is no history of the ballad having been recorded.

I understand that the popularity of the 'House Carpenter' version of the ballad owes much to a broadside published by De Marsan in New York in the 1850s - you could speculate that this broadside must have been distributed mostly in the Appalachian states where the ballad was already well known.