I don't know if you have to wait until spring or not. They are all individual so when you are talking about what they do, one individual chicken is not enough for the averages to mean a whole lot. There is no telling for sure what one individual chicken will do.
I have not raised pullets to mature at this time of year. My pullets that start to lay before the days get real short tend to lay pretty well all though winter without extra light. These are the ones that do not go through a fall molt. Mature hens that do undergo a fall molt either quit laying or practically quit laying until their molt is finished, then they may or may not start laying in the winter. You can expect them to really crank it back up when the days get longer in the spring.
Commercial egg laying operations delay their pullets from starting to lay until they get mature enough to lay a decent sized egg by controlling the light. These are hens in totally climate-controlled, light-controlled buildings. What is actually happening outside the walls does not count. By artificially keeping the days short and the nights long, they can keep most of the pullets from starting to lay until the people managing the operations want them to start laying. Then they switch to longer days and shorter nights. In Massachusetts, I'd think your nights are already fairly long. I think there is a pretty good chance she will not start laying until spring and ther days get longer, but one thing I have noticed about chickens. They do not always do what they should do and they sure don't read the rules the same way we do. Anything can happen. Good luck!
