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TIL Martha Ballard (1735 – 1812) was an American midwife and diarist who recorded over 1,400 pages of daily life and births on the Maine frontier for 27 years. Her detailed diary offers rare insights into colonial women’s lives, family struggles, local crimes, and early American social customs.

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