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Dr. Page Financial Records: Mathews Account in "Martha and a Man-Midwife".
Clear and pleasant. mr Finny here giting wood 1/2 ye
Day. Ezra Town went to See his Unkle and Aunt Gill.
Laban Princes wife & Child Sleep here. mr Ballard returnd
from Surveying at m. Tabors. I have Done my house work,
feel fatagud.
at home.
Clear. I have been at home. Bulah Sleeps here
has washt for me. I paid her 1/6 for her Service. mr Town Sleeps
here.
at home. mr Town here.
Snowd. I was Calld at 7h Evn to See mrs Mathews who is in Labour.
I tarried all night, Slept none.
at Wm Mathews.
X. Birth Wm Mathewss Dagt . XX.
Cloudy. I was at mr Mathews, his wife was Deld at 6h morn of a
fine Dagt after a Severe illness, her first Child.
I receivd 9/, made a prest of 1/6 to the infant. I returnd
home and find my house up in arms, how long God will preserv
my Strength to perform as I have Done of late, he only knows.
may I trust in him at all times, and do good and hee will fullfill
his promis according to my Day. may he giv me Strength and
may I Conduct accordingly.
at Ditoes. Birth 4th. this is the 612th Birth I have attended at Since ye year
1777. the first I assisted was the wife of Petton Warrin in
July 1778.
Cloudy, Snowd Some. I have Done my house work and ironed my Cloaths.
mr Ballard been at Coart.
at home.
Clear day, Snowd at night. mr Densmr , his
wife and Dagt Mary, Son & Dagt Lambt , Ephm &
Phillip Dind here on roast Chickins. I have not been to Meeting.
I was Calld at 6h Evn to mr Peter Clearks to See the
wife of Wilm Moore who was in Labour. mr Eads Came
there for me. Shee would not Dismis me. I had no Sleep.
at mr Peter Clearks. Death Jimy
Pagess infant .
