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"Martha Ballard was a midwife and medical practitioner. Her diary recounts the sensational events of her neighborhood--whether it be the ex-minister's wife charging a local judge with rape or the mass murder of a family--and catches the small movements that characterized life and death in an 18th-century town. Illustrated." Content warning for explicit medical content.

Chapter 1: Nursing in the Colonial Era and Early Days of the United States, 1607–1840 includes a section about Martha Ballard, a New England midwife.

A history of midwifery in the United States, from the 1600s to the present.

Content warning for explicit surgical details.

From American Battlefield Trust

Search results for primary sources on medicine in Colonial America from Harvard Libraries' Curiosity Collections.

From Tully Area Historical Society

Discusses overall history of nursing in the United States but includes a chapter on nursing in the Colonial Era (Chapter 1: Nursing in the Colonial Era and Early Days of the United States, 1607–1840)

Database covering the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 586,600 records and supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.

Marital status was a fundamental legal and cultural feature of women's identity in the eighteenth century. Free women who were not married could own property and make wills, contracts, and court appearances, rights that the law of coverture prevented their married sisters from enjoying. Karin Wulf explores the significance of marital status in this account of unmarried women in Philadelphia, the largest city in the British colonies.

From American Battlefield Trust

From Colonial Williamsburg

From Colonial Williamsburg Journal

From the National Park Service.

From www.foodtimeline.org

From Colonial North America at Harvard Library

From Colonial Williamsburg Journal

From The History Channel

From the National Park Service

Information on cooking during the Colonial period, including recipes, from Colonial Williamsburg.

From Smithsonian Magazine

From Time Magazine

From New England Law

Grace Sherwood was the defendant in colonial Virginia‘s most notorious witch trial, which took place in Princess Anne County (now part of Virginia Beach) in 1706.

Transcript of the proceedings of the Princess Anne County Court as it hears the case of Grace Sherwood on the charge of witchcraft.

From Penn State Extension

From the National Park Service

From Arnoldia (The Arnold Arboretum quarterly magazine)

From Arnoldia (The Arnold Arboretum quarterly magazine)