This site invites viewers "to piece together the life and world of an "ordinary" person from the past." The site boasts thousands of original documents that include diaries, maps, letters, and court records of a midwife from Massachusetts in the 1700's. Fascinating! Makes research fun.

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primary sources

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Additional Tags

midwife, martha ballard, martha ballard's diary online, a new american nation (1777-1800)

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)