1738 December 26 (Tuesday). A little after 4 in the morning my Wife call’d Me up by her extreme pains prevailing upon her and changing into signs of Travail. I rode over to Deacon Forbush’s[1] and brought her over as our midwife. Sister Hicks, old Mrs. Knowlton, Mrs. Whipple, Mrs. Hephzibath Maynard,[2] Mrs. Byles and Mrs. Rogers were call’d and brought and stay’d all Day and Night. The Weather Moderate and ple[a]sant.
[1]Jonathan Forbush.
[2]Wife of Captain John Maynard.