Martha Moore Ballard was fifty years old when she began her diary on January 1 of 1785. Every day, for twenty-seven years, she recorded the daily events in her diary, beginning with the weather. Initially the entries were short and choppy, but gradually they became fuller and more regular. What began, most probably, as a record of her midwifery and healing work, grew into a remarkably steady account of both the ordinary and the extraordinary events in her life.Martha Ballard’s massive but cryptic diary was handed down through her daughter Dolly’s family as a pile of hand-made diary booklets. Remarkably, none were lost. When a great great-granddaughter of Martha’s, Mary Hobart, graduated from medical school in New York in 1884, Dolly’s daughters gave her the diary. Mary Hobart had the scrambled leaves of the diary put in order and bound in homemade linen covers. And at the end of her career, in 1930, she donated the diary to the Maine State Library, where historian Laurel Ulrich found it fifty years later.
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