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Elizabeth Parry bill of cost in the time of her lying in of an Eligetimate child, circa 1730, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Purchase, 2010
Processed by: Alice Poffinberger, July 2010
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, July 2010
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Elizabeth Parry was a resident of New England.
Collection comprises a 1-page bill detailing the costs incurred by Elizabeth Parry during childbirth, including charges for a midwife; food and board; sugar, bread, spices, oatmeal and fruit; a "watch on fixed nights" and candles; the child's linen and clothing; two cords of firewood; a fire wood cutter; and two trips to Boston during the lying-in. Also includes the cost of "time spent to go to authority to make complaint of Edward Dix the father of my above[said] child." The bill is signed by Parry, and witnessed by John Phillips, Joseph Lynde, Jonas Bond, and Edward Emerson.
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