Ephraim Ballard will live to see Maine separate from Massachusetts and become a state. 1671 Jane Sharp publishes the first English treatise on midwifery, in which she attacks man-midwives.

That Ephraim Ballard, Martha's husband, was set upon while surveying territory for an absentee landowner is not surprising. The "White Indians" who attacked him were not Indians after all, ...

Ballard’s 27-year diary, of more than 1,400 pages, ... who noted at the time of Martha Ballard’s 1812 death a newspaper account described her only as the wife of Ephraim Ballard, ...

Martha Ballard's neighbor James Purrinton was a case in point: Purrinton had been, in turn, a Calvinist Baptist, a Freewill Baptist, and a Universalist. In 1806 he murdered his wife and children ...

That Ephraim Ballard, Martha's husband, was set upon while surveying territory for an absentee landowner is not surprising. The "White Indians" who attacked him were not Indians after all, ...