Elizabeth Parry bill of cost in the time of her lying in of an Eligetimate child, about 1730.

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Elizabeth Parry bill of cost in the time of her lying in of an Eligetimate child, about 1730.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/639333238

Collection comprises a 1-page bill detailing the costs incurred by 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.

1 item (.10 lin. ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7904534

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Bond, Josephine C.

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Parry, Elizabeth M.

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Resident of New England. From the description of Elizabeth Parry bill of cost in the time of her lying in of an Eligetimate child, about 1730. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 639333238 ...

Phillips, J. H. (John Harber), 1936-

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Merchant of Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Papers, 1743-1798. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32458470 ...

Dix, Edward Spencer

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Emerson, Edward Dwight

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Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

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Lynde, Joseph, 1702-1788

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