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Grace Batter'd ( - fl. c. 1670)

Wife of a shoemaker Relevant locations: Lived at or near Plymouth, Devon
References in Documents:
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669)

ONEOne, Grace Batter'd, the wife of a shoemaker, of honest Repute, and mother of five Children, now come to the full time to be delivered of a sixth Birth, about twelve a Clock at night began to have travelling pains; and near four a Clock in the morning the Head of a Child came to the Birth: When the Midwife, putting her hand to help off this, felt another, (by its heat and motion) alive; and therefore made all possible speed to deliver her of this.