Diary of Ralph Josselin (Private Collection)

9.3.1648 (Thursday 9 March 1648)

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9: A pleasing morning but presently clouded and overcast, and blustery, and snowy. my dear wife faint and weak, and under great fears by reason of the same, my maid was ill with the headache. so as we were in a poor shiftless case, but god gave us a good help Mrs Mary Church , who tended us all.