Martha Moore Ballard was an American midwife, healer, and diarist. Unusual for the time, Ballard kept a diary with hundreds of entries over nearly three decades, which has provided historians with invaluable insight into colonial frontier-women's lives.
- Occupation
- midwife, diarist, writer, healer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1735
- Died
- 1812, June 9, 1812
