He was born in 1753, in Nova Scotia, but came to New Hampshire when he was sixteen.
Who is Richard Wallace?
100
This street in Thetford is named for one of the Wallaces.
What is Bathsheba Lane?
100
When Richard was sixteen and lost in the woods, these animals were present as he slept.
What are wolves?
100
Unlike almost any working woman of the time, Bathsheba profited individually from her midwifery: she was allowed to keep this.
What is the money she was paid?
100
Children were let out of school and they and their parents all traveled to the Wallaces' house in 1832 to witness this event.
What is Bathsheba's death?
200
Bathsheba's Native American grandmother, who Bathsheba herself bore a striking resemblance to.
Who is Sarah?
200
This town in New Hampshire is where Richard lived before he came to Thetford.
What is Haverhill?
200
According to the sentinel, Wallace needed to be this in order to enter the fort after his swim across the lake.
What is a friend to America?
200
The capable midwife with her sorrel mare, who crossed the dangerously swollen Ompompanoosuc to assist a woman in need, was given this affectionate nickname.
Who is Granny Wallace?
200
This is the number of sets of twins that Bathsheba delivered in her time as a midwife.
What is twenty-one?
300
This man swam across Lake Champlain with Richard Wallace, who saved him from drowning.
Who is Ephraim Webster?
300
The Wallaces' house here burned to the ground in 1933.
What is Rice's Mills?
300
After the swim across the lake, the strain and exposure caused the decline of Richard Wallace's this.
What is health?
300
The number of mothers that died in Bathsheba's care.
What is zero?
300
In the aftermath of the flood of 1771, Wallace rescued a family that was stranded on this item of furniture.
What is a bed?
400
The McConnel family had two daughters, one of whom was twelve, and the other was two. The older girl shocked Wallace by doing this.
What is riding a horse without side-saddle?
400
This is the nickname of the forest that Richard became lost in during his trip to New Hampshire.
What are the Eleven-mile-woods?
400
In order to give the traveling McConnels something to eat, Richard left this at the campsite. Unfortunately, they missed it.
What is bread on a pole?
400
The number of children Bathsheba delivered.
What is 1666?
400
When Richard built his log cabin, his was one of this many families settled West of the Ompompanoosuc.
What is two?
500
She was the last baby delivered by Bathsheba, born in 1798.
Who is Mehitabel?
500
These were the two forts that Vermont was preoccupied with taking during the war.
What are Fort Ticonderoga and Mt. Independence?
500
When Richard heard a rumor of British and Native attacks near his house, he traveled this far immediately to protect Bathsheba.
What are forty miles?
500
Bathsheba's career as a midwife lasted for this long.
What is forty-two years?
500
By 1828, Bathsheba's and Richard's nine surviving children had given them this many grandchildren.