Person:Agnes Way (3)

Name^[1]	Agnes Way
Married Name	Agnes Harris
Married Name	Agnes Pember
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	Abt 1660	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Marriage	14 May 1679	New London, New London, Connecticut, United Statesto Samuel Harris
Marriage	Bef 1688	New London, New London, Connecticut, United StatesBased on estimated date of birth of eldest known child (Mercy). to Thomas Pember
Death^[1]	Feb 1732/33	New London, New London, Connecticut, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Sgt. George¹ Way, in Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992)
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"Agnes (Way), born Providence, RI circa 1660; died New London, CT February 1732/3 (Hempstead Diary, p. 257); … She was a noted 'doctoress,' as seen in the Hempstead Diary, 10 May 1712, 'Goodwife Pember to look after Robt hand, a bad swelling in it' (Hempstead Diary, p. 10)."
1. Thomas Pember, in Hazen, Celeste Pember. John Pember : the History of the Pember family in America. (Springfield, Vt.: unknown, 1939)
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"Concerning Agnes, the g in her name was not commonly pronounced; tradition calls her Inez, and descendants named for her long afterward wrote it Inez. … Agnes studied medicine under her grandmother, Joanna Smith, became her assistant, and took over the practice when the grandmother became enfeebled. Calkins' Hist. New London, p 355, mentions Agnes Pember, 'who was for many years famous as a nurse and doctress. … Tradition related many vivid anecdotes respecting this energetic and experienced race of female practitioners … and unbounded confidence was placed in her skill to stroke for the king's evil, to cure cancers, alleviate asthma, and set bones."