Talk:Martha Corey

fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 16:49, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

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POV
This article seems to take the view that she was not a witch and was wrongly accused. How do we know? We weren't there? She was, after all, convicted of the charge. Perhaps we should say that she was a convicted witch, but some assert that she was innocent. --Courtdog (talk) 00:30, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Witches who can actually posses people don't actually exist in reality, you would be hard pressed to find respected documentation retaining that the victims of the Salem Witch Trials indeed practiced Harry Potter-like magic for real. 66.25.180.2 (talk) 00:08, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Age
Please tell me that whoever asserted that Martha Corey was 260 years old simply made a bad typo. I'm going to change it to 2600 for the moment. --Clevomon 19:27 EST, 21 January 2008 (UTC) Or... just delete the age entirely, since there wasn't really enough information to give an age period. --Clevomon 19:27 EST, 21 January 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.9.157.150 (talk)

she was tried at age 23. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.211.188.152 (talk) 19:58, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

How can Martha Corey have been born in 1620 or 1621 in New England when the first English settlement in New England was the Plymouth Colony, settled by the "Pilgrims" in 1620? The next attempts at settlement were in Wessagusett (now Weymouth) and Cape Ann (now Gloucester), Massachusetts in 1623 and both failed, although a few settlers remained, rather than return to England. The second successful settlement, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was not settled until 1629. It seems far more likely that she was born to a member of the Cape Ann colony that did not return to England. Docclabo (talk) 01:57, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

The age and date of the first marriage of Martha Corey need checking
The age and date of the first marriage of Martha Corey need checking - the article says she was born in 1619 or 1620 and was married in 1684 and later had a son. This would mean she would be at least 64 when she gave birth to her son Thomas. 2A00:23C6:B605:BC01:1A8:47B7:6B71:A935 (talk) 12:34, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Inappropriate inclusion
This parenthetical seems to not be appropriate to the article:

Benoni was thought to have an African or Native American biological father and represented living proof of Martha's "checkered" past in a time where pre-marital sex, especially with non-white partners, was considered sinful (as opposed to today's unhealthy standard for sexual relations) and shameful by the ultra-stringent Christianity of the colonies. 174.65.17.172 (talk) 01:46, 1 October 2023 (UTC)