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Subject: Re: [GM-L] Giles Corey look up
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:13:10 EST

In a message dated 11/7/03 10:53:20 AM, writes:

<< Giles, Salem, watchman, 1647. [Ex. Court Rec.] Brought suit 26 (12)
1650. He deposed 17 (4) 1672, age about 55 years. Wife Margaret; child
Deliverance b. 5 (6) 1658. He m. #2, Mary, who "was bought out of a London
ship in
Virginia by the father of Caleb More; who testified to this and to her good
character when she was accused in 1678." [Es. Files.[
She d. 1684, age 63 years. [Gr. st.]
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That's all that Pope says. There's no listing for a Caleb More, so I
don't know who he was. >>


Caleb More bp 1644, was the son of Mayflower passenger Richard More and
Christian Hunter. Richard was illegitimate, a bigamist, convicted of gross
unchastity with another man's wife at age 74. He did not fit in well at Plymouth
and ended up with a tavern in Salem. It is interesting that he could vouch for
anyone's good character, and equally interesting he survived the witch
accusations.
Abby

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