Talk:Margaret Kemble Gage

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The article says there is no evidence that Margaret Gage was an informer for the rebels, and the claim comes from one book written two hundred thirty years after the events. Why is this claim in the article at all? The Gages had children together after they left America, so their marriage was evidently solid. The "popular culture" section here is even worse, being unsourced and making a further claim with no proof. Under the idea of WP:Bold, I will remove them and see what happens. But a revert should have some basis better than "Someone says it's true."Princetoniac (talk) 21:23, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I came here to query the claim, too. As currently written, the section on whether or not she's a spy looks like it's fleshed out and well sourced, but that's because most of it is actually just detailing uncontroversial historical fact (the details of the Lexington and Concorde expedition) or trying to turn such fact into innuendo (that Gage sent his wife home after the siege of Boston began). It's not clear that there's really any citation to the claim itself that she might have been a Patriot spy. If one of the cited works does say "Margaret Gage was (or might have been) a Patriot spy", that should be made clearer in the article; if it doesn't, the section should probably be junked. IMHO. Binabik80 (talk) 17:43, 13 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]