The archival record regarding Margaret Goodfellow, a resident of the village of Dirleton in Haddington, remains sparse, typical of many proceedings during the mid-seventeenth century. On July 25, 1649, Margaret became the subject of a legal process that resulted in a recorded deposition and a signed confession. While the specific nature of the charges brought against her in case C/JO/2672 have not survived in the trial documentation, the existence of these formal records confirms that she was subject to the rigorous judicial scrutiny of the period.
There is a historical possibility that Margaret is the same individual identified in later records as being named by one James Welch in 1662. Despite the finality suggested by the confession recorded on the day of her deposition, the surviving documentation for trial T/JO/109 provides no further information regarding the verdict or the ultimate outcome of the proceedings. Consequently, Margaret remains a figure defined by the brief, administrative echoes of a legal system that left little room for the details of her daily life or the circumstances surrounding her involvement in the witch trials of the era.