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Samuel Parris (1653 – February 27, 1720) was a Puritan minister in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.Also a businessman and one-time plantation owner, he gained notoriety for being the minister of the church in Salem Village, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials of 1692.
Elizabeth Parris (November 28, 1682 – March 21, 1760) [1] was one of the young girls who accused other people of being witches during the Salem witch trials. The accusations made by Parris and her cousin Abigail Williams caused the direct death of 20 Salem residents: 19 were hanged, while another, Giles Corey , was pressed to death .
Elizabeth "Betty" Parris – age 9 and living in Salem Village/Danvers. Daughter of the Rev. Samuel Parris. Sarah Phelps, age 10 and living in Andover; Mary Pickworth, age 17 and living in Salem; Bethshua/Bethsheba Folger-Pope, Age 40 and living in Salem Village/Danvers; Ann Carr-Putnam Sr., age 31 and living in Salem Village/Danvers
March 23: Salem Marshal Deputy Samuel Brabrook arrests four-year-old Dorothy Good. March 24: Corwin and Hathorne examine Rebecca Nurse [5] and Dorothy Good. [6] March 26: John Hathorne, Jonathan Corwin and Rev. John Higginson question Dorothy Good, now in jail. [7] March 28: Elizabeth Proctor is accused of witchcraft.
According to a March 27, 1692 entry by Parris in the Records of the Salem-Village Church, a church member and close neighbor of Rev. Parris, Mary Sibley (aunt of Mary Walcott), directed John Indian, a man enslaved by Parris, to make a witch cake. [89] This may have been a superstitious attempt to ward off evil spirits.
Five women who were hanged as witches more than 330 years ago at Proctor's Ledge during the Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials. Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse and Sarah ...
John Hale (June 3, 1636 – May 15, 1700) was the Puritan pastor of Beverly, Massachusetts, and took part in the Salem witch trials in 1692. He was one of the most prominent and influential ministers associated with the witch trials, being noted as having initially supported the trials and then changing his mind and publishing a critique of them.
Tituba (fl. 1692–1693) was an enslaved Native American [a] woman who was one of the first to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693. She was enslaved by Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. She was pivotal in the trials because she confessed to witchcraft when ...