Father and uncle of Salem witch trials accusers; accuser along with his daughter and niece
Spouses
Elizabeth Eldridge
(m. 1680; died 1696)
Dorothy Noyes
(m. 1699)
Children
Thomas Parris Elizabeth Parris Susannah Parris
Relatives
Abigail Williams (niece)
Samuel Parris (1653 – February 27, 1720) was the Puritan minister in Salem Village, Massachusetts, during the Salem witch trials. Accusations by Parris and his daughter against an enslaved woman precipitated an expanding series of witchcraft accusations.[1]
by Parris and his daughter against an enslaved woman precipitated an expanding series of witchcraft accusations. SamuelParris, son of Thomas Parris, was...
pressed to death. Her father, SamuelParris, was a well-known minister in the Salem Church. Her mother, Elizabeth Parris, died a few years after the witch...
witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693. She was owned by SamuelParris, the minister of Salem Village, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay...
Abigail Williams was living with her relative, Betty Parris's father, the village pastor SamuelParris, along with his two slaves Tituba and John Indian...
(1985-89), Howard Finnegan in Robert Altman’s Short Cuts, Reverend SamuelParris in the 1996 film adaptation of The Crucible, and as Senator Robert Kelly...
February 25, 1691], when Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Parris, related to the Reverend SamuelParris, claimed to be bewitched under her hand. The young girls...
Massachusetts Nicholas Noyes, of Salem SamuelParris, of Salem Village – Father of Betty Parris and uncle of Abigail Williams Samuel Willard, of Groton, and Boston...
Miniseries 2002 The Pact Michael Television film Salem Witch Trials Rev. SamuelParris 2003 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Lieutenant Alan Brooks Episode:...
Parris is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: Parris Afton Bonds, American novelist Parris Campbell (born 1997), American...
of Colonel Alexander Parris, the Public Treasurer of South Carolina. After his death 1736, it gradually became known as Parris Island (and the name Port...
Salem Village's choice of SamuelParris as its first ordained minister. On June 18, 1689, the villagers agreed to hire Parris for £66 annually, "one third...
one of the initially afflicted children, Betty Parris, daughter of Salem Village's minister SamuelParris, and shortly afterward Betty's "afflictions" appear...
be satisfactory to him." By contrast, the Nurse family never forgave SamuelParris, the village minister during the trials, whom they held personally to...
conducted by Hathorne, co-signed by Jonathan Corwin, and recorded by Rev. SamuelParris and/or Ezekiel Cheever Jr. On September 22, 1692, the date of the final...
outcasts, albeit for different reasons. Tituba was an enslaved woman for SamuelParris and his family; she and Sarah Good were both poor women, whereas Osborne...
Theatre Workshop, New York, New York). March–April 2016: Plays Rev. SamuelParris in Arthur Miller's The Crucible opposite Ben Whishaw, Saoirse Ronan...
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