Samuel Parris
Colonial merchant and clergyman · United States · On the map · Business Professionals · Lived 1653 to 1720 · aged 67
Samuel Parris 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.
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Accusations by Parris and his daughter against an enslaved woman precipitated an expanding series of witchcraft accusations.
