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Puritan minister during the Salem witch trials

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. Accusations by Parris and his daughter against an enslaved woman precipitated an expanding series of witchcraft accusations.

Life and career

Samuel Parris, son of Thomas Parris, was born in London, England to a family of modest financial success and religious nonconformity.

Samuel emigrated to Boston in the early 1660s, where he attended Harvard College at his father's behest. When his father died in 1673, Samuel left Harvard to take up his inheritance in Barbados, where he maintained a sugar plantation.

In 1680, after a hurricane hit Barbados, damaging much of his property, Parris sold a little of his land and returned t