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Reverend Samuel Parris and Elizabeth (Betty) Parris

Reverend Samuel Parris and Elizabeth (Betty) Parris. By Ciarra Vanderveen Ms. DelGrego Junior English 10/16/12. Birth/ death of Samuel Parris. Born in 1653 in Barbados Died February 27, 1720 in Sudbury . Childhood and Education. Samuel Parris grew up in Barbados

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Reverend Samuel Parris and Elizabeth (Betty) Parris

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  1. Reverend Samuel Parris and Elizabeth (Betty) Parris By Ciarra Vanderveen Ms. DelGrego Junior English 10/16/12

  2. Birth/ death of Samuel Parris Born in 1653 in Barbados Died February 27, 1720 in Sudbury

  3. Childhood and Education Samuel Parris grew up in Barbados He was the younger son of a London cloth merchant- Thomas Parris Studied at Harvard At age 20, after his father died, he inherited land in Barbados and moved back after he graduated

  4. Career and Religious Practices After moving back to Barbados, worked in a Caribbean sugar plantation 1680- moved to Boston with his two slaves, one named Tituba 1686- he did not like being a merchant, so he began filling in for absent ministers and speaking at church meetings In July of 1689, Samuel began as a Puritan minister and family settled in the parsonage in Salem, Massachusetts He preached about predestination and damnation of the people

  5. Family life Samuel Parris married Elizabeth Eldridge when he arrived in Boston They had three children together. The first was a son named Thomas, a daughter named Elizabeth (Betty), and another daughter named Susahanna His niece Abigail Williams came to live with him as well

  6. Birth/ Death of Elizabeth (Betty) Parris She was born on November 27, 1682 Died on March 21, 1760

  7. Childhood and Career of Elizabeth Read the bible Take care of the house Sew, clean, cook Attend church services Listen to her father’s preaching- difficulty accepting predestination and damnation She was only 9 when the Salem “epidemic” began

  8. Involvement in the Salem Witch Trials Elizabeth and cousin Abigail Williams began playing games such as “Ring around the Rosie” and fortune telling with the “Venus glass” The Venus glass is an egg white suspended in water where shapes and figures could be seen about the future, i.e. social status and husband’s trade. Both Elizabeth and Abigail began to develop strange symptoms

  9. Symptoms of “Witchcraft” • Elizabeth forgot to run errands and was always unable to concentrate • Pinching, prickling, chocking sensations • Sudden outbursts • screamed during the “Our Father” prayer and threw the bible across the church • denied father’s preaching and spoke as if damnation was “inevitable” • Dr. William Griggs suggested that these symptoms were a result of witchcraft

  10. Salem Witch Trials Both Elizabeth and Abigail accused Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborn of bewitching them Samuel Parris organized meetings and days of fasting to help Elizabeth get better He beat Tituba into confessing about the witchcraft Preached about the awful effects of witchcraft and simply tried to distract attention away from his own family

  11. Continued… Mrs. Parris protested to the government using Elizabeth as a witch finder Elizabeth was sent to live with Stephen Sewall, a distant cousin of Samuel Parris, to recover Isolation helped stop most symptoms

  12. Elizabeth’s family life after Salem Witch Trials Married Benjamin Baron He was a yeoman, trader, and shoemaker in Sudbury They had four children- Thomas, Elizabeth Junior, Catherine, and Susanna

  13. Works Cited Latner, Richard B. "The Salem Witchcraft Site." Salem Witchcraft. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. <http://www.tulane.edu/~salem/>. Linder, Douglas O. "Samuel Parris." Samuel Parris. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. <http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/asa_par.htm>. Rogasta, Seth. "Salem Witch Trials in History and Literature." Rev. Samuel Parris. N.p., 2002. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. <http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/saxon-salem/servlet/SaxonServlet?source=salem/texts/bios.xml>. Walsh, Sarah-Nell. "Elizabeth Parris." Important Persons in the Salem Court Records. N.p., 2001. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. <http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/saxon-salem/servlet/SaxonServlet?source=salem/texts/bios.xml>.

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