Samuel Parris Papers, n.d.

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Samuel Parris Papers, n.d.

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Photocopy of "Proposals made by Samuel Parris and partly delivered to ye inhabitants of Salem village at their town meetings, 30 September and 14 October, 1690..."

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Parris, Samuel, 1653-1720

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Samuel Parris (born 1653, London, England – died February 27, 1720, Sudbury, Massachusetts) was the Puritan minister in Salem Village, Massachusetts, during the Salem witch trials. He was also the father of one of the afflicted girls, and the uncle of another. During the witchcraft controversy. His preaching shaped the village's interpretation of the "afflictions." The son of a wealthy British merchant, Parris dropped out of Harvard College in 1673, failed at running an inherited Barbados planta...