Elizabeth (betty) parris fate
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Elizabeth "Betty" Parris (28 November 1682 – 21 March 1760) was the daughter of Reverend Samuel Parris and one of the accusers in the Salem Witch Trials.
Biography[]
Betty Parris was born on 28 November 1682, the daughter of Samuel Parris and his wife Elizabeth; she was the cousin of Abigail Williams. Betty was friends with Abigail and the other Salem girls, and in 1692 the girls danced in the forest with the Parris family's servant Tituba. Reverend Parris found out about it, and the next morning Betty did not open her eyes to wake up. The physician William Griggs said that it was the work of the Devil, and when she did wake up, she attempted to jump out of the window, crying out for her mother. Betty, Abigail, and the other girls began accusing townspeople of being witches, including John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, Marry Warren, George Jacobs, Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and many others. However, the public began to lose belief in witchcraft towards the end of the Salem Witch Trials, and she would not confess to her accusations in the following years. Parris married shoema
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Foundation of Salem Village Parsonage
Members of the Salem Village parsonage household:
Samuel and Elizabeth Parris’s middle child Elizabeth was known to all as Betty Parris. Her behavior in the winter of 1692 greatly alarmed her parents. The 9-year-old became absentminded, stared off into space, and made animal noises. Whatever afflicted her appeared to be contagious. Soon, her cousin Abigail showed similar symptoms and over time, the afflicted throughout Essex County would number more than seventy people.
By mid-February, the condition of Betty and Abigail had worsened, despite attempts to cure them with home remedies. A local physician, Dr. Griggs, the uncle of 17-year-old Elizabeth Hubbard who would soon become afflicted herself, could not find a medical reason for their maladies and declared them “under an Evil Hand.” Prayer did not cure the girls. It was determined that the girls were bewitched. Other “worthy gentlemen of Salem” agreed with the diagnosis.
Reverend Parris was sufficiently worried about his daughter by mid-March that he asked h
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Betty Parris
Accuser in the Salem witch trials
Elizabeth Parris (November 28, 1682 – March 21, 1760)[1] was one of the young girls who accused other people of being witches during the Salem witch trials. The accusations made by Parris and her cousin Abigail Williams caused the direct death of 20 Salem residents: 19 were hanged, while another, Giles Corey, was pressed to death.[2]
Early life
Parris was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1682.[1] Her father, Samuel Parris, was a well-known minister in the Salem Church. Her mother, Elizabeth Parris, died a few years after the witch trials. Her older brother Thomas Parris was born in 1681, and her younger sister Susanna Parris was born in 1687. Others living in the Parris household included Betty's orphaned cousin, Abigail Williams, and Tituba, a slave from Barbados.[1]
Her father was appointed the Minister of Salem Church in 1688 following a community effort to find a new minister.[3] His family, including his wife Elizabeth, son Thomas, daughters Betty an
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