Booth is remembered in American colonial history for her role in the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Commotion about witches in Salem had begun in January 1692. Witchcraft was first suspected within the Parris household, a family residing Salem Village. Reverend Samuel Parris had never completed his education at Harvard University and settled for the ministerial position in Salem. At the time, Reverend Parris had a slave, named Tituba working within in his household. There were rumors that she told the girls stories and "did other sorts of practices". After this, Betty Paris and Abilgail Williams, nine and eleven years old, began to experiment with white magic.