who is reverend parris
Reverend Samuel Parris (1653-1720) - Samuel Parris was the Puritan minister in Salem Village, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials, as well as the father of one of the afflicted girls, Elizabeth Parris, and the uncle of another -- Abigail Williams.e died in Sudbury on February 27, 1720. Parris was replaced by the Reverend Joseph Green in 1697, a man who genuinely wanted to heal Salem and started the village on the long and uncertain road to recovery.