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 shoemaker Benjamin Barron in 1710 and died in 1760 in Concord, Massachusetts.