Talk:Samuel Parris

Vandalism Reverts
If anyone looks at the history, you may notice that I reverted this article to a much earlier state. Vandalism had been left through numerous bot-reverts, so I tried to clear it out.

--Wdflake 22:43, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

It might be fun to note that Rev. Parris is interred in the Lower Village Cemetary in Stow, MA, where he served as Minister after leaving Salem Village. ~Brench

I have information Rev. Parris is buried in Wayland, Mass., formerly part of Sudbury, where he died. Brench, could you tell me the approximate location of his stone if it still exists? KSpott (talk) 02:35, 19 July 2009 (UTC)KSpott

December 15, 2010
The edits by 64.90.21.130 on December 15, 2010 all appear to be acts of vandalism. In attempting to edit 2 of them I may have made matters worse (slightly). The deletion of the sentence about Barbados does not appear to be well founded (and makes the remaining sentences around the omission non-sensical). There is no source for the birth attribution to Josephson, England (which I don't believe exists) rather than London. Why was the fiction section deleted? And so forth. All the edits should probably be reverted.AnthroMimus (talk) 09:41, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

I advocate replacement of some of the info about the origin of his 2 fairly important slaves, especially the phrase about his father's estate. John5Russell3Finley (talk) 17:10, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

I too advocate replacement of the fiction section.

The following is from a 200912 edition of the instant article and includes a transcript of the sources cited clearly this was written before the current mandate/fad for inline citations on all information: "When his father died in 1673, Samuel left Harvard to take up his inheritance in Barbados, where he maintained a sugar plantation and bought two Carib slaves to tend his household, one by the name of Tituba Indian and the other John Indian."

^ "A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials". Smithsonian Magazine. October 24, 2007. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/brief-salem.html#ixzz0Q70R5Ay9. Retrieved 2009-09-04. "Controversy also brewed over Reverend Samuel Parris, who became Salem Village's first ordained minister in 1689, and was disliked because of his rigid ways and greedy nature. ..." Further reading Fowler, Samuel P., An Account of the Life and Character of the Rev. Samuel Parris, of Salem Village, (Salem 1857) Gragg, Larry. A Quest for Security: The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653-1720. Greenwood: New York. 1990. ISBN 978-0313272820 Upham, Charles W., Salem Witchcraft. Reprint from the 1867 edition, in two volumes. Dover Publications: Mineola, NY. 2000. ISBN 978-0486408996 Webber, C.H. and W. S. Nevins, Witchcraft in Salem Village, (Boston, 1892)

Failing further feedback on this I will post the info from it. Would some kind person with access to this stuff please find an inline citation for this Please ? John5Russell3Finley (talk) 17:21, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

What would be the Myers Briggs type for this man?
I'm guessing INTJ.--24.62.109.225 (talk) 22:19, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Dictionary of American Biography
I incorporated material from Dictionary of American Biography. It has a significantly different tone from the other sources. Rather than having the children accusing Tituba, it cites a church member who instructs his slaves in how to discover witches. It says he initially resorted to prayer and fasting to cure the children, whose illness physicians and ministers attributed to "an evil hand." I didn't use this material, but rather information DAB had on his later life. 71.233.62.241 (talk) 17:39, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

I found some information related to this person a while ago
Earlier in the chat William Phips posted his will which said that Samuel is SK, but then again RT was already taken so idk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:56A:F390:2A00:A5A8:2EA:6323:6497 (talk) 03:58, 18 June 2021 (UTC)