When Martin Luther Parris was born on 19 August 1795, in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Martin Parris, was 35 and his mother, Julia Drew, was 25. He died on 9 March 1824, in his hometown, at the age of 28, and was buried in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
English: variant of Paris .
French: rare variant of Paris and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
History: Samuel Parris, of Salem witchcraft fame, was a clergyman born in London and came to Boston, MA, in or before 1674. He had five children from two marriages and lived out his years in Sudbury, MA. — This surname (see 2 above) is listed in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of South Carolina.
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