Salem Village Church - The Story of the Putnam's

Samuel Paris took over as the fourth minister of the Salem Village congregation in 1689. Unlike his three predecessors, he was even ordained by the community there. He refused to give church membership to anyone who wasn't willing to take on the conservative practices that he taught. Historian Marilyn K. Roach: "If Paris was meant to be a seed for change, he'd been planted in toxic, unfriendly soil"