What was the name of the first accuser, the daughter of Reverend Parris?

The first accuser who was Reverend Samuel Parris’s daughter was Betty Parris. Born Elizabeth Parris, she was nine years old when the Salem witchcraft crisis began in early 1692 in Salem Village, now Danvers, Massachusetts.

Betty and her cousin Abigail Williams, Parris’s eleven-year-old niece, began suffering dramatic fits and unusual behavior. The girls eventually accused Tituba, an enslaved woman in the Parris household, along with Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne, of bewitching them. Those accusations helped trigger the wider witch-hunt.

Betty’s name is sometimes given as Elizabeth Parris, but Betty Parris is the familiar historical name and the canonical answer to this question. She later moved away from Salem Village and did not become a major courtroom accuser in the way that Ann Putnam Jr. and some others did.

The crisis ultimately led to more than 200 accusations, 19 hangings, and the pressing death of Giles Corey. Betty herself was never executed or formally convicted of wrongdoing.