Which enslaved man in Samuel Parris's household was Tituba's husband?

John Indian was the enslaved man in Samuel Parris’s household who was recorded as Tituba’s husband.

Tituba and John Indian were both enslaved by Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village. Their relationship appears in the surviving records associated with Parris’s household and church. John Indian was also involved in the events that preceded the Salem witch trials: according to later accounts, Mary Sibley asked him to prepare a “witch cake” from rye meal and the girls’ urine to identify the supposed source of the afflictions.

John Indian later became one of the people who accused others during the crisis. His personal background remains uncertain, and historians have debated his origins. The alternatives are people connected with other Salem cases, not Tituba’s husband: William Griggs was the local doctor, while Roger Toothaker and Samuel Wardwell were later accused men. “John Indian” was likely an assigned descriptive name rather than a full hereditary surname.