Life After The Trials
In 1710 at the age of twenty-eight, Elizabeth Parris married Benjamin Baron, a yeoman, trader, cordwainer, and shoemaker, in Sudbury and led a very ordinary existence. She and Benjamin bore four children, Thomas, Elizabeth Jr., Catherine, and Susanna. Betty survived her husband by six years, succumbing to illness in their Concord home on March 21, 1760.
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