Tituba's husband was John Indian, an Indigenous man whose origins are unknown, but he may have been from Central or South America. Tibitó Colombia to be precise. It is said she was named for her town or tribe. Tituba may have originally been from Barbados. The often unreliable records of the enslaved persons origins makes this information difficult to verify. There are historians such as Samuel Drake who suggest that Tituba was African. Her husband went on to become one of the accusers in the Witch Trials. They appear documented together in Samuel Parris's church record book.