He later had some conflict with the college's treasurer, Thomas Danforth, who called him the "de facto treasurer.".
Danforth, along with Daniel Gookin and the Indian missionary Reverend John Eliot, was a vocal support of the Praying Indians, and worked to prevent some of these excesses, at some personal risk.
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William Laud had become archbishop of the Church of England in 1633 and begun a crackdown on Nonconformist religious practices (such as those practiced by the more Calvinist Puritans) that prompted a wave of migration to the New World.
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Miller also wrote the screenplay for the 1996 film version of the play, in which the name Danforth was retained (portrayed by actor Paul Scofield) as the principal judicial antagonist.
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