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4 unusual facts about Thomas Danforth


Henry Dunster

He later had some conflict with the college's treasurer, Thomas Danforth, who called him the "de facto treasurer.".

Thomas Danforth

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.

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.

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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