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In this clip, from a silent film telling the story of the Puritans, Roger Williams’s wife tells the pilgrims that have come to capture him that she does not know where he is, and Winthrop is again elected governor of New England.The clip opens on a MCU of Roger Williams’s wife at the bedside of their child looking worried. She hangs her head. In the daytime, she is shown with her daughter as some soldiers come in looking for her husband. She shakes her head. Roger Williams stands in a snowy forest with an Indian. Next inside a house, Anne Hutchinson speaks to a crowd. She is shown in CU looking passionate. Harry Vane is also present. There is a CU of some written text. Harry Vane is not elected governor of the colony as the people stand beside Winthrop, and he decides to go back to England. He shakes hands with Winthrop and exits.