Scrooby Congregation

Scrooby Congregation

The Scrooby Congregation was a collection of seperatists, that lived in Scrooby (hence their name). Starting in 1608 the Congregation started to emigrate to Holland where they would then have the freedom to worship. After arriving at Holland they soon realized that being foreigners,they could only take the most unskilled jobs, and were exempt, from working organizations. The Scroobies also noticed that their children were growing up more Dutch than English. The Congregation decided to emigrate to the Americas, where their children could be English, and they could worship freely.

Sources

*American History, a Survey eleventh edition by Alan Brinkly


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