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Pilgrim 400 — Immingham Celebrates the Quadricentennial of the Scrooby Separatist Escape to Holland
Written by Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr.   

Pilgrim 400“Pilgrim 400” celebrates “one of Immingham’s proudest moments in1608 as members of a separatist congregation, refusing to comply with religious discrimination in their native England, boarded a Dutch ship moored in a quiet haven near the hamlet of Immingham and sailed for a new life in the Netherlands” writes Shona McIsaac, member of the British Parliament representing that Lincolnshire, England town.

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