Life in Holland
Degory Priest was one of the first Separatists to arrive in Leiden, Holland, residing in that city by November 1611. He was a professional hatter. It is believed he came from one of the centers from which the earliest Separatists came - the London/Middlesex region. At his betrothal to Sarah Vincent in Leiden, he proclaimed that he was from London.
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