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Photograph of Hampden Manse, Jamaica. The house is a large wood and stone built building constructed on a hill. There is an elevated veranda to the front of the house. The manse is likely on Hampden Estate in the parish of St James which in 1811 belonged to Archibald Stirling.This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Jamaica. In 1800 the Scottish Missionary Society sent three missionaries to Jamaica. Two died of yellow fever within weeks of arrival but the third became a pioneer missionary. In 1824 a second venture travelled to Jamaica by invitation of local planters to instruct their slaves. Scottish missionaries worked at Montego Bay in the 19th century and in 1836 the first presbytery of the Jamaican Church was constituted here.
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Lantern Slides
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