Photograph of Rosehall House, a Georgian mansion built in Montego Bay, Jamaica in the 1770s. It is set on a hill side and has a panoramic view over the coast. Rose Hall was restored in the 1960s and is now largely a museum for tourists. 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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