William Jameson

William Jameson (1807-1847) arrived in Jamaica in 1835 as part of a contingent of missionaries sent out by the United Secession Presbyterian Church (Scotland). A presbytery was formed in 1836, and in 1841 a school for training ministers was opened in Goshen, directed by Jameson until 1846, when he departed for the new mission being started by the Presbyterians in Old Calabar, West Africa. He died there in 1847. That same year the Scottish Missionary Society transferred all its missionaries in Jamaica to the United Secession Church, which then became the United Presbyterian Church in Jamaica. John Clarke, who would later assist Jameson on his arrival at Fernando Po in January 1847, offers considerable praise for the Presbyterians and their work in Jamaica, despite his problem with Jameson in letter 231. See Clarke, Memorials of the Baptist Missionaries in Jamaica (London: Yates and Alexander, 1869), 225-230; Alexander Robb, The Gospel to the Africans: A Narrative of the Life and Labours of the Rev. William Jameson in Jamaica and Old Calabar (Edinburgh: A. Eliot, 1861), 263.