Rev. John Dickson From 1739 Died July 23, 1747
Rev. John Pool From 1747 Died Dec. 1766
Rev. Thomas Pollen From 1767 Died 1768
Rev. William Bartholomew, A.M. From July 1768 Died Sept. 15, 1780
Rev. Hanford Left Dec. 1793
Rev. Thomas Stewart From Dec. 17, 1793 To Sept. 15, 1815
Rev. Edmund Pope, LL.D. From Sept. 15, 1815 To July 9, 1820
Rev. James Dawn, A.M. From July 16, 1820 Died Jan. 25, 1822
Rev. W. W. Baynes Left Jan. 25, 1823
Rev. John McIntyre Left Dec. 1, 1827
Rev. Thos. Stewart, D.D. Left Dec. 6, 1847
Rev. Wm. Mayhew, M.A. Left Nov. 13, 1860
Rev. Daniel Fidler, B.D. Died Apr. 11, 1863
Rev. Josias Cork Left Sept. 21, 1870
Rev. Henry Clarke } To Oct. 1872
Rev. Edward Clarke }
Rev. Henry Clarke Till April 1894
Archdeacon Henderson
Davis, F.K.C. Died Jan. 1915
The new building is a stone structure with a clerestory of wood. It is
in length 105 ft. 3 in.; width 56 ft., with an apse 13 ft. 6 in. by 23
ft. It is dedicated to St. George. The foundation-stone was laid on St.
George’s Day, 1903, and the building was consecrated St. George’s Day,
1904.
Where =Bluefields= now stands once stood probably the township of
Oristan, one of the three principal early “cities” formed by the
Spaniards in Jamaica, named after a town in Sardinia when that island
was under the crown of Spain. Except for Sevilla (St. Ann’s Bay),
Bluefields was the only town mentioned in the description of Jamaica
supplied by Gage to Cromwell. It was connected by road with Mellila
(near Montego Bay) on the north, and with Esquivel (Old Harbour) to the
east. It had been deserted by the founders as a place of settlement
prior to 1655, although it was adopted as a temporary place of residence
by a number of Spaniards in 1657, before they were finally driven off
the island. Of it Blome writes in his “Description of the Island of
Jamaica, with other Isles and Territories in America” (1672):—
“_Orista_ reguards the _South-Sea_, in which are many _Rocks_, and
amongst their _Banks_, some _Isles_, as _Servavilla_, _Quitosvena_ and
_Serrana_, where _Augustin Pedro Serrano_ lost his _Vessel_, and saved
onely himself, and here in a solitary and lone Condition passed away 3
Yeares; at the end of which time he had the company of a _Marriner_
for 4 _Years_ more, that was likewise there _Ship-wrackt_, and also
alone saved himself.”
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