World Tokens

Jamaica, Communion Tokens, NEW BROUGHTON, Broughton Place Church, octagonal white metal, 1845, legend around jp monogram, rev. revd. a.g. hogg above date, 26 x 21mm, 7.63g/12h (Lyall 167; Burzinski 1036; Tankersley 316 [= Noble III, 400 = Climpson 1931]). Good fine, very rare £150-200

Revd James Paterson (†1842) emigrated from Auchtergavan, Scotland, in 1834 and, after working in Montego Bay for a few months, preached his first sermon at Broughton Place, Jamaica, in 1835. The church was completed in 1842, the same year that Paterson was killed when he was thrown from his horse. Revd. Andrew Gordon Hogg (†1886), ordained in Broughton Place, Edinburgh in 1844, minister from 1845 until his retirement in 1882, was a witness to the killings which led to the outbreak of the Morant Bay rebellion of 1865