After we finish with him, he don't want to come back. Old-timers around Treasure Beach, where there are many Jamaicans with blue eyes, blond hair and freckles, agree this place has a Scottish past. But how it came about, no one can say. Popular legend holds that sometime in Jamaica's colonial past, a Scottish ship capsized on a treacherous nearby reef. The sailors swam ashore, and they never left, becoming fishermen and farmers.
Local historians have no physical or documentary evidence of that.
European settlers may have come to Treasure Beach and the surrounding area over time, just as a small group of poor German farmers settled Seaford Town in the Jamaican bush. But others see proof in surnames such as James, Moxam and Parchment.