Some of the earliest examples of missions to the Temne and Bullom communities can be traced to men and women among the Nova Scotians in the early 1790s. Boston King, a Methodist, hoped that by resettling in Africa he could preach the gospel to neighbouring Africans. Although King was unable to claim any African converts, his preaching and teaching on the Bullom shore appear to have had more of an impact than the feeble efforts of the Reverend Melville Horne, a missionary from England based in Freetown between 1792 and 1793 (Schwarz, 2003). Recognition of the role Africans could play in missions was central to attempts to educate 20 or more children of settlers and African leaders at a school in Clapham near London between 1799 and 1806. As Bruce Mouser's analysis of this school has demonstrated, the intention was that these children would return to Africa and use their newly acquired education to spread the gospel (King, 1798; Mouser, 2004).