Rose Hall's heir died in debt, his widow sold her rights for £200, and a novel later made her the "White Witch" who killed three husbands

Kind 2, with the record. Rosa Kelly married four times. Her fourth husband, John Palmer, owned the neighbouring Palmyra estate. Rose Hall great house was finished in the 1770s. Rosa died in 1790 and left the property to Palmer. He died in 1797 and left it in trust to his sons, who died childless. In 1818 the estates passed to his grandnephew John Rose Palmer, who came to Jamaica to recover them from the Court of Chancery. He became receiver of his own estates and mortgaged the receivership to a London creditor. On 28 March 1820 he married Annie Mary Paterson, aged 17. He died at Rose Hall in 1827, aged 42, about £6,000 in debt, with a personal estate of about £1,137. Annie had no claim on the estates. In 1830 she sold her rights to Rose Hall and Palmyra to a Dr Bernard for £200. She died in 1846 near Anchovy and left her unvalued estate to her goddaughter. The legend says Annie was the "White Witch of Rose Hall", who murdered three husbands and enslaved men and was killed herself. Jamaica Archives archivist Geoffrey Yates traced it to an 1868 pamphlet by John Castello and Herbert de Lisser's 1929 novel, and found "no murder, no motive and no evidence". Michele and John Rollins bought the house in 1977, and it is shown as the White Witch's home.