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American Newspaper Account of the 1814 'Discovery' of Pitcairn's Island by the British Warships
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Capt. Staines, of the British frigate Briton, writes, that on his passage from the Marqueses, September 17, he fell in with an island where none is laid down in his charts – lat. 25, 4, S. lon. 130, 25 W. – and found on it forty persons who spoke English, being the descendants of Christian and other mutineers of the Bounty – who proceeded there from Otaheite, where the ship was burnt. A man named John Adams was the only surviving Englishman. The descendants had been brought up in a moral manner. A son of Christian's was the first child born in the island – and is now 25 years of age – and is called Thursday-October Christian. The island is considered that called Pitcairn's, though erroneously laid down. They had never been visited but by one ship before – and that was the Topaz, Folger, of Boston – about 6 years since. |
Source:This transcription was made from the Merrimack Intelligencer (Haverhill, Massachusetts), May 27, 1815, Page: [1]. Readex: America's Historical Newspapers. Web. 30 Nov. 2016. Articles in the following newspapers are essentially identical:
Last updated by Tom Tyler, Denver, CO, USA, Dec 3 2021.
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