Pitcairn Island - the early history

Revised Jun 22 2021

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The Island, the People, and the Pastor
Chapter X

CHAPTER X.

SOME ACCOUNT OP THE LAWS OF PITCAIRN—THE ISLAND REGISTER—REUBEN AND FRANCIS NOBBS—REUBEN'S LETTER TO ADMIRAL MORESBY—REUBEN'S LAST ILLNESS—HIS DEATH.

SOME account of the Laws of Pitcairn will be expected by the reader. The simple code of the Islanders, whilst they inhabited that spot, will serve to show with how few laws a right-minded Christian community may be governed. Early in their history they laid down a rule for themselves, never to make a law until it should be wanted.