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American Newspaper Account of the 1814 'Discovery' of Pitcairn's Island by the British Warships
Briton (Captain Staines) and
Tagus (Captain Pipon).
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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 waqs the Topaz, Folger, of Boston – about 6 years since.
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NOTES:
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:
- New-England Palladium & Commercial Advertiser, (Boston, Massachusetts), May 23, 1815, Page: [2]. Readex: America's Historical Newspapers. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.
- "Late & Interesting News from England", Intelligencer (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), May 25, 1815, Page: [1]. Readex: America's Historical Newspapers. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.
- "Discovery", Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.), June 7, 1815, Page: [3]. Readex: America's Historical Newspapers. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.
- New Bedford Mercury (New Bedford, Massachusetts), June 9, 1815, Page: [1]. Readex: America's Historical Newspapers. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.
- "Discovery", Mechanic's Gazette
- "The Latest from Europe", Hallowell Gazette (Hallowell, Maine), June 14, 1815, Page: [3]. Readex: America's Historical Newspapers. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.
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