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Mayhew Folger (March 9, 1774 – September 1, 1828) was an American whaler who captained the sealing ship Topaz that rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in 1808, whilst one of HMS Bounty's mutineers was still living.
FOLGER, Mayhew Captain of the American sealer Topaz. Folger was a skipper from Nantucket who worked for Messrs Boardman and Pope, dealers in seal skins. With their ship Topaz he had left Boston harbor on Sunday, April 5, 1807, to hunt for seals in the South Pacific.
Nantucket-born sea captain Mayhew Folger is credited with three global circumnavigations and the 1808 rediscovery of Pitcairn Island and the sole surviving mutineer from The Bounty and his descendants.
Mayhew Folger was an American whaler who captained the sealing ship Topaz that rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in 1808. Background. Mayhew was born on March 12, 1774, in Nantucket, Massachusetts to William Folger and Ruth Coffin.
Nov 30, 2016 · Mayhew Folger's 1808 Discovery of the Settlement on Pitcairn's Island as it First Appeared in the American Press: Late 1809-Early 1810. MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY. Extract of a letter from Buenos Ayres, to a merchant in Cork, dated June 19, 1809,
Apr 16, 2018 · The tale of Stark County's close ties to both an historical event and a pop culture phenomenon is retold in Section 10 -- "Unusual Persons" -- of the book, under the title "Capt. Mayhew Folger...
Captain Mayhew Folger, discoverer of the the mutineers' colony on Pitcairn's Island, writes the Admiralty, in the midst of the War of 1812, noting his discovery and sending the Bounty's asimuth compass that had been given to my by Adam Smith (i.e. John Adams) in 1808.
