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Joshua W. Hill (15 April 1773 – 1844?) [1] was an American adventurer. In 1832 he arrived on Pitcairn Island which was first inhabited in the 1790s by British mutineers from HMS Bounty and some Tahitians who joined them.
Aug 15, 2019 · On 28 October 1832, a 59-year-old man named Joshua Hill landed at Pitcairn Island, the famous haven of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian captives. He claimed a romantic and peripatetic curric...
Feb 3, 2020 · In The Pretender of Pitcairn Island: Joshua W. Hill—The Man Who Would Be King among the Bounty Mutineers, Tillman W. Nechtman’s premise is that Hill’s great lie (about his authority) has misled historians even more than it did contemporaries (300).
Joshua W. Hill (15 April 1773 – 1844?) was an American adventurer. In 1832 he arrived on Pitcairn Island , which was first inhabited in the 1790s by British mutineers from HMS Bounty and some Tahitians who joined them.
This illustrated talk chronicles the mysterious period from 1832-1838 when Joshua W. Hill lived at and governed over Pitcairn Island – pretending the entire time that he had permission to do so from London’s colonial authorities.
Sir George Elliott has left us with what may be the only image of Joshua Hill. It is a faded, vague, pencil drawing that shows an older man with a balding scalp, flabby jowls, and small round glasses. The picture is labeled “Joshua Hill: The Self-Instituted King of Pitcairn Island,” and that label is telling, for it implies a certain
It argues that the Tahitian women who sailed to Pitcairn onboard the Bounty were active agents in the island’s early history, and it suggests that Joshua Hill drew on their role in his own vision of the island.
