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John Adams, known as Jack Adams (4 July 1767 – 5 March 1829), was the last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was John Adams, but he used the name Alexander Smith until he was discovered in 1808 by Captain Mayhew Folger of the American whaling ship Topaz .
Apr 27, 2021 · In September 1793, the Tahitian men killed four of the eight mutineers, including Christian. Within the next decade, all but one of the remaining mutineers, John Adams, died.
John Adams, known as Jack Adams (4 July 1767– 5 March 1829),was the last survivor of the 'Bounty' mutineers on Pitcairn Island.he helped Fletcher Christian seize the ship's arms chest and was among the group who arrested Bligh in his cabin When the American ship "Topaz" arrived at Pitcairn in 1808, the ship's captain found Adams ruling over a ...
The descendants of the Bounty mutineers include the modern-day Pitcairn Islanders as well as a little less than half of the population of Norfolk Island. Their common ancestors were the nine surviving mutineers from the mutiny on HMS Bounty which occurred in the south Pacific Ocean in 1789.
Jun 14, 2019 · When Edward Young succumbed to an asthma attack in 1800, the mutineer John Adams was left the last man standing, to become the unlikely patriarch of a settlement of women and children. John Adams was listed on the Bounty muster as Alexander Smith (a common ruse of seamen who had deserted).
The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch.
John Adams's Story (1825) The most extensive version of John Adams's account of the mutiny and settlement of Pitcairn was published by Frederick W. Beechey in Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait (London: Colburn and Bentley, 1831), 66-95.
