• Title
  'Interesting account of the mutineers of H.M.S. Bounty - original account of the finding the home of the Mutineers - on Pitcairn Island - 1814', by Captain P. Pipon
• Creator
  P. Pipon
• Call number
  DLMSQ 341
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1814
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  942520
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 box of textual material (12 p.) - manuscript copy - 35 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Pitcairn Island was discovered by Philip Carteret in 1767. Due to an error in charting it was not visited again until 1808 when the presence of the 'Bounty' Mutineers was discovered. In 1814 the 'Briton' and the 'Tagus' under the Command of Sir Thomas Staines and Captain Pipon visited the island
• Scope and Content
  'Interesting account of the Mutineers of H.M. ship 'Bounty' under command of Captain Bligh. Original account of the finding the home of the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' after the lapse of twenty-five years on Pitcairn Island by Capt. P. Pipon of the 'Tagus' who in company with Sir Thomas Staines commanding the 'Briton' discovered on the morning of the 17 Septr 1814, the Island inhabited by John Adams (the only mutineer living) and the descendants of the Mutineers', no date, watermark 1813
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2013/D17593/a6908.htm
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.
• General note
  
  Letters, 9-15 May 1946, regarding copying manuscript removed to W.D. Correspondence File
  Transferred from DLSPENCER 365
  Typed transcript copy of this manuscript available at DLMSQ342
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1008791
• Name
  Adams, John, 1764-1829
  Staines, Thomas, Sir, 1776-1830
  Bounty Mutiny, 1789
  Bounty (Ship)
  Bligh, William, 1754-1817
  
• Subject
  Dixson Library (N.S.W.)
  Bounty Mutiny, 1789.
  Mutiny.
  Pitcairn Islanders.
  Tagus (Ship)
  Briton (Ship)
  
• Place
  Pitcairn Island (Pitcairn Islands)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE329647

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