The sailor who led the mutiny on the _Bounty_ against Lieutenant
Bligh in 1789. Fearing the eventual reprisals of the British
Government, he persuaded a number of his companions to leave Otaheite
and seek fortune among the then unknown islands of the Southern Sea.
They eventually settled at Pitcairn Island, and founded a colony.
John Adams was born in 1754 and died at Pitcairn Island, May 5, 1829,
having fully earned the title by which he was known--“The Patriarch of
Pitcairn.”