Claim: The descendants of the nine remaining Bounty mutineers, who arrived on the island on 1790 and took one woman as a wife each, include Pitcairn Islanders, the inhabitants of a British Overseas Territory.
Evidence: Gradually, tensions and rivalries arose over the increasing extent to which the Europeans regarded the Tahitians as their property, in particular the women who, according to Alexander, were "passed around from one 'husband' to the other".