The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-17
Bridgeport Nurse May
 Become Real Qneen of
 Island in Pacific Ocean
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 sician's art and left on a missionary boat that touched at Pitcairn She landed at Samoa where she graduated from the German school of nursing She has journeyed over America, praeticing her art and learning medi- cine, surgery and dentistry. She has sought to return for a period of eight years. It is only recently the Pan anna Canal has opened opportunities for passage by boat, which will soon be availed by Miss Mccoy.
 In preparation for her return she is known to have desired, among other things, to take with her from Bridgeport a piano, heretofore unseen on the island where however a small organ sent as a. gift by Queen Vic toria in 1870 still exists. The piano was recently purchased by the s. F. Lee Piano Co., in Cannon street and if safely transported will be among the few American products on the far away island.
 The history of Pitcairn in substance follows: In December 1878, the Bri- tish armed sloop Bounty, William Bligh, commander, set sail from Eng land to convey bread-fru1t from Ia hiti to the West Indies. A mutiny broke out among the crew The com mander and part of the crew were set adrift by the nutineers but manag- ed to make his way to Timor in the
 
 at first returned to Tahiti. Some re- mained, and six of these were ulti- mately courtmartialed in England. Three were executed in 1792.
 Meanwhile, in 1790. a party con- sisting of Fletcher Christian, the leader of the nutiny, eight English men, six Polynesian~ men and 12 Poly nesian women, taken as wives and ser wants by the Englishmen who sought to evade punishment for their crime, were taken in the Bounty to Pit cairn Island, which had been discov- cred in 1767 by the Boston sailing vessel Topaz and named after Major Pitcairn of Bunker Hill fame.
 The Bounty was destroyed and utilized to build huts for the settlers Treachery and debauchery filled the first three years of the annals of the beautiful but isolated island, which unlike the coral isles of the Pacific was volcanic in origin and towers in peaks 2.00O feet above sea level, though only five miles in circumfer- ence.
 The death of one Eng1ishman's wife caused desire for those of the Tahi-z tians with the result that murder fol- 1900 all the men were dead except John Adams, who rose to the sense of his responsibility and successfully trained the youthful generation left in his charge. These were male and female descendants of Adams, Edwin Young, Matthew Mccoy and Matthew QuintaI, which names with those of George Hum Nobbs who later joined the colony alone exist
 In the course of 50 years the island was visited by only five or six vessels. One of these brought John Buffett in 1819 and John Evans, who were be- sought to leave ship and teach the in- Io< ,%c- Church of England ritual and a Bible for heir guidance. The shipmasters were astound0d to find a colony that spoke English perfectly though in appearance slightly tinged with the swarthy complexion of the South seas.
 At the death of Adams in 1929, Nobbs, an Englishman, who had drift ed to the island from the Chilean coast undertook the government which be- Tahiti in 1880. The Pitcairn men disapproved of both the climate and morals of the Tahitians and soon re- turned to Pitcairn.
 About 1881 an adventurer named Joshua Hill, nearly 70 years of age, appeared and claimed government au- thority. He took the reins of govern ment, tyrannized over the islanders until forcib1y removed by a British man of war in 1888.
 Again in 1856 the whole of the islanders-60 married persons and 134 young men, women and children were transferred to Norfolk island by the British government but in 1858 two families the McCoys and Youngs chose to return and their example was