biography
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Adams, John
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alias Alexander Smith
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1760–1829)
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| biography:
| British seaman, and a ringleader in the mutiny against Captain William Bligh on the Bounty in 1789. With other mutineers he founded a colony on Pitcairn I. When the island was visited in 1809 by the US sealer Topaz, Adams was the sole European survivor. Revered as the patriarch of the Pitcairn settlement, he received a royal pardon for his part in the mutiny. |
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