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Description list of the pirates remaining on board his Majesty’s armed vessel Bounty, on the 28th April, 1789.

Fletcher Christian, mas’r mate; aged 24 years; 5 feet 9 inches high; very dark complexion; dark-brown hair; strong made; a star tatowed on his left breast; backside tatowed; a little bow-legged; he is subject to a violent perspiration in his hands, so that he soils any thing he handles.

George Stewart, mid.; aged 23 years; 5 feet 7 inches high; good complexion; dark hair; slender made; narrow-chested and long neck; on his left breast is tatowed a star, and also one on the left arm, on which likewise is tatowed a heart with darts; tatowed on the backside; very small features.

Peter Heywood, mid.; aged 17 years; 5 feet 7 inches high; fair complexion; light-brown hair; well proportioned; very much tatowed, and on the right leg is tatowed the legs of Man, as the impression of that coin is; at this time he had not done growing; he speaks with the Isle of Man accent.

Edward Young, mid.; aged 22 years; 5 feet 8 inches high; dark complexion, and rather a bad look; dark-brown hair; strong made; has lost several of his fore teeth, and those that remain are all rotten; a small mole on the left side of the throat, and on the right arm is tatowed a heart and dart through it, with E.Y. underneath, and the date of the year 1788 or 1789, we are not sure.

Charles Churchill, ship’s corporal; aged 30 years; 5 feet 10 inches high; fair complexion; short light-brown hair; baldheaded; strong made; the fore-finger of his left hand crooked, and the hand shows the mark of a severe scald; tatowed in several parts of the body.

James Morrison, boatsw’s mate; aged 28 years; 5 feet 8 inches high; sallow complexion; long black hair; slender made; lost the use of the 1st joint of the fore-finger of his right hand; tatowed with star under his left breast, and a garter round his left leg with the motto: “Honi soit qui mal y pense“; has been wounded in one of his arms w’th a musquet ball.

John Mills, gunner’s mate; aged 40 years; 5 feet 10 inches high; fair complexion; light-brown hair; a strong raw-boned man; a scar in his right armpit occasioned by an abcess.

John Millward, A.B.; aged 22 years; 5 feet 5 inches high; brown complexion; dark hair; strong made; tatowed under the pit of the stomach with a Taoomy or breast-plate of Otaheite.

Matthew Thompson, A.B.; aged 40 years; 5 feet 8 inches high; very dark complexion; short black hair; slender made; has lost the joint of his great toe of his right foot; is tatowed.

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Wm. Mickoy, A.B.; aged 25 years; 5 feet 6 inches high; fair complexion; light brown hair; strong made; a scar where he has been stabbed in the belly; a small scar under his chin; is tatowed.

Matthew Quintal; aged 21 years; 5 feet 5 inches high; fair complexion; light brown hair; strong made; very much tatowed; tatowed on the backside and other places.

Jno. Sumner; aged 24 years; 5 feet 8 inches high; fair complexion; brown hair; slender made; a scar upon the left cheek, and tatowed in several places.

Thomas Burkitt; aged 26 years; 5 feet 9 inches high; fair complexion; very much marked with small pox; brown hair; well made, and very much tatowed.

Isaac Martin; aged 30 years; 5 feet 11 inches high; sallow complexion; short brown hair; raw-boned; tatowed on his left breast with a star.

Wm. Muspratt; aged 30 years; 5 feet 6 inches high; dark complexion; brown hair; slender made; very strong black beard; scared under his chin; tatowed in several places of his body.

Henry Hilbrant; aged 25 years; 5 feet 7 inches high; fair complexion; sandy hair; very strong made; his left arm shorter than the right, having been broke; is an Hanoverian, and speaks bad English. He is tatowed in several places.

Alexander Smith; aged 22 years; 5 feet 5 inches high; brown complexion; brown hair; strong made; pitted with the small pox; very much tatowed; scar on his right foot.

John Williams; aged 25 years; 5 feet 5 inches high; dark complexion; black hair; slender made; a scar on the back part of his head; is a native of Guernsey, and speaks French; is tatowed.

Richd. Skinner; aged 22 years; 5 feet 8 inches high; fair complexion; light brown hair; very well made; scars on both ankles and on his right shin; is tatowed; and by trade a hair dresser.

Thos. Ellison; aged 17 years; 5 feet 3 inches high; fair complexion; dark hair; strong made; has got his name tatowed on his right arm, and dated Oct’r 25th, 1788.

Wm. Brown, botanist assistant; aged 27 years; 5 feet 8 inches high; fair complexion; dark brown hair; rather slender made; a remarkable scar on one of his cheeks, which contracts the eye lid and runs down to his throat, occasioned by the King’s Evil; is tatowed.

Michl. Byrne; aged 28 years; 5 feet 6 inches high; fair complexion, and is almost blind; plays the fidle; has the mark of an issue in the back of his neck.

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Joseph Coleman, armourer; aged 40 years; 5 feet 6 inches high; fair complexion; grey hair; strong made; a heart tatowed on one of his arms. This man declared to me publickly when I was in the boat that he knew nothing of the transaction, and begged of me to remember he told me of it, and that he was kept against his consent.

Thos. M’Intosh, carpt’s crew; aged 28 years; 5 feet 6 inches high; fair complexion; light brown hair; slender made; pitted by the small pox.

Charles Norman, carp. mate; aged 26 years; 5 feet 9 inches high; fair complexion; light brown hair; slender made; pitted by the small pox, and has a remarkable motion with his head and eyes.

These two last, M’Intosh and Norman, declared as Coleman had done. Michl. Byrne, I was told, had no knowledge of what was doing.