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Mills, John

"He was the oldest of the Bounty mutineers. His early history suggests a sadistic bully-boy. On H.M.S. Mediator, he was known to send midshipmen on fools' errands in order to steal their food. Mills was indeed a mystery. His record on board the Bounty was exemplary. The only log record against him records his refusal to dance, which cost him his ration of grog. He was apparently a guard to the party that arrested Bligh during the mutiny. His daughter indicated that he was the Pitcairner who most grieved at the destruction of the Bounty, which had been their home for so long. Until that time, and even up to his death, he never quite gave up the hope that he would someday return to England, even if it had to be at the risk of his own life. Mills, of all the mutineers, can be said to have made a fatal, and perhaps very wrong, choice, a choice he lived to regret. His short life on Pitcairn, however, was well above average. He was truly surprised when attacked by the Tahitian men, as he felt he had a good relationship with them."

-- thePeerage

"A tall man (5'10"), and the oldest of the mutineers, the Bounty Gunner's Mate had a fair complexion, light brown hair, was strong-made, and raw-boned. He had a scar on his right armpit due to an abcess."

-- RootsWeb

Local Links

• Genealogy
  • Mills, John
• The Pitcairn Island Register 1790-1794
  • Massacre of part of the mutineers (Christian, Mills, Brown, Williams, and Martin)
• Pitcairn Island Register - Sep 7-8, 1856
  • from Elizabeth Young (daughter of Mills of the "Bounty")
• The Island, The People, and the Pastor - Ch. IV Pitcairn's Island
  • Elizabeth Young, daughter of the late John Mills,
• The Island, the People, and the Pastor - Ch. IV, The Mutineers
  • JOHN MILLS ... Gunner's Mate.
• The Island, the People, and the Pastor - Ch. IV, Murder
  • Christian, Mills, Williams, Martin, and Brown,
  • Mills was the next.
• The Island, the People, and the Pastor - Ch. VI, Population
  • John Mills left no son.
• The Island, the People, and the Pastor, Ch. X Register 1790-3
  • the massacre of Fletcher Christian, John Mills,
• The Island, the People, and the Pastor, Ch. XIV Confirmation
  • from Elizabeth Young (daughter of Mills, of the Bounty,
• Pitcairn Island and the Islanders, Bounty Descendants
  • John Mills . . . . . . . Quarter-master.
  • the descendants of Christian, Young, Quintal, M'Coy, Mills, and Adams;
  • John Mills married a Tahitian woman.
  • the widow of John Mills.
• Pitcairn Island and the Islanders, Pitcairn's Island, The Mutineers
  • as servants to M'Coy, Mills, Brown, and Quintal.
  • Mills, M'Coy, and Manale, were then working
  • told Mills he thought it the cry of a wounded man;
  • but Mills thought it was Christian's wife
  • they then went to where Mills was working,
  • called to Mills, and asked him
  • Mills then told Manale that he might go.
  • how they might destroy Mills and M'Coy.
  • and then ran and told Mills to run into the bush,
  • which he supposed had killed Mills,
  • Adams took Mills's widow and two children,
• Pitcairn Island and the Islanders, Register 1790-1799
  • (Christian, Mills, Brown, Williams, and Martin)
• Pitcairn Islanders 1859-1880 - Second Party Returns
  • daughters, respectively, of John Mills and John Adams,
• Young's Story of Pitcairn Island, The Arrival at Pitcairn
  • Especially was it so with John Mills,
  • Fletcher Christian, John Mills, Isaac Martin,
  • The daughter of John Mills
• Young's Story of Pitcairn Island, The Mutineers Discovered
  • John Mills, two;
• Young's Story of Pitcairn Island, John Buffett and John Evans
  • One of them, Johnny, the only son of John Mills,
• Young's Story of Pitcairn Island, Second Party Returns
  • only daughter of John Mills, of the Bounty,
• Young's Story of Pitcairn Island, Visit of Rear-Admiral de Horsey
  • daughter of John Mills, gunner's mate of the Bounty,
• 20 Years Residence on Pitcairn's Island - Part I
  • Brown, gardener, Mills, gunner's mate,
  • Mills was next shot coming to Brown's house.
• John Adams's Story of the Mutineers at Pitcairn.
  • was at work with Mills and McCoy;
  • requested Mills to allow him (Menalee) to assist them
  • Mills agreed; and the four, being united,
  • McCoy, hearing his groans, observed to Mills,
  • but Mills replied,
  • in order to separate Mills and McCoy.
  • McCoy immediately communicated the alarm to Mills,
  • but Mills, being quite satisfied that one of the blacks
  • Mills had scarcely been left alone,
• Visit of the Tuscan, Frederick D. Bennett 1834
  • when Mills, the gunner's mate, proposed
  • Fletcher Christian and John Mills were shot on the same day,
  • Mills had an only son,
  • His second wife was the widow of Mills;
• Morayshire to Norfolk - Curgenven
  • also Elizabeth Young, a daughter of John Mills,