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Williams, John

"A native of Stepney, a neighborhood of St. Peter Port on the Isle of Guernsey in the English Channel, He spoke French as easily as his accented English. A slim, dark man, 5'5" tall, black hair with a noticeable scar on the back part of his head.

"He was the subject of the lightest reported punishment with the cat, 'six lashes for neglect of duty in heaving the lead' at Capetown. He was the man who bolstered the crew's resistance in the matter of the missing cheeses, reporting that he carried them to Bligh's house.

"He became both Pitcairn's blacksmith and sawmill operator. He was the nearest thing the Bounty crew had to a skilled mechanic, and was admired for his skill. After his wife was killed in a fall off a cliff, he was a lonely figure, isolated himself with his forge making the tools the colony needed. His enforced bachelorhood led him to severe depression, and in 1792, he announced that he was taking the cutter and leaving Pitcairn. In order to dissuade him, he was allowed to take one of the two women who were being shared by the six Tahitian men. This ultimately led to the killings of the five crewmen."

-- RootsWeb

Local Links

• Pitcairn Island Register - 1790-1794
  • — Fastoo . Wife of John Williams dies
• The Pitcairn Island Register 1790-1794
  • Massacre of part of the mutineers (Christian, Mills, Brown, Williams, and Martin)
• The Island, the People, and the Pastor - Ch. IV, The Mutineers
  • JOHN WILLIAMS ... Ditto.
• The Island, the People, and the Pastor - Ch. IV, Murder
  • Christian, Mills, Williams, Martin, and Brown,
• The Island, the People, and the Pastor - Ch. VI, Population
  • Brown, Martin, and Williams had no children.
• The Island, the People, and the Pastor, Ch. X Register 1790-3
  • "Fasto, wife of John Williams, died.
  • William Brown, John Williams, Isaac Martin;
• Pitcairn Island and the Islanders, Bounty Descendants
  • John Williams . . . . . Seaman.
  • Brown, Martin, and Williams had no issue;
  • John Williams married a Tahitian woman, but died without issue.
• Pitcairn Island and the Islanders, Pitcairn's Island, The Mutineers
  • Williams's wife died of sickness.
  • for another wife for Williams.
  • Williams's second wife sing a aong,—
  • what Williams's second wife had been singing.
  • was the husband of Williams's second wife.
  • Williams then took the woman again for his second wife,
  • beginning with John Williams and Fletcher Christian.
  • that they had killed Williams and Christian,
  • He then went into Williams's house,
  • (Williams and Christian's) and three children;
  • Adams and Williams lost their wives
• Pitcairn Island and the Islanders, Register 1790-1799
  • in the same year Fasto, wife of John Williams, died,
  • (Christian, Mills, Brown, Williams, and Martin)
• Young's Story of Pitcairn Island, The Arrival at Pitcairn
  • by one of the mutineers named Williams.
  • Williams, wanting another woman,
  • William Brown, and John Williams were killed.
  • Like Williams, he also lost his wife,
• Young's Story of Pitcairn Island, The Mutineers Discovered
  • John Williams, a Frenchman,
• 20 Years Residence on Pitcairn's Island - Part I
  • John Williams, and Isaac Martin,
  • the wife of Williams died,
  • and mentioned the death of Williams' wife.
  • He was killed and Nancy became the wife of Williams.
• John Adams's Story of the Mutineers at Pitcairn.
  • at the expiration of which Williams,
  • but Williams, actuated by selfish considerations alone,
  • and with them fell upon Williams and shot him.
  • from Williams' toward Christian's plantation,
  • and was told it was Jack William's.
• Visit of the Tuscan, Frederick D. Bennett 1834
  • Isaac Martin, ..... Williams, and William Brown, shared a similar fate.
  • Brown, Martin, and Williams died without issue.