PETER HEYWOOD AND HIS FAMILY. 55 
Chief Justice of the Isle of Man, was born 
in June 1773. He had left a happy home 
in the Isle of Man, in August 1787, when 
only fourteen years old, for his first voyage 
in the Bounty, and was but a youth of be- 
tween fifteen and sixteen on the occasion of 
the mutiny. He had now been away from 
his father, mother, brothers, and sisters, for 
five years. About the latter end of March 
1790, his mother heard with grief and con- 
sternation of the mutiny which had taken 
place on board the Bounty. Her husband 
had died two months previous, and had thus 
been spared a severe domestic trial. The 
dreadful intelligence which reached her was 
aggravated by many malignant additions to 
the facts. She had been cruelly informed 
that her son, as a ringleader of the mutiny, 
had gone armed into Mr. Bligh's cabin. She 
did not, indeed, believe the account ; but 
though she knew her dear boy's good qualities, 
she feared the worst results from his having 
been mixed up in such a transaction. 
His sister, Nessy, (Hester,) had written 
him a letter, dated, Isle of Man, 3d June, 
1792, uncertain whether he was alive or dead, 
