102 STATE OF SOCIETY AT PITCAIRN. 
husband to fire upon the remaining black, which 
was done with fatal precision. This woman, 
Susannah, who afterwards married Thursday 
October Christian, Fletcher Christian's son, 
died at an advanced age in the year 1850. 
She was the last survivor of the Bounty. 
The sanguinary frays among the members 
of the small body of inhabitants, from the 
time of their landing, to 1794, have been 
described at different times. These painful 
particulars shall be passed over. One point, 
however, connected with the murders deserves 
mention, as it may serve to clear up some 
doubt regarding the death of Fletcher Chris- 
tian. As the spot in which he was buried on 
the island is not known, and as a person 
resembling him was seen, about the year 
1809, in Fore Street, Plymouth, by Captain 
Peter Heywood, who imagined, from a trans- 
ient view, that the stranger was Fletcher 
Christian himself, an impression in some 
quarters prevailed, that he had escaped the 
massacre of 1793, and had returned to 
England. But the manuscript documents of 
the island seemed to be clear upon this 
matter. In 1794, when only four men, 
