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15th. Julia Christian died of dysentery. 
" July 15th. Susannah (a native of Tahiti, 
and last survivor of the Bounty] died from 
the prevailing epidemic and the exhaustion 
of old age combined. 
' ' Sept. 18^. Robert Charles Grant Young 
born. 
"27th. Mrs. Eliza C. Palmer, wife of 
George Palmer, of Nantucket, died of con- 
sumption. 
" 28^. Edward Quintal (second) fell from 
the precipice upon the rocks below, and 
badly fractured his leg. 
" Dec. 24:th. Charles William Grant born, 
son of the master of a whaler, whose wife 
had been left on the island. 
" 1851, Jan. 1st. Thursday 0. Christian 
elected chief magistrate. John Buffett, jun., 
and Thomas Buffett, councillors. 
" Stk. Mary Anne M'Coy born. 
" 21st. Frances Adelaide Quintal born. 
" 23d. Observed the anniversary of the 
settlement of the colony. David Buffett and 
Martha Young married. 
"March 15th. By the accidental dis- 
charge of a fowling-piece in a whale-boat that 
