272 PUBLIC REGISTER, 1851. 
" June 3d. — John Pitcairns Elford (native of 
Adelaide, New South Wales) baptized. 
" 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. 18th. — Eobert Charles Grant Young 
born. 
" 27th.— Mrs. Eliza C. Palmer, wife of George 
Palmer, of Nantucket, died of consumption. 
" 28th. — Edward Quintal (second) fell from 
the precipice upon the rocks below, and badly 
fractured his leg. 
"Dec. 24th. — Charles William Grant born, 
son of the master of a whaler, whose wife had 
been left on the island. 
" 1851, Jan. 1st. — Thursday O. Christian 
elected chief magistrate ; John BufFett, jun. and 
Thomas BufFett, councillors. 
" 8th.— Mary Anne M'Coy born. 
" 21st. — Frances Adelaide Quintal born. 
" 23c?. — Observed the anniversary of the 
settlement of the colony. David BufFett and 
Martha Young married. 
" March 15th. — By the accidental discharge 
of a fowling-piece in a whale-boat that was out 
fishing, three persons, viz. Abraham Quintal, 
John BufFett, and Fletcher Nobbs, were seri- 
ously injured. 
" 30th. — Anna Rose Christian died, aged 
three years. 
" April 21th. — Mary Isabel Adams born. 
" July 13th. — Fairfax Moresby Quintal born- 
