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three for the magistrate here, three for absent 
friends, three for the ladies, and three for the 
community in general, amid the firing of mus- 
kets and ringing of the bell. At sunset the gun 
of the Bounty was again fired, and the day closed 
in harmony and peace, both towards God and 
man. It is voted that an annual celebration be 
observed. 
"1850, March 24^. Daniel M'Coy and 
Lydia Young married. 
" April 20th. Charles Carleton Vieder Young 
born. 
" June 3d. John Pitcairns Elford (native of 
Adelaide, New South Wales) baptized. 
" 15th. Julia Christian died of dysentery. 
" July \5th. 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. Kobert Charles Grant Young 
born. 
"27th. Mrs. Eliza C. Palmer, wife of 
George Palmer, of Nan tucket, died of consump- 
tion. 
28tL Edward Quintall (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. 
" 8th. Mary Anne M'Coy born. 
