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. Bobert Charles Grant Young 
born. 
27th. Mrs. Eliza C. Palmer, wife of George 
Palmer, of Nan tucket, died of consumption. 
28^. 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 0, Christian 
elected chief magistrate ; John Buffett, jun. and 
Thomas Buffett, councillors. 
" 8th. 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 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 Bose Christian died, aged 
three years. 
"April 27th. Mary Isabel Adams born. 
" July 13th. Fairfax Moresby Quintal born; 
