Descendants of the Bounty mutineers Christian Rachel Adams daughter of John Adams by John Evans an English sailor William Young son of Ned Young by Elizabeth Mills daughter of John Mills Edward Quintal son of Matthew Quintal by Dinah Adams daughter of John Adams George Adams son of John Adams by Polly Young daughter of Ned Young The majority of the many rulers of the Pitcairn Islands have been descendants of the "Bounty" mutineers, till this day. In 1935 - in the wake of their successful American blockbuster movie "Mutiny on the Bounty", which premiered that year - the MGM Studios also shot a short
Mutiny on the Bounty officers. These signed the ship's roster as able seamen, but were quartered with the midshipmen and treated on equal terms with them. Most of "Bounty"'s crew were chosen by Bligh or were recommended to him by influential patrons. William Peckover the gunner and Joseph Coleman the armourer had been with Cook and Bligh on HMS "Resolution"; several others had sailed under Bligh more recently on the "Britannia". Among these was the 23-year-old Fletcher Christian, who came from a wealthy Cumberland family descended from Manx gentry. Christian had chosen a life at sea rather than the legal career envisaged by his