Cyprus mutiny Cyprus mutiny The "Cyprus" mutiny took place in 1829 off the British penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia). Convicts seized the brig and sailed her to Canton, China, where they scuttled her and claimed to be castaways from another vessel. On the way, "Cyprus" visited Japan during the height of the period of severe Japanese restrictions on the entry of foreigners, the first Australian ship to do so. The mutineers were eventually captured. Two of them, George James Davis and William Watts, were hanged at Execution Dock, London on 16 December 1830, the last men hanged for
George R. Davis (New York) In 1814, one hundred and twenty-eight volunteers under George R. Davis joined the State Militia, and all marched from Troy to Plattsburgh, but the Battle of Plattsburgh had been fought before they reached there. When he became a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Rensselaer County in 1829, he moved to the county seat Troy. In 1830, under the provisions of the Safety Fund Law, he was appointed Bank Commissioner, and served five terms until 1840. He was a member from Rensselaer County of the New York State Assembly in 1819, 1830, 1831, 1842 and 1843; and was