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John Pitcairn

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

John Pitcairn , 1722-75, British royal marine officer in the American Revolution. Major Pitcairn commanded the advance guard of the British troops at Lexington (see Lexington and Concord, battles of ) on Apr. 19, 1775, but whether he ordered his men to fire on the colonial militia or was forced to return their fire is still in dispute. He was later killed in the battle of Bunker Hill. Pitcairn Island is named for his son Robert Pitcairn (c.1747-c.1770), who as a midshipman under Philip Carteret first sighted it on July 2, 1767. Author not available, PITCAIRN, JOHN. , The C... Read more

Pitcairn Island
Pitcairn Island, UK An Overseas Territory of the UK consisting of the islands of Pitcairn (the only inhabited one), Ducie, Henderson, and Oeno. Pitcairn was discovered in 1767 and named after Midshipman Robert Pitcairn, who was the first sailor... Read more

Lexington and Concord, Battles of
...roughly 250 men under Maj. John Pitcairn, approached Lexington, where...perhaps 70 men under Capt. John Parker, was assembling on the green. Pitcairn, seeing armed men on his...Parker's company. By the time Pitcairn restrained them, eight colonists... Read more

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	Pitcairn Trust Co. Reaches Beyond Most Mutual Funds in Client Service.(Originated from The Philadelphia Inquirer) ; ...We call it 'poodle-walking,' jokes Leslie C. Voth, Pitcairn's director of communications. Not that Pitcairn's 60 employees literally walk poodles for their clients...invested with you, you do it. Service is a habit at Pitcairn because it used to be run exclusively by and for Pitcairn family ... Read more
	Guilty: the verdicts that shamed Pitcairn Island Six men - one-eighth of the population of a remote British colony - were yesterday convicted of sex crimes stretching back for at least 40 years. Kathy Marks reports from a community in shock ; ...Cox, a Kent police constable stationed temporarily on Pitcairn in 1999. Ms Cox, the first British officer ever posted to Pitcairn, began an inquiry that turned into a massive investigation...abuse began even further back. One middle- aged woman on Pitcairn claims "it was the same in my great- ... Read more
	QLD: Cannon raised from the Bounty, sunk off Pitcairn Island ; ...complex sea conditions in Pitcairn's Bounty Bay, he said. Pitcairn is the island where Fletcher Christian and a group of...mutineers, terrified that the British would find them on Pitcairn, set fire to the Bounty, scuttling the vessel off the coast. The mutineers remained on Pitcairn undetected ... Read more
	PITCAIRN: a two-century old haven. ; ...one and a half across, with steep cliffs on all sides, Pitcairn's fertile soil and sub-tropical climate suggested it...safe as possible from the long arm of the Royal Navy. Pitcairn was remote. Even better, the primitive charts of the...itself, and even more violent. Nine mutineers made it to Pitcairn. ... Read more
	Tiny Pitcairn Island rocked by accusations of rape, underage sex. ; ...descendants have again run afoul of her majesty's law. On Pitcairn Island, the remote South Pacific outpost where Christian...the map halfway between New Zealand and South America, Pitcairn is a British territory with a population of 47. The...inhabitation is quite likely, said Herb Ford, an expert on ... Read more
	Two jailed over Pitcairn abuse ; World News IN BRIEF ; PITCAIRN Two more men have been jailed for rape and child sex abuse on Pitcairn Island. Brian Michael John Young, 53, was sentenced in the Pitcairn Supreme Court sitting in Auckland, New Zealand to six-and-a-half years. Shawn Brent Christian, 31, was sentenced to three-and-ahalf... Read more
	Pitcairn firefighter charged in deaths of wife, man ; ...firefighter from Pitcairn shot and killed his...County police said. John S. Lang fired two...Braverman-Lang, 41, of Pitcairn died in the parking...police affidavit said John S. Lang had known...Fourth Street in Pitcairn, said she was stunned...sad." Dover said John Lang always ... Read more
	Pitcairn bar shut for week ; ...emergency injunction that closed Churchfield's bar in Pitcairn for the week. Sheriff's deputies padlocked the Broadway...scheduled for Friday before Horgos. During the past year, Pitcairn officials have complained about noise and fights at Churchfield...shot three times. On March 9, Churchfield's and two other ... Read more
	Of Pitcairn's Island and American constitutional theory. ; ...different set of governmental structures. I. THE TALE OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND After careful study of every existing account, (13) Charles Nordhoff and James N. Hall published Pitcairn's Island in 1934.(14) According to the authors, discrepancies...little is known with certainty about what happened on ... Read more
	BOUNTY HUNTER; Standing proud: The ancient carved heads on remote Easter Island and, inset, former TV reporter Sandy Gall aboard ship with a Pitcairn resident. ; ...isthe loneliest place in the world. If that's so, then Pitcairn, its nearestneighbour 1,300 miles away, is the second...later, we sighted the second loneliest rock in theworld, Pitcairn Island, the last refuge of the mutineers of the Bounty in 1789. Pitcairn is really inaccessible. It was wrongly marked ... Read more

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