INDIO STEWART, Tippaoo

Notes:

Birth:
ETHNICITY: Native Tahitian "grandee" (chief), a man of great possession in landed property, near Matavy Bay [Tahiti].

1. NAME: Tippaoo, a Tahitian "grandee" who had befriended GS [George Stewart] according to traditional custom whereby names were exchanged, each man taking on reciprocal obligations toward the other, according to the rules of 'taio'-ship.
http://pandorawreckancestors.net/family-histories/george-stewart/.

2. LAND POSSESSION: This was more to be dreaded, as many of the prisoners were married to the most respectable chiefs' daughters in the district opposite to where we lay at anchor; in particular one, who took the name of Stewart, a man of great possession in landed property, near Matavy Bay: a gentleman of that name belonging to the Bounty having married his daughter, and he, as his friend and father-in law, agreeable to their custom, took his name.
http://www.fatefulvoyage.com/pandora/pandoraIHamilton01.html#n000072.


Name:
NAME VARIATIONS:
- Originally named Tippaoo
- Tippaoo STEWART; took the name of his son-in-law according to local custom
http://www.fatefulvoyage.com/pandora/pandoraIHamilton01.html#n000072

Tippaoo married UNKNOWN, Unknown Bef. 1774, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Unknown was born Bef. 1760, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia. [Group Sheet]

1. INDIA PEQUE, Peggy was born Bef. 1774, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia; died Aft. Dec 29, 1791, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia; was buried Aft. Dec 29, 1791, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia.