INDIA PEQUE, Peggy

1774 - 1791  (~ 17 years)

• Name	INDIA PEQUE, Peggy
  	NAME VARIATIONS: - Margaret PECK; dau. Bap. Record - Peggy [PEQUE]; From Mission to Majesty: A Genealogy and History of Early California and Royal European Ancestors, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1983, Chapter: Peggy Stewart (Maria Antonia Stuart), pages 46-47 - Peggy STEWART; A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean: Performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff, Commanded by Captain James Wilson by London Missionary Society; Wilson, James, 1759 or 60-1814; Wilson, William, Chief Mate of the Ship Duff, Published 1799, [APPENDIX], p. 346 https://archive.org/stream/missionaryvoyage00lond#page/346/mode/2up
  Birth	Bef. 1774	Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia
  	ETHNICITY: Native Tahitian princess
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft. Dec 29, 1791	Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia   [1, 2, 3]
  Burial	Aft. Dec 29, 1791	Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia
  Biography	29 Dec 1791	Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia   [4]
  	Peggy Stewart meets & visits Edward Bell, clerk on George Vancouver's ship, Chatham
  	CAPTIAN GEORGE VANCOUVER'S SHIP, DISCOVERY ARRIVES AT MATAVAI BAY, TAHITI 29 Dec 1791: Meanwhile, Discovery reached a small island on 22 December. It was Rapa, in the Austral group. ... A week later, Vancouver brought Discovery safely to Matavai Bay on the north coast of Tahiti, and was relieved to find [Commander, Lieutenant William] Broughton and [in] Chatham already at anchor there. http://www.captaincooksociety.com/home/detail/george-vancouver-1757-1798-part-three-the-voyage-1791-1792
  Person ID	I22668	1. Schwald - WA-NY-OR-TX
  Last Modified	29 Jun 2016

  
  

  Father	INDIO STEWART, Tippaoo,   b. Bef. 1768, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia d. Abt. 1796, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia (Age ~ 28 years)
  Mother	UNKNOWN, Unknown,   b. Bef. 1760, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia
  Family ID	F7313	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	STEWART STUART, George,   b. 1766, South Ronaldsay, Orkney d. 29 Aug 1791, Great Barrier Reef, Moulter Cay, Queensland (Age 25 years)
  Marriage	Abt. 1789	Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia   [5]
  	Type: tribal ceremony
  Children	+ 1. STEWART STUART, Maria Antonia de la Ascension "Little Peggy, Charlotte",   b. Abt. 1790, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia
  Family ID	F6448	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2016

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Bef. 1774 - Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia Marriage - Type: tribal ceremony - Abt. 1789 - Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia Death - Aft. Dec 29, 1791 - Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia Burial - Aft. Dec 29, 1791 - Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia Biography - Peggy Stewart meets & visits Edward Bell, clerk on George Vancouver's ship, Chatham - 29 Dec 1791 - Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia  = Link to Google Earth
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  [S257] Archives - www world wide web, (world wide web), http://pandorawreckancestors.net/family-histories/george-stewart/. DEATH - ... allegedly Peggy died of a broken heart after hearing about GS's [George Stewart's] demise in HMS PANDORA [sunk 29 Aug 1791-JSR 2016]. [S257] Archives - www world wide web, (world wide web), 1799, https://archive.org/stream/missionaryvoyage00lond#page/346/mode/2up. DEATH - A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean: Performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff, Commanded by Captain James Wilson by London Missionary Society; Wilson, James, 1759 or 60-1814; Wilson, William, Chief Mate of the Ship Duff, Published 1799, [APPENDIX], p. 346 ... The history of Peggy Stewart marks a tenderness of heart that never will be heard without emotion; she was the daughter of a chief, and taken for his wife by Mr. Stewart, one of the unhappy mutineers. They had lived with the old chief in the most tender state of endearment; a beautiful little girl had been the fruit of their union, and was at the breast when the Pandora arrived, seized the criminals, and secured them in irons on board the ship. Frantic with grief, the unhappy Peggy (for so he had named her) flew with her infant in a canoe to the arms of her husband. The interview was so affecting and afflicting, that the officers on board were overwhelmed with anguish, and Stewart himself, unable to bear the heart-rending scene, begged she might not be admitted again on board. She was separated from him by violence, and conveyed on shore in a state of despair and grief too big for utterance. Withheld from him, and forbidden to come any more on board, she sunk into the deepest dejection; it preyed on her vitals; she lost all relish for food and life; rejoiced no more; pined under a rapid decay of two months, and fell a victim to her feelings, dying literally of a broken heart. Her child is yet alive, and the tender object of our care, having been brought up by a sister, who nursed it as her own, and has discharged all the duties of an affectionate mother to the orphan infant. ... [S257] Archives - www world wide web, (world wide web), https://books.google.com/books?id=Ttl3FT0UqngC&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&dq=tahiti+george+stewart+wife+peggy&source=bl&ots=_Ct_F28Cg8&sig=U1nYyRsEnF5jOqJc94WnUMSFlPw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyqI7bo83NAhVJ8GMKHXWzARkQ6AEIQjAH#v=onepage&q=tahiti%20george%20stewart%20wife%20peggy&f=false. DEATH - South Sea Maidens: Western Fantasy and Sexual Politics in the South Pacific, Michael Sturma, Greenwood Press, Westport Connecticut, 2002, p. 40 "It was claimed she died of a broken heart, even before Stewart drowned when the Pandora sank in August `1791. But in fact Peggy was still very much alive when Vancouver visited Tahiti less than a year later [abt. Dec 29, 1791-JSR 2016]. One of Vancouver's complement commented that "she was possess'd of much sensibility, an affable agreeable disportion together with a sweetness of manner that upon a short acquaintance made up for the deficiency of personal Beauty." [S257] Archives - www world wide web, (world wide web), https://books.google.com/books?id=wugW5IRyBD4C&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=George+Vancouver+Peggy+Stewart&source=bl&ots=wbp2Ji2Pj1&sig=CuFurcj9QR_TDFq4Q23DPkz6nbM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgv5Cqp83NAhVY0mMKHRYtCuoQ6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=George%20Vancouver%20Peggy%20Stewart&f=false. BIOGRAPHY - LIFE AFTER GEORGE STEWART TAKEN FROM TAHITI ON PANDORA (The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Caroline Alexander, Penquin Books, 2003, pp. 35-36) ... Less than eight months after the Pandora left Matavai Bay, Captain George Vancouver arrived with his two ships, Discovery and Chatham. ... One day the Chatham's men were "surprized at seeing alongside in a double canoe, three woman all dress'd in White Linen Shirts, and having each a fine young child in their arms, perfectly white, " as Edward Bell, a young clerk on the Chatham, reported in his journal. These were the women who had lived with the Bounty's mutineers, and had their children. "One called herself Peggy Stewart, after Mr. Stewart, one of the Bounty's midshipmen, and her child which was very beautiful was called Charlotte," wrote Bell. ... Following this first meeting, Peggy Stewart frequently came to visit, often bring small gifts and always inquiring after her husband. At length, it was time for the ships to depart, and she came to make her affectionate and tearful farewell. "Just before she went away, she came into my Cabbin," wrote Bell, "and ask'd me the same question she had often done, whether I thought Stewart would be hung." Deeply moved, she replied that he didn't know - perhaps not. "She then said 'If he is alive when you return, tell him that you saw his Peggy and his little Charlotte, and that they were both well, and tell him to come to Otaheite [Tahiti], and live with them, or they will be unhappy.' She then burst into Tears and with the deepest regret forced herself into her Canoe and as long as we could see her she kept waving her hand." The next ship that came from Tahiti brought word that Peggy had pined away and died of a broken heart. ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHY LINKS: Peggy Stewart and Edward Bell http://pandorawreckancestors.net/stewart/peggy-stewart-and-edward-bell/#comment-312 [S257] Archives - www world wide web, (world wide web), http://www.fatefulvoyage.com/pandora/pandoraIHamilton01.html#n000072. MARRIAGE - A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD By George Hamilton, Surgeon Of The Pandora ... 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.