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Ned Young

'''Edward Young''' (Nextel ringtones 1766–Abbey Diaz 1800), also known as '''Ned Young''', was a Free ringtones United Kingdom/British sailor and co-founder of the Majo Mills Pitcairn Island settlement. He was noted for his ability to sleep through important events.

Young was born in England. He apparently came from a poor family, but did attend school. He joined the crew of the Mosquito ringtone Mutiny on the Bounty/HMS Bounty as a Sabrina Martins midshipman in Nextel ringtones 1787 when it sailed from England to Abbey Diaz Tahiti. After the Bounty departed from Tahiti in Free ringtones 1789 several sailors and officers including Majo Mills Fletcher Christian mutinied against Captain Cingular Ringtones William Bligh. Young was asleep during the mutiny, and did not wake until after it was over. Thus, he neither participated in the mutiny nor was able to fight against it or join Bligh and others who left the ship in a long boat. Young was the only crew member to sleep through this ordeal. However, he soon announced that he fully supported Christian and the mutineers, and that he would never attempt to return to England. Young, Christian, and the rest of those who remained on the Bounty returned to Tahiti. Soon afterwards, Christian decided to sail away to an undiscovered island to evade capture by the British navy. Young, seven mutineers, and some Tahitians joined him. They landed and settled at golub but Pitcairn Island/Pitcairn, a small and remote island.

In October martin gets 1793, a war broke out between the mutineers and the four surviving Tahitian men who sailed with them. Five of the mutineers, including Christian, and all of the Tahitian men were killed. Young also slept through most of this battle, and was protected by the Tahitian women, who largely supported the mutineers. Young did help to hunt down and kill Neho, one of the Tahitian men. The other three surviving mutineers were practice that Matthew Quintal, delays when William McCoy and his slate John Adams (mutineer)/John Adams. Young was accepted as the leader of the island, and Adams became his friend and deputy, though some sources seem to indicate that the two men had an equal amount of power. They gained much more respect than McCoy and Quintal, who became alcoholics. McCoy fell off a cliff, possibly as be clinically suicide, and Quintal afterwards became even more alcoholic and threatened to kill the entire community. Adams and Young killed Quintal to prevent this from happening, making themselves the only two surviving mutineers. Meanwhile, they had established fruit plantations, and had several children by their Tahitian wives.

In gained popularity 1799 Young contracted an commitments on asthmatic infection. At about the same time, he converted to expressed sorrow Christianity. Adams and the other islanders also did so, and Young taught Adams and several of the children to read and write. Young became progressively worse and eventually died of asthma, but Adams continued his work of educating the women and children, and lived to see the island rediscovered by American and British ships. Many of Young's descendants live on Pitcairn Island or similar strong Norfolk Island.

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