John Millward - A.B.

He was 5'5" tall, brown complexion, brown hair, strongly made, very much tattooed on various parts of his body.
One of those who deserted on 5 Jan 1789, only to be recaptured on 22 Jan 1789 and flogged (48 lashes...in two installments).
In contrast to most of the seamen among the Bounty crew, Millward was literate.
According to the testimony of both Hallet and Hayward, Millward was armed during the mutiny.
Millward countered that a musket had been forced on him by Churchill, but Fryer, in deposed testimony, swore that Millward had cocked the musket at him while holding him prisoner.
One of the mutineers who chose to stay on Tahiti, Millward and Morrison moved in with Poeno, a chief of the Matavai district.
He was tried, convicted, and hanged aboard the 'Brunswick'. The evening before the execution, Millward took it upon himself to prepare himself and his crewmates for their deaths.
He read "Dodd's Sermon" to his fellow prisoners, and in such a manner as to convince an onlooker that an ordained chaplain was about his duties.
It was also Millward, while standing on the cathead immediately prior to the execution who addressed the ship's company confessing the errors they had been guilty of, acknowledged the justice of their sentences, and warned them by his fate to shun similar paths.
His speech was nervous, strong, and eloquent, and delivered in an open and deliberative manner.
(this comes from a letter written by an unidentified British officer that attended both trial and execution, the letter being published in "Briscoe's Douglas Advertiser", 19 Feb 1793).
