Head board of John Adams who died in 1829 - the last of the Bounty mutineers to survive on Pitcairn. A wooden board with an ornamental curved top, covered on one face with sheet lead with the inscription punched into it and surmounted by a weeping tree motif. The lead sheet is bent round the edges of the board and fastened to the back with nails. Inscription: ‘SACRED / TO THE / MEMORY / OF MR / JOHN ADAMS / WHO DIED / MARCH 5 1829 / AGED 65 / YEARS.’

Removed from Pitcairn Island by Rear-Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby who visited the island in August 1852 in HMS ‘Portland’. He had long been interested in the islanders, and was the first senior British naval officer to visit Pitcairn. Captain Edward Gennys Fanshawe, who called there in 1849, did a drawing of Adams's house and grave enclosure though the marker is not distinguishable: see PAI4614.The wooden headboard was replaced by one in Devonport stone (it was made there). It had the same wording with ‘In hope’ at the end. This was broken by 1949 see ‘National Geographic Magazine’, Jan. 1949 p. 33. ‘The Sunday Times Magazine’, 29 July 1973, showed the same tombstone, now cemented together. Its present condition is not known.