From the moment that Captain William Bligh first wrote home with word that he had been cast out of his ship, the Bounty, he offered a sense that his crew had mutinied because of the luxuriant sexuality offered at South Pacific Islands like Tahiti. Tahitian women, then, have long been appreciated as symbolic registers in the history of the Pacific Ocean. At Pitcairn, though, the women who settled with the Bounty have long been overlooked. They were the Tahitian mothers who helped found and populate Pitcairn Island. This chapter explores the limited number of sources left to us by Pitcairn’s founding female generation. It argues that the Tahitian women who sailed to Pitcairn onboard the Bounty were active agents in the island’s early history, and it suggests that Joshua Hill drew on their role in his own vision of the island. Indeed, in appreciating that the Pitcairn Islanders were a unique racial stock – descendants of both Britain and Tahiti – Hill situated the island at the crossroads of many conversations about both race and ethnicity, conversations that were themselves central to discussions of British imperialism in the nineteenth century.