Citizen Thomas Cock (left) and Citizen Rowley Rowley (centre).The story of H.M.S Dreadful: A month after setting sail from Tamba- Tamba Jeffries and his men were intercepted by a French squadron. Dreadful was sunk by a broadside. Bould was the only survivor. He spent ten years as a prisoner in Guadeloupe. He escaped and made his way to the United States. He was granted a Royal Pardon in 1798 and returned to Portsmouth the following year. He lived to the age of 96 in quiet retirement in Bath Spa.
Cock and his followers set about creating their Utopia. Class distinctions were broken down. Cock dressed as a common sailor and everyone bore the title 'Citizen'. On September 1st 1777 the first Council was formed.
The derelict Tome- Tome village of the Portuguese was restored and named Cocktown. The population of the island at the foundation of the first council stood at 18 Citizens , 12 women, 4 'blacks' (sic)- (the language of the day was indelicate by modern standards-this is the first reference to these people, and historians assume that they came with the crew from some other part of the archipelago).
Private property was abolished and the society was based on the primitive communism that the men had observed on Wessel's Island.
Cock and his followers set about creating their Utopia. Class distinctions were broken down. Cock dressed as a common sailor and everyone bore the title 'Citizen'. On September 1st 1777 the first Council was formed.
The derelict Tome- Tome village of the Portuguese was restored and named Cocktown. The population of the island at the foundation of the first council stood at 18 Citizens , 12 women, 4 'blacks' (sic)- (the language of the day was indelicate by modern standards-this is the first reference to these people, and historians assume that they came with the crew from some other part of the archipelago).
Private property was abolished and the society was based on the primitive communism that the men had observed on Wessel's Island.
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