To Women of the Bounty PageVahineatua
Consort of John Mills
She was known by several names:
- PRUDENCE - English: reference unknown, likely named by Mills
- VAHINE ALUA - woman god
She arrived on Pitcairn as consort of Mills, to whom she was very attached. She moved into the Adams household when Mills was murdered. It was she that insisted on being the once to seduce Tetahiti in order that he could be taken off guard and murdered.
According to Jenny, Vahineatua, who had three children with John Adams, was "pierced by a goat while with child" and died. This has to be incorrect, and the comment was probably referring to another of the women, likely Tinafanaea.
Vahineatua was certainly among the Pitcairners who migrated to Tahiti in February of 1831. Nicolson ("The Pitcairners") reports that she died on Tahiti on 29 Apr 1831, one of the first to die there. According to Nicolson, she is also the Pitcairner who Captain Sandilands referred to having met her sister on Tahiti after so many years.