Tapoa I
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Tapoa I, né vers 1772 à Bora Bora et mort en septembre 1812 à Tahiti, était le chef de l'île de Tahaa. Il fit partie en 1810 du contingent de chefs des îles Sous le vent, dont Tamatoa III de Raïatea, Mahine de Huahine et Mai et Tefaaora de Bora Bora, venus à Eimeo (Moorea) apporter leur soutien au roi Pomare II afin de le réinstaller sur ses terres à Tahiti. Tapoa I était arrivé le 27 septembre 1810 à Eimeo[1]. Le 25 septembre 1812, alors qu'il était à Tahiti, Pomare II annonça dans une lettre adressée aux missionnaires à Eimeo que Tapoa I était sur le point de mourir[2]. Avant de partir à Eimeo, il avait laissé pour lui succéder à Tahaa, un petit-fils nommé Pomare, le futur Tapoa II. Ce dernier fut confié au chef Fenuapeho qui assura sa régence. Pomare alias Tapoa II épousa vers 1822, la reine Pomare IV[3].
Notes et références
[modifier | modifier le code]- (ty) Records of the London Missionary Society (as filmed by the AJCP) [microform] : [M1-M116, M608-M670] 1795-1825 [i.e. 1795-1925]/Series. South Seas letters/File Box 1/Letters from the Tahitian Mission and from missionaries leaving or returning to England (lire en ligne), Pomare II to rev. John Eyre (Eimeo Papetoai,Friday 16, November 1810) :
« Tae mai nei Tapoa ma, tei Eimeo nei, September (Tetepa) 27 to ratou tīpae raa mai. »
- (en) Records of the London Missionary Society (as filmed by the AJCP) [microform] : [M1-M116, M608-M670] 1795-1825 [i.e. 1795-1925]/Series. South Seas letters/File Box 2/Letters mainly from missionaries in Tahiti, or sailing to and from Tahiti (lire en ligne), LMS/SSL/Box2/Folder1/JacquetA/Letter4_King Pomare II to the missionaries at Eimeo (Papeete Tahiti Friday September 25 1812) :
«
Papeiti Taheiti Friday September 25th 1812My dear friend,
War will perhaps soon commence in the district of Papara [...] Tapoa is at the point of death : he can eat nothing and knows no body. I am also ill myself and have no appetite for food. I was taken ill about 3 o'clock on monday morning last. My affliction is great, but if i can only obtain god's favor before i die, i shall count myself well off. But o should i die with my sins unpardoned it will be ill indeed with me. O may my sins be pardoned, and my soul saved throught Jesus Christ! And my Jehovah regard me before i die, and then i shall rejoice, because i have obtained the favor of Jehovah. My Jehovah and Jesus Christ. Bless us all. Pomare»
- (en) Records of the London Missionary Society (as filmed by the AJCP) [microform] : [M1-M116, M608-M670] 1795-1825 [i.e. 1795-1925]/Series. South Seas letters/File Box 8/Letters from missionaries in Tahiti and the Hervey Islands (lire en ligne), LMS/SSL/Box8/Folder2/JacquetC/Letter1_George Platt to LMS (Bora Bora August 1, 1831) :
« Tapoa going up to Tahiti to fight for Pomare left one of his own family of the Faanue in the government of Tahaa. He had charge of a grandson of Tapoa's, who was married i believe while the deputation was here, to the young Queen of Tahiti; Tapoa died at Tahiti before the gospel was generally received, the islands still unsettled commenced at his own place. While finishing his vessel the chief who held for him the government of Tahaa was lost at sea, of which no doubt you have heard. He then took the government into his own hands. »
