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[No. 626, Stephen Reynolds]
F.R. 91v2
[DIAGRAM] [See text in No. 619]
F.T. 95-96v2
No. 626, Stephen Reynolds, continued from page 85
George Wood, sworn, [18 December?]
I came here [in 18]25. I recollect Mr. Reeves' blacksmith shop then stood on the sea side. I always understood Knight & Manini got the place from Boki as people reported. I knew Knight & Manini built a bowling alley and other houses. I recollect the small wood house on the sea side and [pig pen?] on north side of the cook house. I now the Hotel and premises having been sold by auction in 1832. (Mr. Reynolds added- the undivided half to settle Mr. Manini's estate) by the Executors: i bid them off and gave them up to Mr. Reynolds. The purchase money was something more than 1100$. The sleeping house stood where the market house now stands. I know of no other occupant of the premises till Mr. Punchard took the plae. The market house was built in 1845.
(Note: copy of a protest was offered in evidence made before John Ricord. Notary Public, against Kekuanaoa, dated 12 August 1845 and witnessed [?]. Copy by Mr. Ricord on 13th August 1845 for which see page 110.
Resumed page 100
F.T. 100-103v2
Claim 626, Stephen Reynolds, continued from page 89. December 20 [1846]
John Meek, sworn, I have been acquainted with these premises ever since Knight and Manini owned them, and have been led by business nearly every day to frequent the wharf from that time; with the exception of different intervals of absence. I attended to the construction of the wharf of Ladd & Co. which is about 60 ft. apart from that of Mr. Reynolds. His wharf was built by Knight and Manini first; has been repaired several times, and afterwards rebuilt by Mr. Reynolds. The house of Punchard now stands on the boundary line of Mr. Reynolds' land. Nuuanu Street has been open ever since 1809. Punchard's store is where the old fence was. The line from that to the water has never been defined. The only fence that stood was where Punchard's store now stands; between that and the sea was open ground and on Nuuanu Street.
From Punchard's store up to Merchant Street Mr. Reynolds' premises are bounded by Nuuanu Street. On Ewa side I do not know who the land belonged to where the cook house is built, but to the westward of it, it never belonged to anyone but the Government. I remember Mr. Ladd had some posts up for a building where the Pilot's office now stands and Kekuanaoa soon came and pulled it down. This was several years previous to 1840. The hog pen north of the cook house was made of sticks and I think stood there as long as the hotel. It might have been two fathoms long and I think its length was from the sea. I do not think I was there when the old fence was made. I never heard of Mr. Reynolds or any other person claiming that land north of the cook house before the present office was moved there.
The piece called Captain Meek's slip was [?put] up by Ladd and Co. I laid the string piece. Mr. Reynolds never occupied north of the cook house that I know of, and made no objection at the time when the wharf was built as Ladd & Company.
The fence Southeasterly extended to where the market now stands. The house belonging to the Hotel stood outside the fence; it was 18 or 20 ft. long by 13 or 15 wide.
There was a large beam which lay on the beach which constituted the Waititi boundary of Mr. Reynolds' sea line - up to which the canoes came. The tide came within 5 or 6 ft of the native houses then standing near it.
(Cross-examined by Mr. Reynolds). I know the governor pulled the house down by the people who did it, who I heard were sent by the governor. I know Knight and Manini never had any right in the land north of the cookhouse because they never used it or claimed it.
A stick fence bounded the Hotel premises on both sides Nuuanu and Waititi. That makai of Punchards was the boundary there. The thoroughfare between that and the wharf was always a public road.
I do not know whether the land on which the cookhouse stood, and the wharf were a part & parcel of the Oahu Hotel premises or not. I know they were used by them.
William Ladd, sworn, I think it was in 1838 I built the company's wharf. At the time we took possession of our place, the water came within about 20 ft. of our makai fence. The slip was built at various times. I have possessed the store premises since 1833 and have never been disturbed. Mr. Reynolds claims from the corner of Ladd & Co's premises to Nuuanu St. in a line to the water, just to the north of the cookhouse.
Kekuanaoa, sworn, S. Reynolds boundary is in a line with the cookhouse; it runs from Ewa heads of the cookhouse to the Ewa heads of the wharf. I claim for the Government mauka of the cookhouse, Meek's slip as given on the chart belongs to the Government. Meek asked my permission to lay down the timber and construct it; and I gave it him. Mr. Ladd built out there and I told him he had no right. He commenced just mauka where the pilot's office stands, a foundation of stones. I enquired whose house is this? He said his own. I said take it away, and I ordered away two other long sheds which he after built and removed them. This was just mauka of where the pilot's office stands, and after the wood for wharf was built in 1838; or it might be in 1841 when the market was altered. Mr. Ladd admitted the correctness of my decision, and that was the reason of their not building again. Their line does not extend in that direction straight down to the sea.
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.... />Lanai has brought a land transfer document from William Hinkle transferring that land to him which he is demanding.
Barinamada (Brinsmade:), sworn by the Word of God and stated, "I had come to this archipelago in the year 1833. There was a small lot at that time on the north side of the kitchen. That place had been for Lanai and the hogs' sty was there. When the wall was broken down, Lanai stored the wood and timber of the ship there and we had thought the place was for Lanai and in the year 1840 that place probably had extended into the lots which had been built for Kapena Wipa (Captain Wilkes). This was of course with Lanai's approval.
I believe Lanai had the short timber [page 438] there until I had gone there in the year 1841.
G. P. Judd had brought some documents as a witness for the south side of Ladd's (property) and it is noted below here.
Mr. French, sworn by the Word of God and stated ' "I had arrived on this land in the year 1819 and in the year 1825 or 6 perhaps, the hotel was built and a fence surrounded it and I lived there sometime. The place was for Naiki (Knight) and Manini at that time. They had erected a wooden fence there separating the wharf and the lot, but I do not recall when the stonewall had been built because I was in a foreign country then.
I had a sale with Poki for a part of the sandalwood storage house and makai of that house is the house of Hoaai and toward the ocean of that sandalwood house is the place 1 had bought for $200.00 and I had asked for the place toward the mountain of the sandalwood house and Piia told me the place was for Poki. I had a talk with Poki about buying that place for $300 and Poki had agreed. When Piia had heard this, he returned his two hundred dollars and demanded $300 as the price of his place. Therefore, the first selling price was nought but Hoaai has continued to live there with some other people until very recently. If I were to go there, I believe I can perhaps point out the place I had bought from Piia; however, it is not very clear because there have been many searchings and at the time of the high sea swelling, it had been just about impossible to go there. There was not enough space between the beach and the sea. I believe that place was 20 or probably 25 ft. wide from the pier to makai and in the year 1830, 1 had offered Manini the pier and the lot for $3000.00 but they refused; then I had wondered about leasing the --same. I think half of the width of the hotel was the width of the pier. It was customary to leave wood here and there and I had been one of them who has left wood there."
Jonah Piikoi, sworn by the Word of God and stated, "I have seen the boundary on the Waikiki side of Lanai's wharf. There is the boundary on the Ewa side of the house lying toward the mountain on the Waikiki side of the market. Kekuanaoa had that place with soil. Half of the market is standing there and seaward to the big timber lying on the way to the wharf. Kekuanaoa and I had filled that place with soil.
Komo had worked on that place to the cape which is sticking out assuming that place was for the government; later it was decreased and that huge and long log lying on the Waikiki side of Lanai's wharf was the boundary on Waikiki in ancient times. It was in the year 1826 that log was laid there and Kekuanaoa and I had filled the space between in the year 1846."
M. Kekuanaoa, sworn by the Word of God and stated, "The boundary on the Waikiki side is Lanai's pier to the large lumber lying to the pier, but formerly a nini (sic) rock had been the boundary leading seaward to the cooking house and to the sea.
I feel that Lanai has no interest where I had filled on the Waikiki side of that property. I had filled where the market now stands and had built a house. Later after this, Piikoi had said that he would work on that place and I had con-sented to what he had said he would do."
Keloha, sworn by the Word of God and stated, "I had lived by the market for 17 years under Hoaai and Hoaai under Keeumoku and under Piia. Upon his death living was under Kinau and under Kekuanaoa at this time. Kekuanaoa had built the market for he is Kinau's heir. I have seen the boundary of Hoaai's place, and I have $en the house built and part of Lanai's place did not extend into the market place, not in the least. We had filled the foundation of the market place believing it would be livable for someone. The boundary of Lanai's wharf on the Waikiki side is the huge timber there. Lanai has no right on the Waikiki side of that huge timber lying to the pier. The boundary of the lot of the market is toward the mountain of the market. The old stone wall is there just toward the mountain of the market, but the market is away from here. There is a street seaward of the boundary of the hotel. The small houses were ours originally where the market now stands. Lanai had no house there and I can point out where the hotel had stood. 'I have seen a little house where the house now sits toward the mountain of the market, named Kikila.
I have seen the ditch lying from the well to the wharf, yet inside of our place with our permission, water had flowed until it had ceased to flow, but that place was not possessed by Manini. The corrugated edge of an old stone wall in the ground on the Waikiki side had been the boundary for the hotel before and the stone wall that is sitting there had been Naihekukui's boundary."
[Award 626; R.P. 1769; Hotel & Merchant Sts Honolulu Kona; 1 ap.; .24 Ac.; Merchant St. Honolulu Kona; 1 ap.; .05 Ac.; See Award 619 for Foreign Register and Foreign Testimony documents]