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Claim No. 850, Mrs. John Dominis
F.R. 115-117v2
To Honorable William L. Lee & others, Commissioners &c for quieting land titles.
Gentlemen:
At the request of Mrs. John Dominis, I have the honor to submit for the inspection and decision of your honorable body, her husband's title to the land built upon and occupied at present by herself, in the village of Honolulu. The deed of sale in itself, will I presume, be sufficient for you honorable body to decide upon, but should any other evidence on her part be necessary, she will feel obliged to be informed of the same.
Signed, C, Francis Johnson
Honolulu, November 2, 1847
Know all men by these presents, that I, Richard Charlton, a subject of her Brittanic Majesty, at present, her Majesty's Consul at the Sandwich islands, for and in consideration of the sum of six hundred dollars paid to me by John Dominus [Dominis], a citizen of the United States of American, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell & convey, to the said John Dominus, his heirs and assigns, a certain tract and parcel of land bounded as follows:
On the southwest wall of the land known to be mine (as pe [sic per] deed or copy of which is ....
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.... with his signatures which I know to be genuine, and I should say it was the same.
Joseph H. Smith, sworn, I am acquainted with Richard Charlton's hand writing, and I should say that his signature to this deed was genuine. It corresponds with all his signatures that I have seen. I have often seen write his name, or that which I knew to be written by him.
N.T. 110v3
No. 850, W. Mary Dominis, June 19, 1848
The first witness for this interest is the land conveyance document from Charlton to Dominis written on the 26th of December, 1840, and the number of witnesses in that document who are: G. F. Greenway, E. Espenor and T. H. Nesitin.
W. Holt, sworn and he said, I am familiar with the handwriting of the witnesses in the land bill of sale, but they are all gone; no one has remained here. Espena sailed on the ship Okohola; I do not know his address. I also do not know all of their addresses.
G. H. Smith, sworn and said, I have seen Charlton's handwriting and those of the witnesses and I believe those are their signatures on the land bill of sale which belongs to Dominis.
[Award 850; R.P. 3462; Washington Place, Beretania St. Honolulu Kona; 1 ap.; 1.25 Acs.; See also award 4888]