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00987
Claim Number: 00987
Claimant: Hughes, William
Other claimant:
Other name:
Island: Hawaii
District: Kohala, South
Ahupuaa: Waimea
Ili: Pukalani
Statistics: 2243 characters 385 words
Claim No. 987, William Hughes, Waimea, Hawaii, October 14th 1847
F.R. 125-126v2


To the Honorable Commissioners, for quieting Land Titles, Gentlemen:
Agreeable to your public notice I hand to you my claim for a house lot now occupied by me, measuring as follows:

Lower side facing water side and residence of William French @ 190 ft. in length
Upper side facing Pookapu plains @ 230 feet in length
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.... and I had given to him. I had received this interest from Pahupu in 1843 by a sale of one cow and a horse and this had included the lot also. In the year 1844, William Hughes acquired this land together with everything I had there for five cows. No one has objected to this day.

(?)Iaoke Balo, sworn and stated, I have known exactly as Milikaa has stated here.

[Award 987; R.P. 8444; Pukalani Waimea S. Kohala; 1 ap. 1.03 Ac.]