Mahele Documents

00034
Claim Number: 00034
Claimant: Neddles,
Other claimant:
Other name:
Island: Oahu
District: Kona,
Ahupuaa: Honolulu,
Ili: Adams
Statistics: 6807 characters 1204 words
No. 34, John Neddles, claimant
F.R. 46-46v1

To the Gentlemen of the Board of Commissioners for quieting land titles,

I have to your honorable Board, that the nature of my claim to a certain piece, a parcel of land in Honolulu, situated adjoining to the premises of George Pellly, & George Bush on the makai side, and those of Mr. Grimes & Stephen Reynolds on the mauka do [ditto] [side]; extending from the street passing the residence of William French to the street bounding the premises belonging to Captain Adams, which streets are the line way of 212 feet, and on the other sides 110 feet, is as follows:

I bought the said premises of John Colcord, blacksmith about June 14, 1824 and have occupied them ever since, having also built several houses & tenements thereon.

I would also claim another lot in Honolulu, now occupied as a fish market, situated on the corner, west of the Seaman Chapel, bounding in the rear on the store premises of Stephen Reynolds, as a gift, made to me by Boki about November 15, 1827. William Kauwai, a native of the Island can testify, that I lived on it, and had a well thereon. About six months after I made a voyage to the Spanish Main, and on my return, I found that the place had been taken from the person, in whose charge I had left it, by Manuia, who offered to ....

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.... y Kamehameha III said it was in Kailua, Koolau. We suggested they ask Kuene, perhaps he may prefer here. Kuene's preference was for Kailua, a place named Hauliwai, and belonging to Kuene's parents-in-law. Then we asked for the person who had Kailua and living there at the time. We were told that the property was an ili (a smaller division of the ahupuaa) within an ahupuaa we found a place for Kuene and urged him to go and look at this land. After he looked at it, Kuene still preferred Hauliwai. Haalilio informed Kuene that the land was for an ahupuaa; therefore, could not be given to him. Kuene complained to the King again for being without land. The King referred this matter to M. Kekauluohi and me and we told him that we had given him land, yet he had refused it.

Adjustors: Are Kuene's patches in Waolani for the King?

Governor Kekuanaoa: These patches are for the parents-in-law. She may have had money which was used for rental, I did not hear about this. The King gave Kuene all of Kailua.

Question: What about Kuene's house lot in Honolulu here?

Answer: That was a vacant land; we had driven Kinopu from our place and he went to live at this vacant place, where he has lived to the present time.

[Award 34; R.P. 7; Adams Lane Honolulu; 1 ap.; .54 Ac.]