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No. 67, Benjamin Pitman, Claimant, Byron's Bay, Hilo Hawaii, May 13, 1846
F.R. 74-75v1
To the Honorable Board of Commissioners for Quieting Land Titles; Gentlemen,
I herewith lay before you a schedule of a lot of land now held & occupied by me, situated on the land of Piihonua in the district of Hilo on the Island of Hawaii to the [sic] which I lay claim from the tenor following, to wit: The aforesaid land was formerly held by Hoolulu as his kihapai on which he lived many years, and on which some of his children were born, and given by him to me as his son-in-law, wishing to form a mercantile establishment. I thought it more advisable to write to his excellency Kuakini (the late Governor), for his permission, a copy of whose answer I also lay before you. On is authority, as acting on & in behalf of H.H. [His Hawaiian?] Majesty I enclosed the same as per drau ....
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.... ago from Namaha and Liholiho had given this land to Hoolulu."
John Ii, sworn by the Word of God and he said, "I have seen that property of Hoolulu in the year 1830 and it had been enclosed with a fence.
In the year 1837 the senior Pitman went to Hilo, in Hawaii, and he built a house there, and when the junior Pitman stopped living in Honolulu here, he went to his father's place in Hilo to live. Junior Pitman was married to Hoolulu's daughter at that time and in the year 1838, Hoolulu went to Maui to live permanently and that /this/ property in Hilo became Pitman's land, and I have known that he lived there peacefully, and in the year 1843, I saw /him/ again, everything had been settled, the lot has been enclosed and is fine. He has a store there and many other houses.
[Award 67; R.P. 14; Piihonua Hilo; 1 ap.; 1.92 Acs; Land Court App. 1851]