Mahele Documents

02273
Claim Number: 02273
Claimant: Kealalaina
Other claimant:
Other name:
Island: Oahu
District: Kona
Ahupuaa: Honolulu
Ili: Kapapoko
Statistics: 2139 characters 373 words
No. 2273, Kealalaina, Honolulu, Oahu, December 29, 1847
N.R. 423-424v3


Greetings to the Land Commissioners: I hereby state to you my claim for a house lot in Kapapoko here in Honolulu. In the year 1817 or perhaps 1818, my makuahine was living in this place. This was the time that Liholiho sailed from Hawaii to Kauai on the Waapa /literally, board canoe - a small foreign boat./ She built a house there a ....

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.... ent lot.

Mahuka had given him his land before 1839 and he has lived there to the present time. I have not known that anyone has objected, unless it has been the government, perhaps.

Kuihelani, sworn, I have known just as Mahana does about the boundaries and life there but I have not known of anyone who has objected. I have hearsay only that the government had protested.

[No. 2273 not awarded]