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Claim Number: 05820
Claimant: Kapunae
Other claimant:Kapunae 2; heir; Lihue opposes
Other name:
Island: Oahu
District: Koolaupoko
Ahupuaa: Kaneohe
Ili: Keaahala, Ulupau, Heleloa
Statistics: 4023 characters 672 words
No. 5820, Kapunae
N.R. 149v5


Greetings to the Land Commissioners: I hereby state my claim for land. I have two lo`i in Keaahala in Kaneohe. Panalaau is the Konohiki. In the land of Kekahimoku I have two salt mo`o. In the land of Kekai at Ulupau is a sweet potato kula. At Heleloa is a kula planted in gourd. I got these in the time of Keaniani.
KAPUNAE


F.T. 462v3
No. 5820, Kapunai, 4th May 1853, Disputed for the King, from page 303, volume 14

Lihue, sworn says, he knows the part of this claim now in dispute. In the ili of "Paeli," Kaneohe there are 2 patches in dispute. They were koele patches in the time of Kamehameha I, when he lived at Waikiki. I am the luna of the konohiki on that land. I have been luna about 4 years and I have worked t ....

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No. 1 is bounded:
Mauka by a poalima
Koolauloa by the loi of Koolau
Makai by the loi of Kahelena
Kailua by the loi of Ku.

No. 2 is bounded:
Mauka by upland
Koolauloa by salt pits of Kalaikilo
Makai by salt pits of Ilihara
Kailua by salt pits of Kuiaia.

No. 3 is bounded: On all sides by upland.

Claimant had his land from Opunui in the time Keaniani in the time of Liliha and had in peace till the time of his death in the year 1848. An adopted son, Kapunae is his heir. During the present year the new konohiki has taken the two taro patches of claim and on the ground of it being a poalima but is was not a poalima.

Kawakawa, sworn, says the above is all true.

[Award 5820; R.P. 1382; Keaahala Kaneohe Koolaupoko; 3 ap.; 2.18 Acs]