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No. 6243, Kaohie, Lahaina, 20 December 1848
N.R. 356v6
Greetings to the Land Commissioners: In accordance with your announcement to state our claims, therefore I state my house lot claim and lo`i claim at Kilolani in Lahaina, Maui.
I received it from my wahine, whose name was Kanekoa; on her death I inherited it, together with the house site. I lived there for many days, then the land went to the Mo`i, except the house site which I occupy at this time.
Five lo`i which are on that land are my own; they do not pertain to the konohiki and the king, but are my own; therefore I present my claim to y ....
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.... seen this house lot which belongs to Kaohie in Puako, it had been for his wife Kanekoa. She had received it as a vacant land in 1824, and had lived there with her first husband. She died in 184, and no one had objected to her. Kaauwai has heard this lot and the entire land have been bequested to Kaohie.
Kanekoa had been Keopuolani's guardian, at the time she (Keopuolani) was being breast fed from the mother of the King (Kamehameha III).
Kaohie was opposed by the King in 1843, the reason for this act was unknown to Kaauwai.
[Award 6243; R.P. 1885; Kilolani Lahaina; 1 ap.; 2.65 Acs; Hewahewanui?]