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sNo. 280B, H. L. Swinton, Claimant, Maui
F.R. 176-181v1
To the Honorable Board of Commissioners, &c &c, Gentlemen:
I have the honor to enclose herewith my title to the premises situated in the Town of Lahaina, formerly owned & occupied by John J. Halstead, as a Carpenters Workshop. Requesting from the honorable Board a confirmed title in accordance with the laws of the Country .
Signed, HENRY L. SWINTON
Lahaina, December 22, 1846
[margin note: Received Survey 28 Aug 1848]
Claim No. 1
Know all men by these presents that I, George Lawrence, for the consideration of the sum of one hundred dollars, have made over allmy right, title & interest unto Mr. John J. Halstead, carpenter, Lahaina. Maui, to a certain piece of land situated in said Lahaina, and being situated & bounded as follows, viz., Beginning at the corner North by east of the premises now occupied by the said J.J.Halstead on the Lahainaluna road & extending on said road twenty-one feet; then turning and running at right angles eighty-one feet six inches, then turning & running twenty-one feet in a southerly direction, to the lower corner of Mr. Halsteads lot, then turning & running to the point started from on the road or highway leading to Lahainaluna. in the year of our Lord 1842.
George Lawrence, X, his mark
Witness: William P. Avis, Sherman Peck
Lahaina, Maui, November 18, 1846
For and in consideration of value received, viz. the Schooner Jane and appurtenances pro Bill of Sale and register this day received from Henry L. Swinton; I, the above written John Joseph Halstead, do assign over to the said Henry ....
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.... ent of deed & title of lands and severally acknowledge that they had executed the same for the uses & purpose therein set forth; and the same Waikakeilani being separately examined by me apart from her husband confessed that she was acting voluntarily & without compulsion fear or constraint from her husband.
Samuel J. Tennent
Agent to take acknowledgements for Island of Maui at Lahaina
November 18, 1846,
F.T. 140-142v1
Claim No. 280B, H. S. Swinton, Maui, 1847, See N. Testimony II P. 160,
Kalaipuleho, sworn:
George Lawrence, sworn deposed, acknowledging the signatures to the original deeds. In 1834 Witness was living on the premises in question, and bargained with men to make the adobies for the place. I heard that the Premises were given him by Kalaikou for building a stone house for him. These remarks apply only to the first lot.
Note. Kaeo is the witness in relation to the plot on the southeast side of the road.
N.T. 160v2
No. 280B, H.L. Swinton, Wailuku, February 12, 1847
Naleipuleho, sworn, I have seen Keoki's place in Lahaina which is just mauka of the foreign church house where in the year 1834 Keoki was living there and I had contracted for the soil with which to build the fence. Kalaikoo had given him this place for having built a house for him. The house that I had rented is the one I have known (Kaeo is the person who knows about the giving away of the lot which is on the other end of the road).
[Award 280B; Kapahumanamana Lahaina; 1 ap. 253 fathoms 33 ft.; Kelawea Lahaina; 1 ap.; 253 fathoms 33 feet]