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Keaiwa Ahupuaa, District of Kau, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume A. No. 1, pps 115-121
No. 28
The Ahupuaa of Keaiwa, District of Kau, Island of Hawaii 3rd Judicial Circuit
On this the Twenty-First day of March A.D. 1873 the Commissioner of Boundaries for the 3rd Judicial Circuit, Island of Hawaii, met at the house of F.S. Lyman, Kauhuhuula, Kau, after notice personally served on agent of Hawaiian Government lands and owners of adjoining lands for the hearing of the application of F.S. Lyman for the settlement of Boundaries of the Ahupuaa of Keaiwa, situated in Kau, Hawaii.Present F.S. Lyman for self; J. Kauhane on part of Hawaiian Government; and Kuhana holding Royal Patent Number 2808 on Northeast side of land.
Petition read as follows:
Kau, March 6th 1873
Honorable R.A. Lyman, Commissioner of Boundaries, Hawaii
May it please your Honor to have the boundaries of the land called Keaiwa in Kau formerly owned by Keohokalole, and sold to your Petitioner, by whom it is now owned; defined and settled and surveyed.
The said land is bounded as follows.On the East by the sea, with fishing rights in the sea.On the South by the Land of Wailoa; as per Royal Patent no.[left blank] sold by the Government to F.S. Lyman, from the sea into the lower part of the roads; and from thence along the land of the Government, Wailoa, to the upper end of the land. On the West by the land of Kaalaala, owned by the Government.
On the North by the land of Kaalala, owned by the Government down to the land described in Royal Patent No. 2808 sold by the Government to Kalua; and now owned by his heir Kuhana thence following along his boundary to the south corner of said land; thence along the boundary of the land Kaapahu to the sea said Kaapahu is owned by the Government
Yours respectfully, (sign) F.S. Lyman
Testimony
J. Kaonohi, Kane, sworn, I live at Keaiwa.Born in Hilo lived there a few years then removed to Kau and have lived here ever since I am a kamaaina of Kau and know boundaries of Keaiwa and adjoining lands, used to go after mamaki sticks for houses etc.The old kamaainas of Wailoa showed me the boundaries of Keaiwa, as we used to have to pay the konohiki of Wailoa for going there and the konohiki of Keaiwa for going on that land, after mamaki and other things. So it was necessary for us to know the boundaries in order to keep out of trouble with konohiki of adjoining lands. Uweloa (kane) used to go up to the canoe makers with food, and also make canoes. I went to help draw them down. In old times when there was a famine we used to go up to the Koa groves for fern to eat.
Wailoa joins Keaiwa on the South side from the shore into the fern. Has been sold by the Hawaiian Government to F.S. Lyman, Wailoa1st joins Keaiwa and runs up to Koa, Kaalaala joins Keaiwa mauka and North side down to Kalua's land, Royal Patent No. 2808; thence from the makai side of said land it is bounded by the land of Kaapahu ....
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.... />North 63½° West 22.30 chains
North 33½° West 15.60 chains to an ohia tree marked X
North 46° West 21.50 chains to koa tree marked K
North 30° West 3.70 chains to koa tree marked W.
North 46 3/4° West 70.25 chains to koa tree marked U
North 76 3/4° West42.25 chains
North 64° West 36.50 chains to ohia tree marked [upside down V] at the lower edge of the "Apanahua" woods, where the koa forest ceased; thence along the lower edge of the "Apanahua" woods,
North 48°
East 14.25 chains to X cut in bedrock of the "Kuee" ravine; thence down this ravine which is the boundary between Keaiwa and Kaalaala, viz.
South 72 3/4° East 3.65 chains
South 18 3/4° East 8.60 chains
South 43° East 8.70 chains
South 51¼° East 17.80 chains
South 80½° East 35.50 chains
South 57 3/4° East 19.75 chains
South 85° East 6.30 chains
South 39¼° East 14.15 chains
South 49° East 16.35 chains
North 88° East 2.84 chains to I cut in bedrock.
South 68½° East 5.68 chains
South 40½° East 11.30 chains to V cut in bedrock
South 37° East 12.70 chains to D cut in bedrock; thence leaving the "Kuee" ravine and follow down an Awawa, South 3.25 chains [page 121]
South 57¼° East 23.45 chains to head of the Kauhikaolo stream near an ohia tree marked 1X; thence down the Kauhikaolo stream about the following courses, viz.
South 46½° East 33.44 chains
South 35 3/4° East 43.40 chains to X cut in bedrock
South 48° East 48.15 chains
South 64¼° East 10.00 chains
South 79¼° East 13.75 chains
North 88 3/4° East 17.90 chains to North corner of Kahia's land; thence along Kahia's land boundary, as per Royal Patent No. 2808.
South 18° East 11.50 chains
South 9° East 2.79 chains
South 72¼° East 55.00 chains
South 63 3/4° South [sic] 53.65 chains to a pile of stones, thence along the Government - land Kaapahu
South 55¼° East 25.80 chains to X cut in the pahoehoe
South 54 3/4° East 13.15 chains to A cut in the pahoehoe
South 49° East 25.00 chains to L cut in the pahoehoe
South 55¼° East 8.25 chains to I cut in a stone
South 52½° East 51.00 chains to K cut in the pahoehoe
South 79½° East 42.20 chains to + cut in the pahoehoe
South 79° East 50.00 chains to T cut in the pahoehoe
South 77° East 63.00 chains to Mawae, a volcanic chasm
South 64½° East 18.54 chains to H cut in the pahoehoe
South 67¼° East 141.40 chains to point of commencement.
Containing an area of 20.78 acres more or less and also the fishing rights in the sea for one mile from the shore of the same width as the width of the land at the shore.
R.A. Lyman, Commissioner of Boundaries, 3d Judicial Circuit
Costs 2 days being 20, 28 folio testimony 7.-, Certification. 2.-, Stamp 1.-. description in folio 5.50, Testimony each 5.-, paid in full 45.50
[No. 28, Keaiwa Ahupuaa, District of Kau, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission; 20.78 acres, 1874]