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Claim Number: 00432
Claimant: Siboa, Atoni/Sylva, Anthony
Other claimant:
Other name: Sylva, Anthony
Island: Maui
District: Wailuku
Ahupuaa: Waikapu
Ili: Lehuapueo
Statistics: 2829 characters 483 words
No. 432, Atoni Siboa, Wailuku, February 10, 1847, /Anthony Sylva/
N.R. 157-159v2


To the Honorable Land Commissioners, Greetings: I hereby tell of my claim to the land of Lehuapueo at Wailuku [Waikapu], Maui, which is on the bank of the south side of the big stream, on the west is the government road, north is the land called Aikanaka, east are the lands called Koolau and Luaapuaa.

I am also sending the diagram of this land. This land was given me by Kaai five years previous to this. When I was given this land there were few taro patche ....

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.... helpers, one of them only now. I do not know the reason the other (helper) has left us.

Mahuka, sworn, I have seen his property at Waikapu which is named Lahuapueo and Kaai had given it to him. Kaai had received it from his parents. The land was in good condition when he (Sylva) had received it and there were people on the place. Kaai had written to me and I gave it (land) to him. That person there built houses there, two mud houses and one grass house.

[Award 432; R.P. 102; Lehuapueo Waikapu; 1 ap.; 8.2 Ac.; (Gr 1844, 3041 & 1515)]