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Claim 8510, Charles W. Vincent, Honolulu, February 7, 1848
F.R. 23-24v3
To the Board of Land Commissioners, &c. Gentlemen, I lay before you my claim to the lot of ground in Honolulu and described & bounded the deed and diagram herewith transmitted, &c.[no diagram in this text]
Signed &c, Charles W. Vincent.
Know all men by these presents that I, J. Isaac Montgomery, a subject of Great Britain, resident of Oahu, Sandwich Islands, in consideration of the sum of 350 dollars to me paid by Charles W. Vincent, carpenter, a citizen of the United States of America, now a resident of Oahu, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, s ....
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.... ry, sworn, says the deed now presented by the claimant is correct. The lot in question was occupied and held by my wife and her aunt, Kamakakoa, deceased, at the time I arrived in Honolulu, in July 1838, from which time the lot was held by my wife up to the time we sold it to the present claimant. Never heard of any dispute to her title.
P.F. Manini, sworn, says he knows the lot claimed by Vincent. It belonged anciently to the ancestors of Mrs. Montgomery, from to whom it descended after them, and she held undisputed possession of it up to the time they sold it to Vincent in 1843.
[Award 8510; R.P. 3490; King St. Honolulu Kona; 1 ap.; .07 Ac.]