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00653
Claim Number: 00653
Claimant: Kaahanui
Other claimant:
Other name:
Island: Maui
District: Kaanapali
Ahupuaa: Honokohau
Ili:
Statistics: 2126 characters 344 words
No. 653, Kaahanui, Lahaina, Maui, July 28, 1847
N.R. 323-324v2


Greetings to you, Richards, and your associate Land Commissioners: Here is my petition to you, the land commissioners: My lands are being taken from me little by little, almost all are taken except for my ancient interest which remains in the land.

Here is how the interest was established: /From; Kamehamehanui, the Ali`i to my ....

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.... most ended, as tenant. Therefore, I am petitioning because of my ancient interest here. Because of this trouble I want to tell you of my dispossession from this ancient right, which was from the grandparents and the parents to myself, and I am telling you of the rightness of my claim.
Farewell to you all, I am, with thanks,
KAAHANUI
See page 284 [Award 593]

[No. 653 not awarded; See 5776 and 593]