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Claim Number: 02228
Claimant: Kaapa
Other claimant:Ake, father
Other name:
Island: Hawaii
District: Hilo
Ahupuaa: Punahoa, Ponahawai
Ili:
Statistics: 2707 characters 459 words
No. 2228, Kaapa, Punahoa, Hilo, December 17, 1847
N.R. 406v3


Greetings to you all, the Land Commissioners: I hereby state my land claims. At Kalaoa are two 'ilis, Ulumehame and Hulueu. This was where Liholiho was born and my makuas lived there to care for the belongings of the 'li'is. Those 'ilis have been held from that time until the present. The house lot claim is at Punahoa and Ponahawai - there are two parcels of land in this house lot. The dimensions are 5 fathoms long by 4 fathoms wide and ....

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.... 2 ili lands. One is for Ulumalu and the other is Huluoolu. She has not known whether his /Kaapa/ father, Ake, had utilized all of those ilis nor has she actually seen Ake farming on those lands. She had only heard of these places as mentioned by name. At the present time, Halaki sees they belong to Kaapa although she has not seen the place where Kaapa has been cultivating. He has lived there since the time of Kamehameha I to the present time.

[Award 2228; R.P. 1152; Ponahawai Hilo; 1 ap.; 3.69 Acs; See also Award 8629]