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Claim Number: 05166
Claimant: Keikenui
Other claimant:
Other name:
Island: Oahu
District: Kona
Ahupuaa: Honolulu
Ili: Merchant St.
Statistics: 2377 characters 391 words
No. 5166, Keikenui, Honolulu, January 25, 1848
N.R. 14-15v5


Greetings to the Land Commissioners: I hereby state my claim for a house lot here in Honolulu. The boundaries are shown on the diagram sent herewith. Kekuanaoa gave me this place in the year 1844. It was a place of cultivation only, there was no fence, and I made the fence and built the house. The reason this place became mine was that when I was living in the lot of Kekuanaoa, a cattle corral ....

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.... 's house lot

He had received this place from M. Kekuanaoa in 1844. Keikinui had a house lot elsewhere but when Kekuanaoa built a corral, which created a problem for Keikinui, Kekuanaoa willingly gave him this place when he had asked for it and he has been there to the present time. No one has objected.

Mokunui, sworn, The testimony above is true; I have known in the same way.

[Award 5166; no R.P.; Merchant St. Honolulu Kona; 1 ap.; .11 Ac.]