Sovereign Sugar: Industry and Environment in Hawaii

Appendix 4: Missionary Land Purchases of Government/Crown Lands, 1850–1866

s a p p e n d i x 4 Missionary Land Purchases of Government/Crown Lands, 1850–1866 Missionary Name District Mission Station Dates of Purchases Acreage Total Plantation/Land Use1 Hawai‘i Island E. Bond Kohala Kohala 1852–1861 2,641 acres Kohala Sugar Plantation J. D. Paris S. Kona Kealakekua (Kona) 1853–1863 12,636 acres Personal use; family, sale D. B. Lyman Hilo Hilo 1855–1857 2,023 acres Hilo Boarding School, other W. C. Shipman Kā‘u Kā‘u 1858–1861 1,653 acres Keaau Ranch Maui W. P. Alexander Hai‘kū, Wailuku Wailuku 1849–1863 1,045 acres Haiku Sugar Plantation2 C. B. Andrews Makawao Hai‘kū 1860–1873 715 acres Sale in 18753 R. Armstrong Hai‘kū Honolulu 1849–1852 4,288 acres Haiku Sugar Plantation Also land on O‘ahu E. Bailey Wailuku Wailuku, Waikapū 1849–1866 2,235 acres Wailuku Plantation Kula D. Baldwin Lahaina Lahaina, Kula 1850–1865 1,721 acres Sale in 18704 G. P. Judd Hāna Honolulu 1850–1863 2,926 acres Brewer Plantation Hana Plantation5 Kaua‘i A. Wilcox Wai‘oli Wai‘oli, Hanalei 1851–1861 721 acres Sugar, Ranch W. H. Rice Līhu‘e Līhu‘e 1854–1861 shares Lihue Plantation unknown6 O‘ahu A. Bishop Wahiawā, ‘Ewa, Waialua ‘Ewa 1851–1855 1,848 acres S. N. Castle Waialua Honolulu 1851 500 acres Sale7 A. S. Cooke Waialua, Hāmākua Poko Honolulu 1851 388 acres Sale8 J. S. Emerson Waialua, Paukauila Hale‘iwa 1851–1867 2,465 acres Sources: Compiled from Hawaii Territory Commission of Public Lands, Index of all Grants; Jean Hobbs, Hawaii: A Pageant of the Soil, 157–177. Most of the significant government/crown land sales for early plantations occurred by 1865. These dates reflect multiple purchases. Use of land for plantation or otherwise is surmised from business histories of families or plantations. This table reflects only missionary families involved in agricultural and plantation development after 1860. 1. Where possible, lists sugar company or other land use. In some cases, when notation is sugar or ranch, some if not all of this land ended up eventually as sugar or ranchlands. 2. Wailuku properties sold to W. H. Bailey (sugar planter, son of Edward Bailey). 3. C. B. Andrews sold Makawao properties to Mossman & Anderson in 1875 at $6,000 for a (failed) sugar venture at Hāmākua Poko. 4. Baldwin bought a half interest (with S. E. Bishop and J. F. Pogue) in 2,675 acres of Maui land (unspecified district) in 1873. He sold his half interest in 1870 to Antonio Silva, a Maui sugar planter. 5. Judd sold the Hāna lands soon after he purchased them to a plantation interest. 6. All land deals were in purchases of shares in Lihue Plantation from H. A. Pierce (1854) and from C. R. Bishop (1861). 7. Sold to S. N. Emerson (missionary at Waialua station) in 1863. 8. Waialua land sold to C. R. Bishop in 1853. Hāmākua Poko land sold to C. H. Judd and Wilder in 1862. ...