Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-03-05
A REMARKABLE ROMANCE,
A CHICAGO LADY's CLAIM TO SAND
WITCH ISLANDS PROPERTY.
How an American Sailor Became
the Husband of a Kings Niece
,Iobu Xnuno'S Stony

How an American Sailor Became
the Husband Of a Kings Niece
John YOung's Story.
4 Chicago lady claims an interest in
large estates in the Hawaiian Islands, and
has retained Chicago firm to prosecute
her claim. 1t is based on her blood re-
latlontionship to John Young, who mar
ried in tie royal family of the islands,
became Governor of Hawaii and grand
fataer of the late Queen Emma.
About the year 1889 John Young, boat
swain of the ship Eleanor, Captain Met
calf, sailed from Cape Cod. A year later
she dropped auchor at 0whyhee, and after
trading with the natives for few days
she went to Mawhee, another of the Ha
wailan group. While at ancho there two
native chiefs swan to the Eleanor one
night and stole a small boat, which
fioated astern of the ship, and in which
was sailor who had fallen asleep. The
chiefs pushed the boat silently ashore,
where they murdered the sailor.
They burned the boat to obtain
the nails in it, which were almost in
valuable to them for the purpose of max
ing fishhoOks. Captain Mescalf offered
a reward for the return of the sailors
body and any part of the boat. This
brought to the vessel many canoe loads
of natives be ring remains of the siior
and bringing produce for purposes of
trade; many came through curiosity.
Captain Mctcalf gathered all the canoes
on one side of the vessel and then sud-
denly running out the guns, loaded with
grape shot, bullets and nails fred upon
the natives, killing and mangling over
100 of them. The vessel then sailed to
Karakakooa bay, in the island of
Owhyhee.
At this time small schooner of twenty
six tons consort of the Eleanor, COM
manded by Captain Metcalf's soa and
crew of six men, lay OF the coast of
Kanaihal, trading with the natives. The
crew knew nothing of the massacre
which had occurred, but the natives d,
and they determined to have revenge.
A high chief Kameeimokie went aboard
the cOnsort with several men, with ap-
pareatly peaceful intentions Watching
their Opportunity they seized young Met
calf and threw him owe board, where he
was drowned All the sailors
but one, named Henry Davis,
were killed with clubs. Davis
was carried ashore, badly wounded, to be
burned as a sacrifice. A day later the
Eleanor sailed from Kalakakooa bay, ac-
cidentally leaving on shore John Young,
the boatswan. Discovering that, Cap
tin Metcalf stopped the vessel about
two miles from shore, where he waited
for two days, signaling for Young whom
the natives restrained
Young and Davis would have been
killed had it not been that Kaonaeha, a
high lady, fell in love with Young and
by her intercessiOn with the king saved
the lives Of both sailors. Kaoanaeha
was the most beautiful woman on the
island of Owhyhee aud was the admira-
tion of all the sailors who visited Kara
kakooa bay. She was the only daughter
OF Kellimalki, the favorite brother of
the great king, Kamehameha the First.
J. Young and Kaonaeha were soon
married. King Kamehameha appreci-
ated the superior talents of the white men
and made them hi Oh chieSs. They taught
the natives many things and sowed the
seed of Christianity among them. When
the navigator Van Couver visited the
Island, in 1893, he was entertained by
King kamehameka and John Young, who
was then the kings chief counselor
Young built the first house on the
island Of Hawaii. It's ruins are stil to
be seen. 1t is of stone. Young had no
tools but a hatchet and wooden trowel.
He-made the door with the hatchet,
hewing it out of koa tree slab He
whitewa he'd the house with lime made
from white coral, fished from the seas.
Here Young and Kaonaeha lived and
died, and here their daughter, Fannie
Young Kekelaoka'ini, was born In
1894 each islmd of the group was a sep
arate kingdom About this time Ka-
mehameha made war on the other
islands and eventually conquered all of
them, becoming the first king of the
Sandwich Islands. In these wars he was
greatly aided by Young, by the firearms
and the military instruction he had re-
ceived from Van Couver and by the yes.
sci taken from Metcalf's son. King Ka-
mahamaha died May s, 1919; in the pres
ence of John Young and all his chiefs.
He was succeeded by his brother John
Young died in 1895 at an advanced age,
| leaving to his daughter an immense
| fortune in lands and cattle.
The last defendant of Kamehameha,
Queen Emma Kaleleonalani, died last
April, leaving no issue. She was the
daughter of Fanny Young Kaonaeha and
John Young. Queen Emma was born in
Honolulu in 1886. She married Kam-
eaameha ~, and on his death she became
queen.
From the other branch of John Young's
family the living descendants come from
Parmelia Crane, who was daughter of
John Young's sister. Mrs. Crane died
November 6, 1885, aged ninety-two
years. She was born in Massachusetts,.
Her first husband was Charles Adams.
She was n warm personal friend of Car
dinal McClosl1ey. Mrs. Pa lemia Cranes
daughter is Mrs. Josephine Smith, of
Chicago, and her daughter is Mrs Joseph
inc Fisher, of 209 Morgan street. Mrs
Fisher proposes to prosecute the. claim
of the family to any estate in the Hawaiian
islands rightfully belonging to the heirs
of John Young.