Royal School (Hawaii)

[2] An 1844 article in the Polynesian listed all children with the exception of John William Pitt Kīnaʻu, who had just enrolled, as "princes and chiefs eligible to rulers.

[citation needed] Seven families that were eligible under succession laws stated in the 1840 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii[citation needed] and that had converted to Christianity, who were Kamehameha's closest relatives, made up the majority of the school.

[5] It was a long, two-story frame building with a large dining room and separate sleeping quarters for the children and for the Cooke family.

There was also the New England parlor, furnished with handmade and treasured furniture sent from home, and with much brought from China.

The Hawaiian kahu (traditional caretaker of children) John Papa ʻĪʻī was selected as assistant teacher.

For example, Moses left school in 1847 to live with his father and died in the 1848 measles epidemic.