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    "ocrText": "TO Thz HONORABIE County\nCOURT, now sitting in Hartford, in and\nPfor Hartford County, Au 9 ust Term, A. D. 1039\nThe Petition of Christian Vensel of Berlin in the County of Heautforce\nrespectfully sheweth, that he is a Epreigner, having been born in the County of Schalback Indiruk\nin Schwolbach, in the Year A. D. 1804 , that he is a subject of A William the\nin Phussia\nPrissia\nKing of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irchand That he emigrated to the United\nStates in A. D. 1814, that A before the County Court, held at Hartford, within and for the\nCounty of Hartford, on the 4th Tuesday of March D. 835; to wit on the 7 th\nday\nApril 1835 (said Court being: Court of Record, having Common Law, jurisdiction and a\nClerk and Seal) he declared on oath his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to re-.\nnounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any Foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty whatev-\ner, and particularly to said William the Fourth, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and\nIreland, as by certificate, duly authenticated, ready in Court to be shewn appears-that he has resided\nduring the last five years constantly, in the United States, and for the last year in the State of Connecti-\ncut. That he has behaved during said five years as a man of good moral character, attached to the princi-\nples of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the\nsame. Whereupon he prays your Honors, to take his case into consideration, and on finding the facts\ntrue, to admit him to be a citizen of the United States, according to the Acts of Congress in such case\nprovided, as he in duty bound shall pray.\nDated at Hartford, August 141 th, A. D. 1839.\nChristian Vensel"
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