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    "ocrText": "34\nAt\na\nSup Court, holden at Litchfield, in and for the County of Litchfield, in the State of\nConnecticut, on the\n41\nTuesday of\nIan\nin the year of our Lord one thousand eight\nhundred and liftyenin PRESENT-HON. David b. Sunfard deedye\nthe it Remembered, That on the Hund\nday of February\nin the\nyear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and lifty ann michael mialistic\nof Gesher\nin said County of Litehfield, being an alien and a free white person,\nappeared in open Court, (the said Court being a Court of Record, having Common Law Jurisdietion, and\na Clerk and Seal,) and applied to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States. And the said\nme allis be then exhibited to the Court Certificate of the declaration of intention\nmade by him before the blund of the Superior Countin\nand In the County of Silehpulal\nand required as the first condition according to the first section of the Act of Congress entitled \"An Actto\nestablish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.\"\nApproved 14th of April, 1802, as follows:\nSTATE OF CONNECTICUT,\nCOUNTY OF Silettune ss.\nthe it Remembered, That on the\n2 6th\nday\nof summer\nA. D. 185. 1, before the\nbluh of the Suprive Court, within and for said County,\nhaving Common Law jurisdiction, with a Clerk and a Seal, per-\nsonally appeared,\nL. S.\nmichael meallister\nof Geshur\nin said\nCounty, who was born in Lony bo.rulend\naged about\n37\nyears, and on oath did declare that\nit was bona fide this intention to become a CITIZEN OF THE\nUNITED STATES, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Poten-\ntate, State and Sovereignty, whatever-and particularly to\nVictimin Queen\nof the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom he is now a subject. In Testimony) Where-\nof, I, Fuel Le. Buman\nClerk of said Court, have hereunto set my\nhand, and Seal of the said Court, the day and year aforesaid. bieceda to live bas\nFurtrich Lo. Buman\nClerk.\nAnd it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that said mealistic has resided\nwithin the United States five years at least,\nJeant 1e avil adi nidtivi\nand in the State of Connectient one year at least, and that during said five years\nhe\nhas behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the\nUnited States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same. llow bas , botin\n1109 And the said me callister\nhaving declared on oath, that he would support\nthe CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, and that he did absolutely and entirely renounce\nand abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and\nparticularly to iclenical Queen\nof the United Kingdom of\nthat michael meallish\nGreat Britain and Ireland, of whom he was before a subject. It was therefore considered by the Court,\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted\nto become a Citizen of the UNITED STATES.\nadi\nto\nresitio\nempond\nof"
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