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    "ocrText": "of\n19 s) Masuperin Court, holden at Litchfield, in and for the County of Litchfield, in the State of\nlit\nConnecticut, on the found Tuesday of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight\nhundred and\nbest\nPRESENT-HON fuel Himmer surge\nhe\nthe it Remembered, That on the fouth\nday of Damina\nin the\nn,\nof Grahan\nyear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixts William reupt\nin said County of Litchfield, being an alien and a free white person,\nnd\nappeared in open Court, (the said Court being a Court of Record, having Common Law Jurisdiction, and\nid\na Clerk and Seal,) and applied to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States. And the said\non\nMarphy\nthen exhibited to the Court a Certificate of the declaration of intention\nmade by him before\nand 2d abein\nthe leth of the County Cmint for sair (cump\nto\nand required as the first condition according to the first section of the Act of Congress entitled \"An Act to\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 Sitchpical\nss.\nday\nthe it demembered, That on the\nfirst\nday\nthe\nclerk of technology A. D. 185j, before the\nnty,\nEtter County Court, within and for said County,\nhaving Common Law jurisdiction, with a Clerk and a Seal, per-\nsonally appeared,\nL.S.\nWilliamullersty\nof Gorben\nin said\nsaid\nCounty, who was born in Irelands\nthat\naged about twenty-the years, and on oath did declare that\nHE\nit was bona fide his intention to become a CITIZEN OF THE\nUNITED STATES, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Poten-\nten-\ntate, State and Sovereignty, whatever-and particularly to\nVirtmin Queen\nof the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom he is now a subject. In Testimony Where-\nmy\nof, I, Henry B broun\nClerk of said Court, have hereunto set my\nhand, and Seal of the said Court, the day and year aforesaid.\nlost bas\nHenry B. Graw\nClerk.\nided\nAnd it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that said Mathian Umply has resided\nwithin the United States five years at least,\n18 avil batiou nill nidtiw\nand in the State of Connecticut one year at least, and that during said five years\nyears\nhe has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the\nf the\nUnited States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.\nAnd the said William llunkly having declared on oath, that he would\nsupport\npport\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 hictoria quem\nof the United Kingdom of\nGreat Britain and Ireland, of whom he was before a subject. It was therefore considered by the Court,\nthat said William Murking\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted\nto become a Citizen of the UNITED STATES."
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