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    "ocrText": "80\nAt Court, holden at Litchfield, in and for the County of Litchfield, in the State\nof\nConnecticut, on the\ng\nTuesday of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight\nhundred and\nsixty PRESENT-HON Eriginal Seymourn fredge\nthe it Rememberrd,\nThat\non\nthe\n17th\nday of October if\nin the\nof/our\nLord\none\nthousand\nof year Bitchfield\neight hundred and sixty Alexander Grayan\nin said County of Litchfield, being an alien and a free white person,\nappeared in open Court, (the said Court being a Court of Record, having Common Law Jurisdiction, and\na Clerk and Seal,) and applied to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States. And the said\nAlexander Grossion of the declaration of intention\nthen exhibited to the Court a Certificate\nmade by him before the blerk. of the superior Countfor said encouring\nand required as the first condition according to the first section of the Act of Congress entitled \"An Actfo\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 Sitchfuld\nss.\nthe it That on the zjo\nday\nof September\nA. D. 185 , before the\nsuperior\nCourt, within and for said County,\nhaving Common Law jurisdiction, with a Clerk and a Seal, per-\nsonally appeared,\nL.S.\nof bornwall\nAlexander Geojoen\nCounty, who was born in Pans France\nin said\naged about 23\nyears, and on oath did declare that\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, Poteil-\ntate, State and Sovereignty, whatever-and particularly to\nLouisehapter emporors France\nof the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom he is HOW subject. In Testimony Where-\nof, I, Frederick D Beeman\nClerk of said Court, have hereunto set my\nhand, and Seal of the said Court, the day and year aforesaid. hine lo lasa bria Jund\nFredench D Beeman\nClerk.\nAnd it the appearing United to States the satisfaction five years of least, the Court, that said Alexander us on fronjion butinD has sill\nresided\nwithin at\nnultio\nand in the State of Connectieut one year at least, and that during said five years\nhe has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the\nUnited States, and well disposed to the geod order and happiness of the same.\n1\nllew\nban\nCONSTITUTION And the said Alexander UNITED having declared absolutely on oath, that and he entirely would\nsupport\nthe OF THE STATES, and that he did renounce\nand abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and\nparticularly Great to Sours trapolion Empown of France of the United Kingdom\nof\nBritain and Ircland, of whom he was before a subject. It was therefore considered by the Court,\nthat\nto a UNITED ISTATES.\nbecome Alexander Citizen of the Gransferm\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted"
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