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    "ocrText": "208\nAt a Superior Court, holden at Litchfield, in and for the County of Litchfield, in the State of\nConnecticut, on the\n15 Tuesday of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight\nhundred and siy four\nPRESENT-HON. by Deight Somies judge\nhundred the and is sixte four / day William Butcher\nof November\nthe it Rememberrd, That on\nin the\nyear of our Lord one thousand eight their Haven\nof Auggaunte\nCounty of 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\nWilliam Butcher\nthen exhibited to the Court a Certificate of the declaration of intention\nmade by him before the blerk of the Superior bourt for Ditchfuld County\nand required as the first condition according to the first section of the Act of Congress entitled \"An Aet to\nestablish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on, that subject.\"\nApproved 14th of April, 1802, 20 foltows: theacts passed in addition There as\nfollows,\nSTATE OF CONNECTICUT,\nCOUNTY OFK Sitchfield\nss.\nale it Remembered, That on the\n21\"\nday\nof October\nA. D. 1859, before the\nClerk' of the Superior Court, within and for said County,\nhaving Common Law jurisdiction, with a Clerk and a Seal, per-\nL.S.\nsonally appeared, William Butcher\nof changatuck\nin said\nNew Haven\nCounty, who was born\nin Devon lod England\naged about forty\nyears, and on oath did declare that\nit was bond fide his 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\nVectoria Sucent\nof the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom he is now a subject. In Testimony Where-\nof, I, FredR Deseman\nClerk of said Court, have hereunto set my\nhand, and Seal of the said Court, the day and year aforesaid.\nHinderick D Beeman\n-\nClerk.\nAnd it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that said William Butcher has\nresided\nwithin the United States five years at least,\nand in the State of Connecticut 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 good order and happiness of the same.\nAnd the\nsaid William Butcher\nhaving declared on oath, that he would support\nthe CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, and that he did absolutely and entirely renonnce\nand abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and\nparticularly to\nVicluria been\nof the United Kingdom of\nGreat Britain and Ireland, of whom the was before a subject. It was therefore considered by the Court,\nthat\nWilliam Butcher\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted\nto become a Citizen of the UNITED STATES."
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