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    "ocrText": "298\nAta Supervisor Court, holden at Litchfield, in and for the County of Litchfield, in the State of\nConnecticut, on the\n4\nTuesday January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight\nhundred\nand PRESENT-HON. city new the J. Granger judge\nBe it Rememberrò, That on\nthe\n25\nday of March\nin the\nyear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sexty nine John Docar\nof currhite\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 Jurisdiction, and\na Clerk and Seal,) and applied to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States. And the said\nJohn Dorcy\nthen exhibited to the Court a Certificate of the declaration of intention\nmade by him before\n4.co m Aut Clurk of the Super\nCourt fu sitthferen county\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,\n}\nss.\nCOUNTY OF directired\nthe it Remembered, That on the\n23 day\nof leach\nA. D. 1867, before the\nSuperior\nCourt, within and for said County,\nhaving Common Law jurisdiction, with a Clerk and a Seal, per-\nsonally appeared,\nL. S.\nJohn Dorcey\nof Windirton\nduland\nin said\nCounty, who was born in\naged about\n28 years, 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, Poten-\ntate, State and Sovereignty, whatever-and particularly to\nbectous guen\nof the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom he is now a subject. In Testimony Where-\nof, I, Gence me morametf but Clerk of said Court, have hereunto set my\nhand, and Seal of the said Court, the day and year aforesaid. sula Le we\nGeo m noodwaff but Clerk.\nAnd it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that said Jo he Donly\nhas resided\nwithin the United States five years at least,\nsull\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. How install\nAnd the said John Doney\nhaving declared on oath, that he would support\nthe\nCONSTITUTION 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 buttrea Jeen\nof the United Kingdom of\nGreat Britain and Ireland, of whom he was before a subject. It was therefore considered by the Court,\nthat John Doney\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted\nto become a Citizen of the UNITED STATES.\nto\nenvironment\nal"
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