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    "ocrText": "At a Seperier Court, holden at in and\n305\nLitchfield, for the County of Litchfield, in the State of\nConnecticut,\non the 4 Tuesday of January\nin\nhundred and Sixty nine\nthe year of our Lord one thousand eight\nPRESENT-HON. Miles T. Granger Judge\nthe it Remembered, That on\nthe\n25 day of March\nin the\nof Airchester\nyear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and dutty nine william Kirk\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\nWilliam Kink\nthen exhibited to the Court a Certificate of the declaration of intention\nmade by him before\ndepense bount of suchfied country\nGro m moderiffed Ant Cluk of the\nand required as the first condition according to the first section of the Act of Congress entitled \"An Actio\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 deterfered\n|\nss.\nthe it That on the\n23 day\nof leugh\nSuperior\nA. D. 1867, before the\nCourt, within and for said County,\nhaving Common Law jurisdiction, with a Clerk and a Seal, per-\nL.S.\nsonally appeared, Wellain Kerk\nof Winitection\nCounty, was\nwho born in Nothingham England in said\naged about\n37\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 Priuce, Poten-\ntate, State and Sovereignty, whatever-and particularly to\nbata\nbectoun Tueen\nof the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom he is now a subject. In Testimony Where-\nof, I, Geo un moodupf Art Clerk of said Court, have hereunto set my\nhand, and Seal of the said Court, the day and year aforesaid.\nand ada lo bes deal\nthe In noodwiff Albertlerk\nAnd it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that said William Kik has resided\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 said William Kiik\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 buthea Lew\nof the United Kingdom of\nGreat Britain and Ireland, of whom he was before a subject. It was therefore considered by the Court,\nthat Welloin Kink\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted\nto become a Citizen of the UNITED STATES.\nand\nto"
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