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    "ocrText": "415\nWinchester\nAl a Superior\nCourt, holden at birchfield, in and for the County uf Litchfield, in the State of Connecticut, on the\nFirst\nTuesday of October\nin the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and mine ty six.\nPRESENT-HON Raeph wheeler, Judge\nBe it Remembered, That on\nthe\n24 th\nday of October\nin the year\nof our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety six Harry Morton\nof michister\nin said County of Litchfield, being an alien and free white person, appeared\nin\nopen Court, (the said Court being a Court of Record, having Common Law Jurisdiction, and a Clerk and Seal,) and applied\nto be admitted to become a citizen of the United States. And the said Hanry Morton\nthen exhibited to the Court a Certificate of the Declaration of intention made by him before the blerk of the bourt\nand required as the first condition according to the first section of the Act of Congress entitled \"An Act to establish an\nof Common Heascrithin and for the bount ty of Litchfield\nuniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.\" Approved 14th of April, 1802;\nt\nand the acts passed subsequently thereto, to wit :\nlimited States of America.\nstate of Connecticut.\nBe it unimmed beend that the following person himself, on sheday and\ndate set against his name, appeared before the bark of the\nbount of bommon He as for the bounty of Litchfield, within said\nCounty, the said bourt being a bourt of Record, having Common on\nLaw jurivdiction, and a blerk and seal, and de clased on oath\nthat it was bona fide his intention to be come a citigen of the\nUnited States, and to Renom ce foreveral allegiance and\nfidelity to any Foreign n Prince, Potentate, State, or sovercignty\nwhatever, and particularly to the Prince, Potentate statur\nPovereignty set against his name, of which he has hithuto\nbeen a subject\nName\nResident of\ndate\nsubject of the government of\nHarry Morton\nminchester in\nOct. 13.1892\ntreat Britain\nLitchfield\nbounty.\nIn Testimony whenof I have hereunto set my hand and\n(seal)\nof fixed the seal of said bourt of Common Pleas, at\nminchester this 13th day October A. D. 1892\nAm F. Hurbut bleck\nthe United States five years at least\nAnd it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that said Hany Morton\nhas resided within\nand in the State of Connecticut one year at least, and that during said five years he\nhas behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well\ndisposed to the good order and happiness of the same.\nAnd the said Harry Morton\nhaving declared on oath, that he would support the\nCONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, and that he did absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance\nand fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to the government\nofthe United Kingdom of Great Britian and Ireland, of whom he was before a\nsubject. It was therefore considered by the Court, that said Hanly Morton\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted to become a Citizen of the UNITED STATES.\nClerk."
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