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    "ocrText": "I\nJames Sing\nNow residing in Enfield, in Hartford County, do solemnly swear, that it is bona fide my intention to\nbeçome a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any\nForeign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to William the Fourth,\nKing of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to whom 1 am now a subject. So help\nme God.\ngames sins\nHeartford County from County boul ang. 25.08.1832\nswom to in R boml\nallest Iand Grisult cl\nI James Sing\nResiding in Enfield, in the County of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, do make report to JARED\nGRISWOLD, Esq., Clerk of the Court in said That I was born in\nCounty County,\nInclaid in the year 1802 now under allegiance to William\nthe Fourth, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland : that I emigrated from\nNewerey\nin Irland\nand I arrived at Newyork in 1827\nand that I intend to settle in Enfuld\nin the United\nStates of America.\nof ones sems\nKeen this 25th day of augh A. 1832, & recorded\nin the recerds of the County bount Hartford\nCounty, Connectient\ntry Jana Gright bleh"
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