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    "ocrText": "January Term 1046\n113\nBE IT BEMEMBERED That on the Fourth\nday of march\nin the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty Sis\nThomas Hunter\nof cenfield\nin said County\naid County\nof Hartford, appeared in open Court, (the said Court being a Court of Record, having common Law juris-\nLaw juris-\ndiction, and a Clerk and seal,) and applied to be admitted and to become a citizen of the United States. And\nates. And\nthe said stooal Hunter\nthen exhibited to the Court a certificate of the\nicate of the\nDeclaration of intention made by him before said bourt, on the 22nd day\nay of\nfollowary ADI. 1844\nand required as the first condition according to the first section of the Act of Congress entitled \"An Act to\nAn Act to\nestablish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the Acts heretofore passed on that subject.\" Ap-\nect.\" Ap-\nproved 14th of April, 1802, as follows:\n\"STATE OF CONNECTICUT,\n}\nss.\nCOUNTY OF HARTFORD,\nBe IT REMEMBERED, That Thomas Hunter of Enfield\nin said County of Hartford, but late of the United Kingdom of Great Britain\neat Britain\nand Ireland, appeared before the Superior Court for said County of Hartford, held at Hartford in\n[artford in\nsaid County, on the 22nd\nday of February\nin the year of our Lord\nour Lord\none thousand eight hundred and fortyfour,\n(the said Court being a Court of Record,\nof Record,\nhaving Common Law Jurisdiction, and a Clerk and seal,) and declared on oath in open Court, that it was\nhat it was\nbona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and\ninance and\nfidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to\nNictoria Sucen\nKing of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.\nd Ireland.\nIn testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said\nCourt,\nCourt,\nthis 22nd\nday of February\nin the year of our\near of our\nLord one thousand eight hundred and forty four\n2 Cu. Please,\nClerk.\"\nClerk.'\nI'S\nand it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court,\n-\nthat said Thomas Hunter\nleast, and\nhas resided within the United States five years at least, and in the State of Connecticut one year at least, and\nles of the\nthat during said five years he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the\nConstitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.\nAnd the said Thomas Hunter\nI support\nhaving declared on oath, that he would support\nill allegi-\nthe Constitution of the United States, and that he did absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegi-\nularly to\nance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to\nVictoria , ween\nIreland,\nKing of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,\nof whom he was before a subject. It was therefore considered by the Court, that\nThomas Hunter\nen of the\nbe, and he was accordingly admitted to become a citizen of the\nUnited States.\nhouncy Howard clerk."
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