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    "ocrText": "80\nSeptember Term 1844\nIt\nColober\nBE IT REMEMBERED9 That on the\nday of\nin the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and\nforty four\nWilliam H. Missenger\nof Hastford\nin said County\nof Hartford, appeared in open Court, (the said Court being a Court of Record, having common Law juris-\ndiction, and a Clerk and seal,) and applied to be admitted and to become a citizen of the United States. And\nthe said William H. Messenger\nthon oxhibited to the Court a cortificate ofthe\nDeclaration of intention mado by him boforo at the time of his said application, and of\nhis admission as a citisen of the limited States as herinafter specified\nand required as the first condition according to the first section of the Act of Congross entitled \" An Act to\nostablish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the Acts heretofore passed on that subjoct.\"\nAp-\nproved 14th of April, 1809, as follows:\n\"STATE OF CONNECTICUT\nCOUNTY OF HARTFORD,\n-SS.\nBe IT REMEMBERED, That\nin said County of Hartford, but late of the United Kingdom of Great Britain\nand Ireland, appeared before the\nCourt for said County of Hartford, held at Hartford in\nsaid County, on the\nday of\nin the year of our Lord\none thousand eight hundrod and\n(the said Court being a Court of Record,\nhaving Common Law Jurisdiction and a Clork and soal) and declared on oath in open Court, that it was\nbona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and\nfidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to\nVictoria Queen\nKing of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.\nIn tostimony whoreof, I have horcunte set my hand and affixod the soal of said to whom -Court,\nthis he has hitherto been day of asubject and further in the year of our\nLord one thousand eight hundrod and declared on oath, and proved to the\nsatisfaction of said Count that he has reselved in Clerk.\"\nthe united states. three years next mending\nUDALD\nfor there years court last part citisen has been bona fide his\nhis arriving at the age In Twenty one years and that\nand it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, a of the united States\nthat said William K. clessenger\nhas resided within the United States five years at least, and in the State of Connecticut one year it least, and\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 William H. Messenger\nhaving declared on oath, that he would support\nthe Constitution of the United States, and that he did absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegi-\nance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to\nVictoria Queen\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 the said\nUnited States.\nWilliam H. Messenger be, and he was accordingly admitted to become a citizen of the\nchauncey Howard. clerk."
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