Here is Joachim Opdenweyer's naturalization document Orleans Parish Louisiana Source Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library Submitted by Bertrand Macpherson July 2001 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** From 1st Judicial District Court, Orleans Parish, Minute Book 1845-1846, pages 303, 304, Jan. 14, 1846 "This day personally comes and appears in open Court Joachim Opdenweyer, an alien, and made application to be admitted a citizen of the United States. Thereupon the said Joachim Opdenweyer exhibited to the Court a certified copy of a Declaration (of Intent) made by him in the St. Louis Criminal Court in order to become a citizen of the United States on the 24th day of November in the year of Our Lord 1843, of which the following is a copy: "In the St. Louis Criminal Court, November Term, Friday, 24th November, 1843, Joachim Opdenweyer, a native of Germany, age forty-one years, comes into Court, and being duly sworn upon his oath declares that it is bonafide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign power, prince, potentate and sovereignty whatsoever and [unreadable] to the King of Prussia of whom he is at present a subject. State of Missouri, county of St. Louis, signed, J. D. Johnston, clerk of the St. Louis Criminal Court, within and for the county of St. Louis the foregoing to be a true transcript of the Declaration of Joachim Opdenweyer to become a citizen of the United States as the same now remains of record in my office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in the City of St. Louis this twenty-fourth day of November in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Three. J. D. Johnston, clerk. "And being proved to the satisfaction of the Court here on the oaths of Joseph Peters and Charles Busch, citizens of the United States, states that the said Joachim Opdenweyer has resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for upwards of five years immediately preceding the date of this application and within the state of Louisiana where the Court now holden for more than one year and its being proven that he has behaved and is a man of good moral character attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same the said Joachim Opdenweyer having declared on oath before the court here that he will support the Constitution of the United States and that he does forever renounce all allegiances and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever and particularly to the King of Prussia, the said Joachim Opdenweyer was therefore admitted to become a citizen of the United States and these proceedings here ordered to be recorded."