PETITION: BAXTER, Samuel, Wales, 1845, Cambria County, PA

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[Source: LDS FHL Film # 1316238, Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Cambria County),
  Naturalization dockets v.1-2 1835-1848. Item 4, Naturalization Docket No. 2
Transcribed: by Stephen D. Williams from the handwritten text]

352
                    September Term 1845
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  Petition of     )   To the Honorable the Court of
Samuel Baxter     \   Common Pleas of Cambria County
     for          /   in the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
Naturalization    )   vania, The petition of Samuel
                      Baxter of Wales, humbly Showeth
that your petitioner is a native of North Wales
and was heretofore a subject of Victoria Queen of
Great Britain & Ireland, and that he has resided
within the limits and under the jurisdiction of
the United States of America for five years, and
within the State of Pennsylvania one year, and that
two years prior to this application, that is to say on
the 5th day of July 1843 at a Court of Common Pleas
in and for Cambria Coy., your petitioner declared his
intention of becoming a Citizen of the United States
in the manner required by law, as in and by Natura-
lization Docket Vol. 2 page 134 appears, that he will
support the Constitution of the United States, and
that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and
forever abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign
princes, potentate and sovereignty whatever, and partic-
ularly to Victoria Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
whereof he was heretofore a subject.  Your petitioner there-
fore prays that he may be admitted to become a
Citizen of the United States of America.   Samuel Baxter

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I Saml. Baxter do swear, that the facts set forth in this
my petition are true that I will support the Constitution
of the United States, and that I do absolutely and entirely
renounce and abjure forever all allegiance and fidelity to
any foreign prince, potentate and sovereignty whatever, and
particularly do absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure
forever all allegiance and fidelity to Victoria Queen of
Great Britain and Ireland whereof I was heretofore a
subject.
Sworn and subscribed in open    )       Samuel Baxter
Court this 30 day of Sept, 1845 )
                    Wm A. Smith  Proty.

                              We Thomas M. Jones
& Thomas Todd citizens of the United States and
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do swear that the pe-
titioner Saml. Baxter has resided within the limits and
under the jurisdiction of the United States of America
five years, and within the state of Pennsylvania one year,
that is to say, he the said Samuel Baxter resided in
Cambria County in the State of Pennsylvania, all which
places are within and under the jurisdiction of the United
States, and that during his residence within the United
States, he has behaved as a man of good moral char-
acter, attached to the Constitution of the United States
and well disposed to the good order and happiness of
the same.
Sworn and subscribed in open       )    Thomas M. Jones
Court, this 30th day of Sept. 1845 )    Thomas Todd
                    Wm A. Smith  Proty.