NATURALIZATION: Thomas MICHAELS, 1856, Cambria County, PA 

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Transcribed from a photocopy of the original Naturalizations Record, D-5, 
page 167, filed in Prothonotary's Office, Cambria County Courthouse, Ebensburg, 
PA
            The petition of Thomas W. Mickael for Naturalization:

     To the Honorable, the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria 
County.  The Petition of Thomas W. Michiel, a native of Whales respectfully 
Showeth that your petitioner arrived in the United States of America, to wit at 
the port of Philadelphia on the 16 day of May A.D. 1851, [and that in] pursuance 
of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to establish a uniform rule of 
Naturalization and to repeal the act theretofore passed on that subject" made a 
declaration of his intention to become a citizen, and a report and registry of 
his nativity, age, allegiance, emigration, arrival and intended place of 
settlement in the United States conform duly to the said Act before the Court 
for the [County of Allegheny] on the 27 day of May A.D. 1854, a certificate 
whereof is hereunto attached, and that he has resided within the limits and 
under the jurisdiction of the United States for five years last past and for one 
year last past within the State of Pennsylvania, that he has never born any 
hereditary title or been of any the orders of nobility in the Kingdom whence he 
came, or elsewhere.  He therefore prays that he may be admitted to, become a 
citizen of the United [States].  And he will ever pray, etc.
     John James and Emanuel James, Citizens of the United States, being duly 
sworn according to law, say, that are well acquainted with the above named 
petitioner, and that, to their certain knowledge and belief, that he has resided 
within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for five years 
last past, within the State of Pennsylvania, that during the same period he has 
behaved as 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.                    His X mark-John James
                                    His X mark- Emanuel James
Sworn and subscribed in open Court Sept. 1, 1856
                                    H. I. Roberts, Prothonatary
     I, Thomas W. Michael the above named petitioner do on my solemn oath 
declare that the contents of my petition are true and that I will support the 
constitution of the United States, and that I do hereby renounce and relinquish 
any title or order of nobility to which I am or hereafter may be entitled; and 
that I do absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and 
fidelity to any foreign Prince Potentate state and sovereignty whatever and 
particularly to Queen Victoria Queen of Island Britain of whom he was heretofore 
a subject.