NATURALIZATION: Alexander Mitchell, Ireland, 1852, Cambria County, PA

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Transcribed from Photo Copy of Naturalization Records
July Term 1852
 
To The honorable the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria County, in the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The petition of Alexander Mitchell
 
That your petitioner is a native of Ireland and was theretofore a 
subject of the Queen of Great Britain and 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 the application, that is to say, 
on the Ninth day of January A. D. 1850 at a Court of Common Pleas of 
Cambria County your petitioner declared his intention of becoming a 
citizen of the United States in the manner required by law, as in and 
by Naturalization Docket Vol. 3 Page 112--appears that he will support 
the Constitution of the United States and that he doth absolutely and 
entirely renounce and forever abjure all allegiances and fidelity to 
any foreign Prince, Potentate and Sovereignty whatever and particularly 
to the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland ,whereof he was heretofore a 
subject, your petitioner therefore prays that he may be admitted to be 
come a citizen of the United States of America.
                                                                                                   
                                              Alexander Mitchell
 
I, Alexander Mitchell, do swear that the facts set forth in this my 
petition are true and 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 the Queen of 
Great Britain and Ireland whereof I was subject.                                                                                
                                                                                                            
                                             X  his mark
Sworn and subscribed in open court           John Cunningham
this 6th day of July A. D. 1853              Matthew Mitchell
R. L. Johnston, Proty.
 
We, John Cunningham and Matthew Mitchell, citizens of the United States 
and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do swear that the petitioner, 
Alexander Mitchell, has resided within the limits and under the State 
of Pennsylvania one year, that is to say, he the said Alexander 
Mitchell  has resided five years and upwards in the State of 
Pennsylvania which place is within and under the Constitution of the 
United States, And that during his residence within the United State he 
has behaved as a man of good moral, character attached to the 
Constitution of the United States and will disposed to the good order 
and happiness of the same
 
Sworn and subscribed in open court           X  his mark
this 6th day of July A. D. 1852              John Cunningham
R. L. Johnston, Proty.                       Matthew Mitchell