PETITION: WILLIAMS, John, North 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]

354
                    September Term 1845
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  Petition of     )   To the Honorable the Court of
John Williams     \   Common Pleas of Cambria County
     for          /   in the Commonwealth of Pennsylva-
Naturalization    )   nia, The petition of John Williams
                      of North Wales humbly Showeth,
That your petitioner is a native of Montgomeryshire, 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 for Cambria
Coty. 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 page 132
Volume 2 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 particularly to Victoria Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland whereof he was heretofore a subject.
Your petitioner therefore prays that he may be admitted
to become a Citizen of the United States of America.
                                        John Williams
I John Williams 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.

355
                    September Term 1845
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Sworn and subscribed in open    )       John Williams
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 petitioner John Williams has resided
within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the
United States of America five years, and within the
state of Pennsylvania, that is to say, he the said John
Williams resided in Cambria County, 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 character, 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.