PETITION: WILLIAMS, William I., Wales, 1847, 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]

570
                    October Term 1847
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  Petition of           )   To the Honorable the Court of
William I. Williams     \   Common Pleas of Cambria County in
       for              /   the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, The
Naturalization          )   petition William I. Williams of Cambria
                            township, Cambria County, Humbly Showeth
That your petitioner is a native of 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 30th day of September 1845 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 the Declaration heretofore attached fully appears
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.
                                        William I. Williams
I Williams I. 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.
Sworn and subscribed in open  )         William I. Williams
Court this 5 Oct. 1847        )
                    I. McDonald  Pa.[?]

571
                    October Term 1847
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  We John Evan smithy? & John E. Roberts citizens of the United
States and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do swear that the
petitioner William I. Williams 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 William I. Williams resided in Cambria
County upon and of one year, which place is 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  )         John E. Roberts
Court this 5th Oct. A.D. 1847 )         John Evan smithy?
                    I. McDonald  Pa.[?]