Cambria County PA Archives Photo Document.....Valentine Yahner Naturalization 
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	Transcribed from a photocopy of the original filed in the Registers Office,
Centre County Courthouse, Bellefonte, PA:
Pennsylvania,
Centre County, ss:
	To the Honorable Thomas Burnside, and his associate Judges of the Court of
Common Please, in and for said Centre county.
	The petition of Vallentin Yahner, a native of the Kingdom of Bavaria & District
of Speir and Canton Bergzaber, and now an inhabitant of Centre county, in the
State of Pennsylvania, respectfully represents:
	That he sailed from the port of Haver de Grace on third day of April 1831, and
arrived at the City of New York in the United States of America on the fifteenth
day of May ensuing that he was born (unreadable) Capsweyer and is now upwards of
twenty seven years of age and that he was born a subject of the Kingdom of
Bavaria and owes allegiance to Ludwick the 2nd, King of Bavaria, that he is now
settled in the said county of Centre, state of Pennsylvania, and that it is his
bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, after having
complied with the acts of Congress, in such case made and provided.
	Your petitioner therefore prays this honorable Court to permit, this his
declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States, to be filed
on record in the said Court, he the said Vallentin Yahner renouncing all
allegiance to any foreign prince and Potentate whatsoever particularly to
Ludwick 2d, King of Bavaria.
	And he will pray &c.
			Valentin Yahner
Sworn and subscribed in open Court this 30 day of.
			Jas. Gilliliand, Proth.

	Transcribed from photocopy of original filed in Prothonatary Office, Cambria
County Courthouse, Ebensburg, PA:
	October Term, 1841
	Petition of Valentine Yahner for Naturalization
	To the Honorable the Court of Common Please of Cambria County in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
	The petition of Valentine Yahner of Cambria County humbly sheweth that your
petitioner is a native of the Kingdom of Bavaria and was heretofore a subject of
Lewy, King of Bavaria 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, that is to say
on the thirtieth day of August A. D. 1832, at a court of Common Pleas held at
Bellefonte, Centre County, your petitioner declared his intention of becoming a
citizen of the United States in the manner required by law, as in and by
certificate hereunto annexed 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 prince, potentate and
sovereignty whatever and particularly to Lewy, King of Bavaria 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.
			Valentine Yahner (in German)
	I Valentine Yahner 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 allegiances 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 King of Bavaria whereof I was heretofore a subject.
			Valentine Yahner (in German)
	Sworn & subscribed  in Open Court this 4th day of October A.D. 1841.
			Wm. A. Smith, Prnty.
	We Richard J. Proudfoot & William Todd, citizens of the United States and
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do swear that the petitioner Valentine Yahner 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 Valentine Yahner resided in Cambria County for five years and
upwards, 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, & well disposed to the good order & happiness of the same.
			Rich. J. Proudfoot
			Wm. Todd
Sworn & Subscribed in Open Court this 4 day of October A. D. 1841.
			Wm. A. Smith, Prnty.


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