Declaration of Intent to Naturalize of William WRIGHT (1828); Chester County, PA

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[Filed 6 May 1828, Chester County, Pennsylvania.  Naturalization 4:136]

Report & Declaration of William WRIGHT of intention to become a Citizen.

I William WRIGHT an alien free white person, do hereby declare and report that I 
was born in the Parish of Saint Mary, in the County of Cambridge, in the Isle of 
Eli, in England, on the twenty seventh day of March in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred, and that I am now in the twenty ninth year of my age, 
that I am a member of the British nation, and owe allegiance to the King of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. That I emigrated from the City 
[words "of Liver Pool" crossed out] and port of Liver Pool in England, in the 
later part of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 
seventeen, and arrived in the City and port of New York in the United States of 
America on the fifth day of May in the same year.  That since my arrival in the 
United States of America, I have resided in the State of Pennsylvania 
altogether.  That ever since the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 
twenty one I have resided in the County of Chester in the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania and that it is my intention still to reside and settle in the 
County and State aforesaid.

I therefore request this my declaration and report to be filed of record in the 
office of the Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County in the 
State last aforesaid.

[signed] William WRIGHT

Chester County [illegible initials].  William WRIGHT above named appears in open 
Court and upon his solemn affirmation deposes that the allegations set forth in 
the above report and declaration are true, and that it is bona fide his 
intention to become a Citizen of the United States of America, and to renounce 
forever, all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince Potentate, State or 
Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to the King of the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland to whom he is at this time a Subject.

[signed] William WRIGHT

Affirmed and Subscribed in open Court this 6th day of May AD 1828.

[signed] Wm DARLINGTON, Prot.