Othcourt: Citizenship of Timothy Caufield, 1840: Fayette County

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Timothy Caufield became an American citizen in 1840. His citizenship paper
reads as follows: "Fayette County.  Be it remembered that at a Court of
Common Pleas held at Uniontown for the County of Fayette in the State of
Pennsylvania in the United States of America on the fifth day of October A.
D. 1840, Timothy Caufield, a native of Ireland, exhibited a petition
praying to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States and it
appearing to the Court that he had declared an oath before the same court
on the fourth day of December 1820 that it was bona fide his intention to
become a citizen of the United States and to renounce forever all
allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or
sovereignty whatever and particularly to the King of Great Britain and
Ireland of whom he was then a subject, and the said Timothy Caufield having
on his solemn oath declared and also made proof thereof by competent
testimony of Martin Hess and James Morris, citizens of the United States,
that he had resided one year and upwards in the state of Pennsylvania,
upwards of five years in the United States of America immediately preceding
his application, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that
during that time he had behaved as a man of good moral character attached
to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, well disposed
to the good order and happiness of the same, and having on his solemn oath
declared before the said Court that he would support the Constitution of
the United States and that he did absolutely and entirely renounce and
abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate,
state or sovereignty whatever and particularly to Victoria, Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland of whom he was before a subject.
        Thereupon the Court admitted the said Timothy Caufield to become a citizen of the United States.

  In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and
the seal of said Court at Uniontown the fifth day of October A. D. 1840.
Richard Beeson."