Other Court: BEATTY, JAMES Naturalization Application Indiana County, Pa. Sept. 7, 1839 Petition Number 292 of James Beatty under an Act of Congress of 1828 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Don Beatty. DonBea@aol.com USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. ______________________________________________________________ To the Honorable Thomas White, Esq., and his Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Idiana County at September term. The Petition of JAMES BEATTY, a native of Ireland Respectfully sweareth that your petitioner was residing within the limits and under the jurisdiction of The United States between the 14th day of April, 1802 and the eighteenth day of June, 1812, and has continued to reside there., that he is desirous and willing to be come a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foriegn Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereinty whatsoever, and particularly to the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom he is now a subject He therefore prays your Honorable Court to admit him to become a citizen of The United States in conformity with the provisions agreeable to the directions of the Act of Congress of The United States in such cases made and provided James Beatty James Bothel and Levi Anthony, citizens of The United States,being duly sworn, say that they are well acquainted with the above named James Beatty, and that the said James Beatty has resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of The United States between the fourteenth day of April, 1802 and the eighteenth day of June, 1812, and has resided within the same , to the best of the deponents knowledge, and devise that he is a man of good moral character, attached to the principals of the Constitution of The United States and well disposed to the good order of the same. Sworn and subscribed in open Court. James Bothel and Levi Anthony I, James Beatty, the petitioner, do on my oath before the Honorable Court , declare that the contents of my petition are true, that I will support the Constitution of The United States, that I do hereby renounce and relinquish any Title or Order of Nobility to which I am, or may hereafter may be entitled, and that I do absolutely and entirely renounce and abolish all allegiance and fidelity to any foriegn Prince, Potentate, State, or sovereignty whatever, and partricularly to the Quenn of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom I was heretofore a subject James Beatty Sworn and subscribed in open Court