Other Court Documents: JOSEPH  BEATTY    Petition for Naturalization  Indiana County, Pa.

Declaration Number  377, Filed  June  23, 1846
			
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To the Honorable, the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of
Indiana
The Petition of Joseph Beatty, a native of Ireland, now of Armstrong Township,
Indiana County
Respectfully showeth that your Petitioner arrived in the United States of America 
to wit: at the Port of Philadelphia on the ---- day of June, 1835, and that in
pursuance of an Act of Congress  entitled  " An Act to Establish a Uniform Rule
of Naturalization " and to repeal the Acts heretofore passed on that subject. made
a declaration of his intention  to become and to report  the registry of his nativity,
age, allegience , immigration , and intended place of residence  in the United
States conformably to the said Act  before the Court of Common Pleas of the
County of Indiana. On the --- day of March 1844 a certificate whereof is hereunto  
annexed,  and that he has resided within  the limits and under the jurisdiction of
the United States  for five years last past, and one year last past within  the State
of Pennsylvania, that he has never borne any hereditary  title, nor have been of
any  order of the Nobility  in the Kingdom whence he came, or elsewhere. He
therefore knows he may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States.
And he will pray.     Joseph Beatty
	State of Pennsylvania, County of Indiana, S.S.
	William Rankin and James Bothel, citizens of the United States, being duly sworn 
	according to law, in open Court, Common Pleas, in and for said County, do
	depose and say that they are acquainted with Joseph Beatty,the foregoing
	petitioner, that the said Joseph Beatty has resided  within the limits of the United
	States for more than five years last past , and within the State of Pennsylvania for 
	more than one year last past, and during the time, he has behaved  as a man of
	good moral character , attached to the Principles of the Constitution of the United
	States , and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.
	Sworn and subscribed in open Court  this 22nd day of June, 1845
					William Rankin and James Bothel, Jr.  
	State of Pennsylvania, Indiana County. S.S. 
	The foregoing petitioner, being duly sworn according to law, in open Court,
sayeth  	that the facts set forth in his petition  are true, that he will support the
Constitution 	of the United States, and that he hath absolutely and entirely renounce and
abjourn  	all allegience and fidelity  to any foriegn Prince, Potentate, State, or
sovereignty 	whatsoever, and particularly to Queen Victoria ,Queen of Great Britain
and 	Ireland whereof he had  heretofore  been a subject.
	Sworn and subscribed in open Court of Common Pleas  in said County this --- day
	of June,1846		H,N, Taylor, Register			Joseph Beatty