Schuylkill PA Archives Other Court, Naturalization.....Chilton, Joseph June 7, 1858
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Source: Copy Of Original Naturalization Form
Written: June 7, 1858

Be it Remembered, That at a Court of Common Pleas, held at Pottsville,in and 
for the county of Schuylkill in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the 
United States of America, on the seventh day of June in the year of our Lord 
one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight Joseph Chilton a native of South 
Wales exhibited his petition, praying to become A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED 
STATES, and it appearing to the said Court, that he had declared on oath 
before the same court on the second day of June A.D., 1856, 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 
and Sovereignty whatsoever, and particularly to Victoria Queen of Great 
Britain and Ireland of whom he was at that time a subject, and the said Joseph 
Chilton having on the solemn oath declared and also made proof thereof by 
competent testimony of Evan Thomas a citizen of the United States, that he 
resided one year and upwards within the state of Pennsylvania, and within the 
United States of America, upwards of five years immediately preceding his 
application; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that during 
said time he had behaved himself 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; and having declared on his solemn 
oath 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 and Potentate, State and 
Sovereignty whatsoever, and particularly to Victoria Queen of Great Britain 
and Ireland of whom he was before a subject.  And thereupon the Court admitted 
the said Joseph Chilton to become a citizen of the United States.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the seal of said 
Court, at Pottsville, this seventh day of June in the year of our Lord, one 
thousand eight hundred and fifty eight and of the Sovereignty and Independence 
of the United States of America, eighty-second
David H Shoenen Prothonotary

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