REFUGIO COUNTY, TX - Court Records - Thomas McGuill, Petition for Naturalization, 1861

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Thomas McGuill
Petition for Naturalization
July 1, 1861

Source:  Microfilm, Corpus Christi, Texas, Public Library


[Note: I transcribed this l from poor quality microfilm.  The copies were very light in 
places and difficult to read.  I have copied the record just as it was written, including punctuation, spelling and 
capitalization. If you know of any corrections that need to be made, please contact me.]
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Confederate States of America

The State of Texas}             In County Court
County of Refugio}             July Term A.D. 1861

                             Be it remembered that on the first day of July A.D. 1861, personally appeared in open Court 
Thomas McGuill, an alien and a subject of Queen Victoria Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and make application to be 
admitted as a citizen of the Confederated States of America in conformity to the laws of the Confederated States and of the 
State of Texas and declares under oath that it has been his bona fide intention to become a citizen of the Confederated States 
and that he has been residing in the State of Texas for seven years just past and proves by the evidence of Patrick Shelly and 
Joseph C. Fagan both citizens of the Confederated States, who appeared in open Court and testified that the said Thomas 
McGuill has continuously resided within the limits of the State of Texas and within the now jurisdiction of the Confederated 
States of America for more than five years, that during the whole time, he has behaved himself as a man of good moral 
character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the State of Texas and well disposed to the good order and happiness 
of the Same and of the Confederated States.  And it further appearing to the Court that the said Thomas McGuill has not born 
a hereditary title or been of any of the orders of nobility in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.  And it appearing to the 
Satisfaction of the Court that the said Thomas McGuill having made oath in open Court that he will support the Constitution of 
the Confederated States of America and of the State of Texas and that he shall (??) absolutely  and entirely renounce and 
abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince - Potentate, State or Sovereignty and particularly those of Great Britain 
and Ireland and that he will true allegiance bear to the Confederated States of America.

                                                                                Thomas McGuill

Sworn to and subscribed before me in open Court the first day of July A.D. 1861.

                                                                                L.M. Rogers, J.R.C.