Iowa County WI Archives Declaration Of Intent.....Holmes, Thomas September 15, 1831
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Volume: Iowa Co, WI Naturalization Records, Vol.1, Pg.1-2
Form No:                1
Applicant:              Thomas Holmes
State:			Wisconsin
County:                 Iowa
Court Name:             Circuit Court Court At Mineral Point, WI
Age:                    49
occupation:             
Color:                  White
Complexion:             
Height:                 
Weight:                 
Hair:                   
Eyes:                   
Visible Marks:          
Place Of Birth          Staffordshire [Stafford County], Great Britain
Date Of Birth:          May 9, 1786
Current Residence:      Iowa County, Michigan Territory [later, State Of Wisconsin]
Emmigrated:             Port Of Liverpool, England
Vessel:                 
Foreign Residence:      England
Married Yes Or No:      
Spouse:                  
Spouse Place Of Birth:  
Spouse Age:             
Spouse Residence:       
Renouncement:           that it is bonafide my intention to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever and more particularly such allegiance and fidelity as I may in anymore owe to the said King of Great Britain, wither as a citizen or subject
Lawful Entry:           Philadelphia
Entry State:            Pennsylvania
Date Of Arrival:        September 15, 1831
Vessel:                 
Signed:                 Thomas Holmes
Date Of Signature:      September 7, 1838
Clerk:                  Robert Daugherty
Court:                  Circuit Court Court
Deputy Clerk:           

To Robert Daugherty Esq. Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the county 
of “Iowa and Territory of Michigan.
“I, Thomas Holmes, an alien born, free white person of the age of forty-nine 
years this day, do hereby in conformity with the first condition specified in 
the first section of the act of Congress entitled, and act to establish an 
uniform rule of Naturalization, and to appeal the acts heretofore passed on the 
subject, "approved the 12th day of April, 1802 declare and make known to the 
said circuit court, that my true and proper name is Thomas Holmes, that I was 
born in the County of Stafford in the Kingdom of Great Britain on the 9th day 
of May in the year of our Lord 1786. That I am forty-nine years of age, that I 
belonged to the British Nation, and owed allegiance to the King of Great 
Britain and Ireland;

“That I emigrated from the port of Liverpool in the Kingdom of Great Britain on 
the 25th day of July AD,1831 and landed at Philadelphia in the state of 
Pennsylvania, and in the United States of America, on the 15th day of September 
AD 1831. That I have ever since my first arrival remained within the limits and 
under the jurisdiction of the said United States and that it is bonafide my 
intention to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign 
prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever and more particularly such 
allegiance and fidelity as I may in anymore owe to the said King of Great 
Britain, wither as a citizen or subject, and to become a citizen of the United 
States and to locate myself for the present in the county of Iowa and Territory 
of Michigan where of I am now an inhabitant. That I do not now enjoy or ___ nor 
am I in anymore entitled to any order of distinction or title of nobility by 
virtue of the laws, customs or regulation of the said Kingdom of Great Britain 
or any other county. That I am sincerely attached to the ____contained in the 
constitution of the United States.
Decl Britain Sept. 7, 1838 EMS Clk - Sarah Holmes

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