PHILADELPHIA COUNTY, sct.
BE IT REMEMBERED, THAT on this Second day of October
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty two
John Harvey
a free white person of the age of twenty-one years
and upwards, being an Alien, who has arrived in the
United States after the passing of the Act of
Congress; entitled, " An Act to establish an uniform
rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the acts
heretofore passed on that subject," passed on the 14th
day of April, A.D. 1802, and who is desirous to be
naturalized, did report himself to the Prothonotary of
the Court of Commom Pleas for the City and County of
Philadelphia, in manner following, that is to say:-
That he, the said John Harvey
was born in the County of Tyrone
in Ireland
or about the twenty fourth day of December in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven and is
now about the age of Twenty five years, that he was
born a member of the
British Nation
and owed allegiance to the King of Great Britain & Ireland
to whom he was heretofore a Subject
that he migrated from Londonderry
to the United States, and arrived at the port of New York
on or about the day of A.D. 1824
and that it is his intention to settle in Philadelphia
Recorded the day and year first ) X
above written, by me ) his
John Harvey
Prothonotary mark
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the Second day of October
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty two personally appeared John Harvey before me,
the Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, for the
City and County of Philadelphia, who upon his solemn
oath did depose and say, that he is a native of Ireland
now residing in the City of Philadelphia, aged Twenty five
years or thereabouts and that it is 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 or Sovereignty whatever,
and particularly to the King of G.B. [Great Britain?] and
Ireland of whom he is now a subject.
his
2nd Oct. 1832 X
mark
To the Honourable the
The Petition of John Harvey
a Native of Ireland
heretofore owing allegiance to the King of Great
Britain and Ireland
Respectfully showeth,
THAT your petitioner is a free white person,
and an alien, and is desirous of becoming a citizen
of the United States of America, and that, in pursuance
of an Act of Congress, entitled "An act to establish an
uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts
heretofore passed on that subject," made a declaration
of his intention to become a citizen, and a report and
registry of his nativity, age, allegiance, emigration,
arrival, and intended place of settlement in the United
States, conformably to the said act before this
Honourable Court a certificate whereof is hereunto annexed,
that he has resided within the United States three years
next preceding his arriving at the age of twenty-one years,
and has continued to reside therein until the time of
making the present application; that your petitioner has,
including the aforesaid three years of his minority,
resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of
the United States five years and upwards; that your
petitioner has been, during all the above mentioned time,
attached to the principles of the Constitution of the
United States, and well disposed to the good order and
happiness of the same, and that it has been bona fide
his intention to become a citizen thereof.
Your petitioner therefore prays your Honourable Court,
that upon making proof all matters and things set forth
and alledged in the foregoing petition, and upon complying
with the conditions, stipulation, and restrictions, enacted
in an act of the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, passed the
twenty-sixth day of May, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and
twenty-four, he may be admitted to become a citizen of the
United States, and permited to enjoy the rights, privileges,
and immunities appertaining thereto, and consequent thereupon,
and your petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray.
his
Philadelphia, the of October ) John X Harvey
A.D. 1832 ) mark
ATTEST,
Charles D. Lyhand - a citizen of the United States,
being duly sworn doth depose and say, that the within
named John Harvey the petitioner now before the Court,
with whom the deponent is well acquainted, hath resided
within the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the
United States three years next preceding his arriving at
the age of twenty-one years, and has continued to reside
therein until the time of filing of the preceding petition;
that, including the three years of the minority of the
said John Harvey he, the said John Harvey has resided
within the United States five years and upwards; that during
the last three years thereof, it has been, to the best of
this deponent's knowledge and belief, the bona fide
intention of the said John Harvey - to become a citizen
of the United States, and during all which time the
petitioner John Harvey has 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.
Sworn in open Court, this 3rd )
day of October 1832 ) Charles D. Lyhand
F.A. Raybold
Prothonotary.
John Harvey the petitioner, now before
the Court, being duly sworn _ says,
that the several facts set forth in the
within petition, and whereunto he hath
affixed his name, are, to the best of
your petitioner's knowledge and belief,
just and true, and that I will support
the Constitution of the United States,
and that I do hereby renounce and
relinquish any title or order of nobility
to which I am, or hereafter may be entitled,
and that I do absolutely and entirely
renounce and abjure all allegiance and
fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate,
state, and sovereignty whatsoever, and
particularly to the King of Great Britain
& Ireland of whom I was before a subject
his
Sworn in open Court, this 3rd ) John X Harvey
day of October 1832 ) mark
F.A. Raybold
(Transcribed by Stephen Perrott)
