Naturalization Documents of John Harvey, Philadelphia
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)Close