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152 1855 Edward Nelligen naturalization Petition and Oath

[Declaration] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Massachusetts District, ss. To the Honorable the Judge of the District Court of the United States, within and for the District of Massachusetts. RESPECTFULLY represents Edward Nelligan of Weymouth in said District Laborer an alien, and a free white person, that he was born in the County of Kerry Ireland on or about the fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty four and is now about twenty one years of age; that he arrived at Boston in the United States of America, on or about the Twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty being then a minor under the age of eighteen years; that it then was, and still is, his bona fide intention to reside in and become a citizen of the Unite States of America, and to renounce all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, State, Potentate, and Sovereignty whatsoever - more especially to Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, whose subject he has heretofore been: And the said Edward Nelligan further represents, that he has ever since continued to reside within the jurisdiction of said United States, to wit, at said Weymouth landing that he has never borne any hereditary title, or been of any of the orders of nobility; that he is ready to renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to Victoria, Queen, as aforesaid whose subject he has heretofore been; that he is attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States of America, and well disposed towards the good order and happiness of the same. Wherefore your petitioner prays, that he may be admitted to become a Citizen of the said United States of America, according to the forms of the states in such case made and provided. Edward his X mark Nelligan
[Deposition of Witnesses] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Massachusetts District, to wit: CITY OF BOSTON, 18. We William McGinney and Owen Connor of Weymouth and both citizens of said United States, severally depose and say, that we have known Edward Nelligan the foregoing Petitioner, for five years last past, during which time he has resided in said Weymouth and that he has resided within the State of Massachusetts one year at least; and has conducted himself and behaved as a man of good moral character attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed towards the good order and happiness of the same. William McGinney and Owen his X mark Connor
[Oath] I Edward Nelligan do solemnly swear, that I do absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty whatsoever - particularly to Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland whose subject I have heretofore been; and that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America - So help me God. Edward his X mark Nelligan
[Admission] United States of America. District of Massachusetts, to wit: At a District Court of the United States, Specially holden at said Boston, on the second day of November in the year of our Lord 1855, the said Edward Nelligan was admitted to become a citizen of the United States of America; and the Court ordered, that record thereof be made accordingly. ATTEST, Clerk.


Date2 Nov 1855
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