State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County, SS.
Thomas Moses
An Alien
To become
citizen
August Term, 1850
August 19. 1850, personally
appeared Thomas Moses, who being duly sworn DOTH DECLARE THAT HE IS A NATIVE OF
England, aged about forty-four years, now residing said county, that he arrived
in the United States in the year A.D. 1849 in May, 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 every foreign Prince, Potentate, State and
Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom
or Great Britain and Ireland, of whom he is a subject (Certificate same day).
And now to wit, on the 17th
day of August, A.D. 1857, the aforesaid Thomas Moses come into Court and prayed
the Court to be permitted to become a citizen of the United States. And on making proof to the satisfaction of
the Court that he had resided in the United States for five years and upwards,
and for one year last past in the State of Pennsylvania, and behaved as a man
of good moral character, apparently attached to the Constitution of the United
States and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same; And on
taking and subscribing to the oath of renunciation and allegiance, prescribed
by law, the Court did thereupon admit him the said Thomas Moses to become a
citizen of the United States agreeably to the Act of Congress in such case made
and provided. (Cert. made same day)
I, H.P. Manzer, Prothonotary
of the Court of Common Pleas of Susquehanna County do hereby certify that the
foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of the record in Re: Admission of
Thomas Moses, an alien, to become a citizen of the United States, so full and
entire as the same remains of the record in the said Court.
SEAL of Court of Common Pleas of
Susquehanna County, Pa.
(Signature) H. F. Manzer
PROTHONOTARY
Ed. Note: According to law all minor children were
also admitted to citizenship.