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.