EMIGRATION RECORDS FOR DANIEL KELLY

           

            Sullivan County Courthouse, Laporte, PA

            Transcribed by Ken Beirne
July 2007

 

 

Pennsylvania

Sullivan County [SS.]

 

            Be it remembered that at a Court of Common Pleas held at Cherry in and for said County of Sullivan the nineteenth day of February A.D. 1850 personally appeared Daniel Kelley (sic) who before said Court on his solemn oath said that he is about twenty one years and that he is a native of Ireland and declares and represents that he came to the United States in the year A.D. 1846 that it then was and now is his Bona fide intention to become a Citizen of the United States and to renounce all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince Potentate or sovereign whatsoever and particularly the Queen of England

 

Sworn and subscribed before me this 19th day of February 1850

            Alfred Bennett Prothy

 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cherry the 20th day of February A.D. 1850

 

            Alfred Bennett Prothonotary

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To the Hon. the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan County

 

            Daniel Kelley (sic) a native of Ireland on his oath declares and represents that he came to the United States in the year AD 1846 that it was at that time and now is his bona fida (sic) intention to become a Citizen of the United States and to renounce all allegiance whatsoever and particularly to the Queen of England and that he is aged about twenty one years        

 

Sworn and subscribed this 19th day of July 1850                                 his

Alfred Bennett Prothy                                                                       Daniel Kelley (sic)

                                                                                                                    Mark

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To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the Co. of Sullivan.

 

The Petition of Daniel Kelly a native of Ireland respectfully sheweth, that your petitioner arrived in the United States to wit : at _______________ in the month of February A.D. 1850 ** , 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 the Court of Common Please (sic) of Sullivan County on the 27th day of February A.D. 1855, a certificate of which is hereunto annexed : and that he has resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for ____ years last past, and for one year last past within the State of Pennsylvania : He therefore prays he may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States.

** Editor's Note: This entry is erroneous. The clerk filling out the citizenship papers, it appears, inadvertently put down the date on which Daniel had first stated his intent to become a citizen (Feburary 1850), instead of his date of first entry (1846).

 

                                                                                                                    his

                                                                                                            Daniel Kelly

                                                                                                                    Mark

 

James Kelly--a citizen of the United States, being duly sworn according to law says--That he is well acquainted with the above named petitioner, and that, to his knowledge and belief, he has resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States, for five years last past, and for one year last past within the state of Pennsylvania : that during the same period he 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.

 

                                                                                                                    his

                                                                                                            James Kelly

                                                                                                                    Mark

 

 SWORN IN OPEN COURT,

This 27th day of February A.D. 1855

(signature illegible) Prothy

 

I, James Kelly, the above named petitioner, do on my solemn oath declare, that the contents of my petition are true; and I will support the Constitution of the United States; that I do hereby renounce and relinquish any title or order of nobility to which I am or may hereafter be entitled; and that I do absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom I was before a subject.

 

                                                                                                                    his

                                                                                                            Daniel Kelly

                                                                                                                    Mark                 

SWORN IN OPEN COURT,

This 27 day of February A.D. 1855

(signature illegible) Prothy