Naturalization: Richard Doran

Richard D. Doran, merchant, a native of Ireland, this day applied to the Court to be admitted a citizen of the United States, and the Court being satisfied that more than two years previous to this date he had declared an oath in this Court his intention to become a citizen of the United States; and it being found to the satisfaction of the Court by the testimony of P. C. McCabe and Jas. Duncanson, citizens of the said United States, who were examined as witnesses on oath, that since the arrival of the said Richard D. Doran in the United States he has resided within the United States five years, and within this State one year and during that time has behaved 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, he the said Richard D. Doran, declared on oath in open Court, that he will support the constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Power, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever and particularly to Victoria I. Queen of Great Britain & Ireland. And thereupon the said Richard D. Doran is admitted a citizen of the said United States.