Naturalization: Nicholas Marmion

Nicholas Marmion, a native of Ireland, this day applied to the Court to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States whereupon the said Marmion exhibited a certificate of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Law of this county showing that he arrived in the United States more than five years previous to the date hereof, which certificate is as follows:

In the Superior Court of Law for Jefferson County held on the 20th July 1830. Nicholas Marmion, an alien, who has lately arrived in the United States, and is desirous of being naturalized a citizen thereof, this day appeared in court, and in pursuance of the act of Congress made a report of himself, which report is in the following words, to wit:

I Nicholas Marmion, make the following report of myself to the Superior Court of Law for the County of Jefferson in the State of Virginia, that is to say: I report that I was born in the county of Down in Ireland on the 15th day August 1800, being now in the 30th year of my age; that I am a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, owing allegiance to that monarch and none other; that I migrated from Ireland to the United States in the year 1819; and that I intend to settle myself in the County of Jefferson in the State of Virginia one of the United States. Given under my hand this 20th day of July in the year 1830. Nicholas Marmion.

And the said Nicholas Marmion also exhibited a certificate of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Jefferson County that more than two years ago, he had declared on oath in the said Court his intention to become a citizen of the United States, which last mentioned certificate is in these words: “And the said Nicholas Marmion, this day declared on oath, that it is bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to George the Fourth King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.”

And it being proved to the satisfaction of the Court, by the testimony of John J. Hickey and Isaac Fouke citizens of the United States, who were examined as witnesses on oath that since the arrival of the said Nicholas Marmion and aforesaid, he has resided within the United States five years at least, and within this state one year at least 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 Nicholas Marmion 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 Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to Victoria I Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. And thereupon the said Nicholas Marmion is admitted a citizen of the said United States.