Record of Naturalization

PETERSON, SVEND

Posted By: Cynthia McAfee (email)
Date: 8/7/2004 at 03:29:45

"Be It Remembered, That at the term of the Circuit Court, holden in and for said County, in the Town of Decorah therein, on the 12th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four was present the Honorable C. T. Granger, sole presiding Judge of the said Court, when the following proceedings were had, to wit:

SVEND PETERSON
a native of Denmark, and at present residing within said State, appeared in open Court and makes application to be admitted to become a CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that he had declared on oath, before A Clerk of (a Court of Record, having common law jurisdiction, and using a Seal, two years at least before his admission) that it was bona fide his intention to become a

CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES
and to renounce forever all allegiance to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty, whatsoever, and particularly to the King of Denmark, of whom he was heretofore a subject; and said applicant having declared on oath before this 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, whatsoever, and particularly to King of Denmark, of whom he was a subject.

The Court being satisfied that said applicant has resided within the United States for the term of five years next preceding his admission, without being at any time during the said five years out of the territory of the United States, and within this State one year at least; and it further appearing to the satisfaction of this Court that during that time he 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. Thereupon the Court admitted the said applicant to become a CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, and ordered all the proceedings aforesaid to be entered of Record, which was accordingly done by the Judge of this Court.

In Testimony Whereof, I, M. W. Harden, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, at my office in the Town of Decorah, in said County, this, the 12th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

N. H. Nelson, Deputy M. W. Harden, Clerk District Court
State of Iowa
Winneshiek County

I, S. J. Moore, Clerk of the District Court in and for the County of Winneshiek, certify the above to be a true Transcript of the Record of Naturalization of SVEND PETERSON, as the same now remains in my office.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at my office in Decorah, this 29th, of December, A. D. Nineteen Hundred and Twenty.

(signed) C. R. Selland, Deputy (signed) S. J. Moore, Clerk District Court