Mr. Patrick Rogers to Consul West.
Williamsburg, Long Island, 275
Grand street,
March 15, 1867.
Sir: In your letter bearing date February 22,
1867, to my son John H. Rogers, now in Mountjoy prison, at or near
Dublin, you say that in order to avail himself of your services, it will
be necessary that he obtain legal proofs of his birth in the United
States.
As legal proofs of the birth and citizenship of John H. Rogers in the
United States, I have the honor to transmit herewith the following
documents, viz:
1. A duly exemplified copy of my certificate of naturalization in the
marine court of the city of New York.
2. A true copy of my original application to said court to become a
citizen of the United States, duly certified by the clerk of the court,
with the seal of the court attached.
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3. The affidavit of Mr. Patrick Bagan, setting forth the birth, baptism,
citizenship, and parentage of said John H. Rogers, and a certificate of
the clerk of the city and county of New York, thereto annexed.
4. My own affidavit setting forth my citizenship, the owning of real
estate, which I could not own unless a citizen, or had declared my
intention of becoming such; the birth and citizenship of, and the
exercise of the elective franchise by, my son John H. Rogers.
5. The affidavit of William I. Bunnell, an inspector of election in the
election held in the first district of the fifteenth ward of the city of
Brooklyn, November, 1866, setting forth the citizenship, registry of,
and exercise of the elective franchise by, John H. Rogers thereat.
6. The affidavit of John Pettinger to the same effect, together with a
certificate of the clerk of the county of Kings that the officer
administering the oaths was authorized to act.
7. A certificate from the clerk of the city of Brooklyn to the effect
that the names of said William I. Bunnell and George Pettinger appear as
inspectors of said election, and that the name of John H. Rogers is on
the poll-list as a voter.
I may be permitted to state that it is scarcely possible to make out a
clearer case of American citizenship, under like circumstances, than
that developed and proven in the enclosed papers. You will confer a
favor by sending to me your acknowledgment of their receipt by you, and
by making such demands for his release, of those in whose custody my son
is imprisoned, as the laws of this glorious republic and the honor of
our flag demand.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Hon. William B. West,
United States Consul at Dublin, Ireland,
No. 1.
State of New York,
City and County of New
York, ss:
Be it remembered, that on the eleventh day of April, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, Patrick Rogers,
at present of the city of New York, appeared in the marine court of
the city of New York, (the said court being a court of record,
having a common law jurisdiction and a clerk and seal,) and applied
to said court to be admitted to become a citizen of the United
States of America, pursuant to the directions of the act of Congress
of the United States of America, entitled “An act to establish a
uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore
passed on that subject;” and also to an act entitled “An act in
addition to an act entitled “An act to establish a uniform rule of
naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that
subject;” and also to an act entitled “An act supplementary to the
acts heretofore passed on the subject of a uniform rule of
naturalization,” passed 30th day of July, 1813; and to the act
relative to evidence in cases of naturalization, passed 22d March,
1816; and an act in further addition to an act to establish a
uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore
passed on that subject, passed May 26, 1824; and an act entitled “An
act to amend the acts concerning naturalization,” passed May 24,
1828; and the said Patrick Rogers having thereupon produced to the
court such evidence, made such declaration and renunciation, and
taken such oaths as are by said acts required:
Thereupon, it was ordered by the said court that the said Patrick
Rogers be admitted, and he was accordingly admitted by the court a
citizen of the United States of America.
In testimony whereof, the seal of the
said court is hereunto affixed this
eleventh day of April, in the sixty-third year of the
independence of the United States.
Per curiam:
JOHN BARBERIE, Clerk.
[Marine court of the city of New York, l.
s.]
No. 2.
Marine court of the city of New York.
State of New York,
City and County of New York, ss:
Patrick Bagan, being duly sworn, saith that he, this deponent, knows
and is well acquainted with Patrick Rogers, and that he, the said
Patrick Rogers, has resided within the United States five years at
least, and within the State of New York one year at least; and
further, 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.
Sworn in open court the 11th day of
April, 1839.
JOHN BARBERIE, Clerk.
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I, Patrick Rogers, do declare on oath, before the marine court of
the city of New York, that I will support the Constitution of
the United States; and that I do absolutely and entirely
renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign
prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever, and
particularly to the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, of whom I was before a subject.
his
PATRICK + ROGERS.
Mark.
Sworn in open court the 11th day of
April, 1839.
JOHN BARBERIE, Clerk.
I, Lawrence Clancy, clerk of the city of New York, do hereby
certify that the above is a true copy of the original on
file in said court, and that the said Patrick Rogers was
there. upon duly admitted á citizen of the United
States.
In witness whereof, I have
hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said
court this
15th day of March, 1867.
LAWRENCE CLANCY, Clerk
[Marine court of the city of New
York, l. s.]
No. 3.
United States of America,
State of New York, City and County of New York,
ss:
Patrick Bagan, being duly sworn, says that he resides at Locust
Grove, in the town of Newtown, county of Queens, and State of New
York, and that he well knows John H. Rogers, now imprisoned in
Mountjoy prison, at or near Dublin, Ireland; that deponent knows
said John H. Rogers from his birth, which took place at the city of
New York on the 15th day of March, 1839; and that deponent acted in
the capacity of godfather at the baptism of said John H. Rogers,
within a few days after his birth as aforesaid; that Patrick Rogers,
the father of said John H. Rogers, also well known to deponent, is
and has been for upwards of twenty-five years a duly naturalized
citizen of the United States, and for many years an owner of real
estate in the county of Kings, in said State, and a voter; and that
said John H. Rogers is, and since the 15th day of March, 1860, has
been, a native-born citizen of the United States, and has exercised
the elective franchise as such.
PATRICK BAGAN.
Sworn before me this 15th day of March, 1867.
HUGH G. CONNELL, Commissioner of
Deeds.
State of New York, City
and County of New York, ss:
I, William C, Connor, clerk of the city and county of New York, and
also clerk of the supreme court for the said city and county, being
a court of record, do hereby certify that Hugh G. Connell, before
whom the annexed deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the
same a commissioner of deeds of New York, dwelling in said city and
county, duly appointed and sworn, and authorized to administer oaths
to be used in any courts in said State and for general purposes, and
that his signature thereto is genuine, as I verily believe.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the said city and county
the 15th day of
March, 1867.
[New York,
l. s.]
WM. C. CONNOR, Clerk.
No. 4.
United States of America,
State of New York, County of Kings, City of
Brooklyn, ss:
Patrick Rogers, being duly sworn, says that he resides at No. 275
Grand street, in said city, county, and State; and that he is, and
for twenty-seven years has been, a duly naturalized citizen of the
United States, and an owner of real estate in said county for
fifteen years past; and that he is the father of John H. Rogers, now
imprisoned in Mountjoy prison, at or near Dublin, Ireland; and that
said John H. Rogers was born in the city of New York on the
fifteenth day of March, 1839, and on the fifteenth day of March,
1860, became, and now is, a citizen of the United
States of America; and that at every election in said city,
since the said fifteenth day of March, 1860, the said John H. Rogers
exercised the elective franchise by voting thereat, as became his
duty as a good and faithful citizen.
PATRICK ROGERS.
Sworn before me this 13th day of March, 1867.
JOHN M. FLYNN Commissioner of Deeds, Kings
County, City of Brooklyn.
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No. 5.
United States of America,
State of New York, County of Kings, City of
Brooklyn, ss:
William I. Bunnell, being duly sworn, says that he resides at No. 241
South First street, in the fifteenth ward of the city of Brooklyn,
and that he knows John H. Rogers, now, imprisoned in Mountjoy
prison, at or near Dublin, Ireland; and that said John H. Rogers
was, and is, a citizen of the United States of America, is duly
registered as a voter according to law, and voted at the election
held in said city in November, A.D.1866; and that at said election
deponent was a citizen and voted and acted in the capacity of
inspector, having been thereto duly appointed to receive votes
deposited by citizens in the exercise of the elective franchise, and
personally received the vote of said John H. Rogers thereat.
WILLIAM I. BUNNELL.
Sworn before me this 14th day of March, 1867.
JOHN M. FLYNN, Commissioner of Deeds,
Kings County, City of Brooklyn.
No. 6.
United States of America,
State of New York, County of Kings, City of
Brooklyn, ss:
George W. Pettinger, being duly sworn, says that he resides at 276
South Second street in the fifteenth ward of the city of Brooklyn,
and that he knows John H. Rogers, now imprisoned in Mountjoy prison,
at or near Dublin, Ireland; and that said John H. Rogers was, and
is, a citizen of the United States of America, is duly registered as
a voter according to law, and voted at the election held in said
city November, A. D. 1866; and that at said election deponent was an
inspector of election, duly appointed to receive votes deposited by
citizens in the exercise of the elective franchise.
Sworn before me this 14th day of
March, 1867.
JOHN M. FLYNN,>Commissioner of Deeds, Kings County, City of
Brooklyn.
State of New York, County of Kings,
ss:
I, John J. White, clerk of the county of Kings, and clerk of the
supreme court of the State of New York in and for the said
county, (said court being a court of record,) do hereby certify
that John M. Flynn, before whom the annexed deposition was
taken, was, at the time of taking the same, a commissioner of
deeds in and for the city of Brooklyn, in said county, dwelling
in said city, commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to take
the same; and further, that I am well acquainted with the
handwriting of such commissioner, and verily believe the
signature to said deposition is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county and
court, this
15th day of March, 1867.
[seal.]
JOHN J. WHITE, Clerk.
No. 7.
City Clerk’s Office, Brooklyn,
March 15, 1867.
I, Henry McCloskey, clerk of the city of Brooklyn, do hereby certify
that the names of William I. Bunnell and George W. Pettinger appear
on the poll-list of the first district of the fifteenth ward of the
city of Brooklyn, now on file in this office, as inspectors of the
election held November 6, 1866.
And I further certify that on the said poll-list the name of John H.
Rogers, residing at 275 Grand street, Brooklyn, appears as a voter
as having voted the State, assembly, judiciary, city, and ward
ballots, respectively, at said election.
[seal.]
HENRY McCLOSKEY, City
Clerk.
