{"id":7414,"date":"2025-10-02T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welshofharpersferry.com\/?post_type=evidence&amp;p=7414"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:08:23","slug":"naturalization-intent-john-colgan","status":"publish","type":"evidence","link":"https:\/\/migration.welshofharpersferry.com\/?evidence=naturalization-intent-john-colgan","title":{"rendered":"Naturalization Intent: John Colgan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the County Court<br>May Term 1855<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">County of Jefferson to wit:<br>At a court held for the said county on the 22nd day of May, 1855, John Colgan, an alien, who has lately arrived in the United States, and is ___ of being naturalized a citizen thereof, this day came into Court and made a report in these words and figures: I, John Colgan, make the following report of myself to the County Court of Jefferson County, in the State of Virginia, that is to say I report that I was born in King&#8217;s County, Ireland in the year 1825, being now in the 30th year of my age, that I am a subject of Victoria I Queen of Great Britain &amp; Ireland, owing allegiance to that Monarch, and no other. That I migrated from Ireland to the United States in the year 1854, and that I intend to settle in Jefferson County in the State of Virginia, one of the United States. Given under my hand this 22nd day of May, 1855.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and the said John Colgan on the same day, declared on oath in open Court that it bonafide 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, &amp; particularly to Victoria I Queen of Great Britain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[50],"evidence_category":[2746],"whp_locations":[6073,4101],"repositories":[1669],"surnames":[1017],"class_list":["post-7414","evidence","type-evidence","status-publish","hentry","tag-naturalization","evidence_category-jefferson-county-court","whp_locations-jefferson-ashtabula-county","whp_locations-offaly","repositories-family-search","surnames-colgan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/migration.welshofharpersferry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/evidence\/7414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/migration.welshofharpersferry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/evidence"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/migration.welshofharpersferry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/evidence"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/migration.welshofharpersferry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migration.welshofharpersferry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7414"},{"taxonomy":"evidence_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migration.welshofharpersferry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fevidence_category&post=7414"},{"taxonomy":"whp_locations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migration.welshofharpersferry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwhp_locations&post=7414"},{"taxonomy":"repositories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migration.welshofharpersferry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Frepositories&post=7414"},{"taxonomy":"surnames","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migration.welshofharpersferry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fsurnames&post=7414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}