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In Probate Court [Erie County, OH]

Be it Remembered, That on the (Twenty Sixth) day of (March) A.D. 187(9), came
(August Wott) an alien, native of (Germany) a free white person, and proved 
to the satisfaction of the Court that he has made the requisite declaration
of his intention to be NATURALIZED and become A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES,
that he was (22) years of age on (or about the 25th) day of (March) last past,
that he first arrived in the United States in the month of (April) A.D. 18(65).
That at the time he so arrived he had not attained the eighteenth year of his 
age, and also at the same time came (Solomon Brown) and being duly sworn, did
depose and say, that the said (August Wott) has resided for (14) years last 
past in the United States, and he has resided one year last past in the State 
of Ohio, and that during all 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.

AND THEREFORE, the said (August Wott) made solemn oath 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 Soverignty (sic), whatsoever, and particularly to 
(William Emperor of Germany) whose subject he was.

Whereupon it is ordered, by the Court that a Certificate of Citizenship
be issued to him in payment of costs of this application.

(AE Merrill, Probate Judge)