Laura Keene's Naturalization Papers

[Susan Higginbotham]

(10-18-2015 07:10 PM)BettyO Wrote:  Found Laura Keene's Naturalization papers, circa 1856. Of particular interest - she had to "particularly renounce the crown and British Queen!" Sort of an insult, really - but I guess that 1856 was so close to the American Revolution that they felt compelled to include that.

The language was still being used in 1880. John Brophy's naturalization that year contains it.