JOHN RYAN CITIZENSHIP APPLICATION The following is an abstract of the record sworn and subscribed in open court according to law as recorded in the Records and Minutes of the Wayne County (Indiana) Circuit Court, Book D, May 1835 to October 1838.
John Ryan an applicant who wishes to become a Citizen of the United States now here comes into open court and files the following declaration to wit,î Be it remembered that on the second day of the Wayne County Circuit Court of the Term of September 1836, He personally came into open court John Ryan who being duly sworn says that he was twenty four years of age the 5th day of May 1836 that he was born in the Town of Kelly in the County of KilKinney in Ireland where he always resided until he emigrated to the United States , that he arrived in the United States on the 5th day of June 1832 and he has resided in said state each day that he now resides in the Borough of Richmond County of Wayne and State of Indiana and that it is and has been his bona fide intention become a Citizen of the United States and to renounce forever loyalty to any foreign prince or potentate state or sovereignty whatever and all allegiance and fidelity to William 4th King of Great Britain Ireland and of the British sovereignty which he is now a subject.
John Ryan
Sworn and subscribed in open court according to law
Records & Minutes
Wayne Circuit Court
Book D
May 1835 to Oct. 1838