Maryland Supreme Court, M'Creery case (1799) in the case of M'Creery's Lessee v. Allender, the court rendered its decision in a dispute over whether an Irish emigrant, Thomas M'Creery, had become a naturalized American citizen and was thereby able to leave an estate to a relative who still lived in Ireland. The court decided in M'Creery's favor, based on a certificate executed before Justice Samuel Chase. The certificate reads:
<Thomas M'Creery, in order to become...naturalized according to the Act of Assembly...on the 30th of September, 1795, took the oath...before the Honorable Samuel Chase, Esquire, then being the Chief Judge of the State of Maryland...and did then and there receive from the said Chief Judge, a certificate thereof...:
Maryland; I, Samuel Chase, Chief Judge of the State of Maryland, do hereby certify all whom it may concern, that...personally appeared before me Thomas M'Creery, and did repeat and subscribe a declaration of his belief in the Christian Religion, and take the oath required by the Act of Assembly of this State, entitled, "An Act for Naturalization."> 1799MD001
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Endnotes:
1799MD001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Maryland Supreme Court, 1799. M'Creery's Lessee v. Allender, 4 H. & Mett. 259 (1799).