Subject: Citizenship

American citizenship certificate issued to Aaron Moses Dropsie on January 4, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This document is one of four personal and family documents related to Dropsie and his family.

Legal document pertaining to a citizenship application. Signed by Joseph Simon Cohen as Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on September 25, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Certificate of Naturalization issued on April 7, 1883, attesting to the naturalization of Joseph Speyer Offenberg as a citizen of the United States of America. The certificate is from the Circuit Court of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and bears the signatures of Theron F. Giddings, Clerk of the Circuit Court, and Joseph Speyer Offenberg. The official seal of the Circuit Court of Kalamazoo is also present. The document is filed in Arc.MS.56, Box 8, Folder 12.

Legal document detailing the citizenship application of Simon Levy Content in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 27, 1810. Levy swears to renounce allegiance to the King of Holland and his intention to become a U.S. citizen. His naturalization petition, dated October 1, 1810, is held in the American Jewish Archives.

Citizenship certificate issued to Harris Rosenthal on April 11, 1857, in New York. The certificate measures 9.5" x 14".

Citizenship certificate issued to Leopold Morse in Massachusetts on June 1, 1855. The document includes biographical information about Morse, noting his career in retail clothing (Leopold Morse & Co.), his terms as a United States Representative from Massachusetts (1877-1885, 1887-1889), his presidency of the Post Publishing Co. (publisher of The Boston Post), and his founding of the Boston Home for Infirm Hebrews and Orphanage in Mattapan, Massachusetts. Morse (August 15, 1831 – December 15, 1892) is described as having made his fortune in retail clothing.

Handwritten citizenship document on vellum, signed by Joseph Simon Cohen, Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, for Gustavus Rentak. Dated January 26, 1844, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Legal document attesting to citizenship, signed by Benjamin Nones in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 26, 1810. The document also involves John Kingsland and references Georgetown, District of Columbia.

Legal document recording the citizenship oath of Michael Gugenheim, taken in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 21, 1858. The document is signed by Jacob Beesen, Clerk.

Legal document detailing the naturalization process of Solomon Nathan. The document records Nathan's citizenship in Eureka, Nevada on August 1, 1874, and subsequent registrations in Maricopa, Arizona Territory (November 1878) and Shasta County, California (1886). The document suggests Nathan either owned a store or worked as a miner in each of these remote mining areas.

Citizenship/Naturalization Certificate for Jacob Unger, issued in New York, New York on September 20, 1847. The document includes seals.

Naturalization certificate filed with the Court of Common Pleas in New York, New York, on April 6, 1858, documenting the naturalization of Jacob Wertheim. The document includes an affidavit attesting to Wertheim's character by Leopold Goldschmidt and a renunciation of allegiance to other governments. The certificate measures approximately 8" x 13" and shows minor edge damage and wrinkling.