This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZFB.2ACI/4054.1 Message Board Post: Naturalization of an immigrant involved several steps, so the different dates probably represent the different times the person, with his sponsors on one of those occasions, appeared before the Circuit Court. The Family History Library has microfilms of the index cards to New England naturalizations up to 1906. Years ago, I spent some time looking at the negative copies of the records themselves at the National Archives in Washington, DC. You should check their website to see if they can supply copies of individual records by mail.