This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FERGUS, McGHEE, ROCHEAD/ROUGHEAD Classification: Immigration Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YRB.2ACE/945 Message Board Post: William Fergus Statement of Intention to become a citizen of The United States Essex County for William Fergus late of Kirkintilloch in the county of Dunbarton in Scotland in the Kingdom of Great Britain and now a resident of Elizabethtown in the County of Essex and State of New York being duly sworn deposits this letter that sites his bona fide intention to become a citizen of the United States and to renounce forever all allegiances and fidelity to any foreign prince potentate state or sovereignity whatsoever and particularly by name the prince potentate state or sovereignity where the said William Fergus is now a subject to wit the King of Great Britain and that he will support the constitution of the United States. William Fergus Signed before me this 27th day of September 1826 Leonard Stow, dep. clerk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ State of New York Essex County I William Fergus do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States and that I do absolutely and entirely renounce to by me all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate state & sovereignity whatever and particularly to the King of Great Britain where I was a subject. William Fergus Sworn and subscribed this 13th day of February 1831 before me. Leonard Stow, clerk