Found this on the Rockland County, New York site:
Reading through these petitions provided a look into the lives of some of
the people who came to Rockland County.
On January 20, 1908, James L. Cooper, Judge and Acting Clerk for the
Fremont County Court in Colorado, sent an affidavit regarding the
declaration of intention of
Patrick Cassedy, along with a money order for fifty cents, to Cyrus M.
Crum, Esq., the Rockland County Clerk. (Crum served as County Clerk for 51
years-from 1869 to
1919.)
According to the judge's affidavit, Mr. Cassedy had made his declaration
to become a citizen of the United States in the Rockland County Court "on
or about the 23rd day
of October 1885." At the time he made his declaration, Mr. Cassedy "was
engaged in the occupation of heating iron in the Rolling Mills, throughout
the country, and in
pursuit of his said occupation, moved about considerably from place to
place, and that by reason of his moving about aforesaid, his said
declaration of intention to
become a citizen became lost or destroyed..."
According to the judge, Mr. Cassedy did apply for copies of the
declaration but never received them, "probably on account of the
fact...that he was moving from place to
place and had no fixed abode."
Mr. Cassedy had been living in Fremont County, Colorado, for the past 13
years and was, once again, requesting a copy of his declaration because
"he has located upon and taken up certain mining claims upon the public
domain in said County, and for that reason he desires to be in a position
to establish for the proper department of the United States Government,
his right to possess and hold the said mining claims."
In a letter attached to the affidavit, the judge wrote that "This old
fellow seems to be an honest old man, and from what he tells me he seems to
have moved around the
coun- try considerably keeping his papers in an
old trunk; but I am convinced he is all right."
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