Letitia Carson · Documents
North Carolina, 1824–1851
Ashe County, North Carolina. The papers by which the Carson brothers, emigrants from County Antrim, declared their intention to become United States citizens and were naturalized. David Carson’s own citizenship, completed in Missouri in 1844, is the fact on which his 1850 Oregon land claim rested.
8 files in the creator’s folder , 2 of them carrying his own line of description and 0 of them transcribed.
Filenames are the creator's. Where he numbered the sheets of one document, each sheet is listed on its own line, as he files them. A line in quotation marks is his own description from the 2013 index; the sentence above it is the Library's, written from what the filename says and from the transcription where one exists.
18241025_Citizenship_Declaration-1
Declaration of intention to become a citizen.
The creator’s own index calls it: “E. & S. Carson Declare US Citizenship Intent”
18241030_Citizenship_Declaration-2
Declaration of intention to become a citizen.
The creator’s own index calls it: “E. & S. Carson Declare US Citizenship Intent”
Provenance
- Records
- Public records; not under copyright
- Scanned and published by
- Bob Zybach and Janet Meranda
- This folder
- 1824-1851_North_Carolina
- Described
- By the Library, 4 September 2026
