Charles Weniger to Fred’k T. Frelinghuysen, August 16, 1884

Mr. Weniger to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

Sir: In answer to your letter of the 4th of this month, I send you inclosed a certified copy of my naturalization certificate.

In regard to my inheritance, I am unable to tell you the amount, as it consists in a share of some real estate which my mother owned at the time of her death in the city of Königsee, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Germany.

My father, Ferdinand Weniger, of said city, who is executor of my mother’s will, informed me that the Amtsblatt of Königsee, which is the official organ of the Government for the city of Königsee, called upon me by a legal notice to appear for military duty, in default of which my inheritance would be confiscated; that, furthermore, my father was called upon by the sheriff of said city to produce my person before court or to give information concerning my absence.

As for dates, I cannot give you any information. They seem to me immaterial, as any only aim is that you may kindly cause the German Government to erase my name from the military register, after which the confiscation of my inheritance would be consequently void.

Should you, however, judge proper, I shall write to Königsee for official documents concerning my case; but I fear the delay caused hereby would perhaps complicate the matter, which is still simple.

Yours, &c.,

United States of America, State of New York, City and County of New York, ss:

Be it remembered that on the 3d day of June, in the year of our Lord 1884, Charles Weniger appeared in court of common pleas for the city and county of New York (a court of record, having common-law jurisdiction, a clerk, and seal), and applied to the said court to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States of America, pursuant to the provisions of the several acts of the Congress of the United states of America for that purpose made and provided.

And the said applicant having produced to the said court such evidence, having made such declaration and renunciation, and having taken such oaths as are by the said acts required, thereupon it was ordered by the court that the said applicant be admitted, and he was accordingly admitted, to be a citizen of the United States of America.