Be it Remembered, That on this Sixteenth Day of October in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixteen Peter Isaac Champenois a free white person of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, being an Alien, who has arrived in the United States after the passing of the Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to establish an uniform rule of Naturalization amd to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject", passed on the 14th day of April A.D. 1802, and who is desirous to be naturalized, did report himself to the clerk of the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in and for the County of Philadelphia in manner following, that is to say: That he the said Peter Isaac Champenois was born in Boygancy [Beaugency] in France on or about the First day of August in the Year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred sixty nine and is now about the age of Forty seven Years, that he was born a Member of the French Nation that he migrated from Nantz [Nantes] to the United States, and arrived at the port of New York on or about the [blank] Day of [blank] A.D. 1801 and that it is his intention to settle in Philadelphia. Recorded the Day and Year first above written, by me PI Champenois