John Albert Berriman Wills – Intent to become a US Citizen Declaration of Intention to Become a US Citizen, 1872. Document Cover. John A.B. Wills Declaration of Intention to become a US Citizen, Filed January 19th, 1872 in the office of the Essex County Clerk, Elizabethtown, New York Detail of Declaration of Intention. John A.B. Wills, 27 years old. Living in the town of Moriah, New York.