The following includes citations from Kent, Story & the Immigration & Nationality Acts of 1790, 1795 & 1802. It also mentions US Sec of State Thomas Bayard, whom I have already included in a previous article on the history of the definition of US citizenship. Bayard concluded in 1885 that the son of a German subject, born in Ohio, was not a citizen under the statute or the Constitution, because “he was on his birth subject to a foreign power, and not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States”.
Brooklyn-Daily-Eagle-Sunday-February-26-1888-p-6 Pres eligibility