February 4, 1790, while discussing a bill to establish a uniform rule of naturalization U.S. Rep Aedanus Burke (South Carolina) said: “The case of the children of American parents born abroad ought to be provided for, as was done in the case of English parents, in the 12th year of William III”
Burke, presumably, is referring to “An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject”
Stat. Realm Vol. 7, page 636 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol7/pp636-638
[] no Person born out of the Kingdoms of England Scotland or Ireland or the Dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalized or made a Denizen (except such as are born of English Parents) shall be capable to be of the Privy Councill or a Member of either House of Parliament or to enjoy any Office or Place of Trust either Civill or Military or to have any Grant of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments from the Crown to himself or to any other or others in Trust for him
Here the English law itself acknowledges that the foreign-born child of English parents is naturalized.
James Madison, who had no part in drafting the 1790 Act, led the committee which drafted the 1795 Act which repealed the careless language of the 1790 Act.