Granby Essex Co. Vt.
Dec 1847.To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States,![]()
Dec 1847.To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States,
We your humble Petitioners pray your Honorable Bodies to establish a Post route from
Northumberland N.H. to East Burke Vt. through ^Guildhall^ Granby and Victory. One Post Office only is needed and that in Granby. We wish Gershom Carpenter appointed Post Master.
The distance of the proposed rout asked for is Twenty-two miles. We ask for the mail
to be carried through oncea week ^that is, from Northumberland N.H. to East Burke Vt. and from thence to back to Northumberland.^
We send you in the above a diagram of the surrounding towns and Post Offices. The
nearest Post Office is Lunenburg, which is nine miles from where we ask for ours.
Guildhall P. O. is eleven miles from us. East Burke is eleven miles. Victory East
Haven Ferdinand and Maidstone all of which you will see join Granby have no P. Offices.
That we may enjoy the privilege belonging to citizens of this Republic, and be on
a level with others in general is the prayer of your petitioners.
| Names in Granby | Names in Victory | |
| Gershom Carpenter | Georg H Bell Esq | |
| Abel Carpenter | Deac. John Shores | |
| John Wooster | Chelsea Hildreth BO | |
| Jonathan Matthews Jr. | Isaac R Houston | |
| Josiah Bauhter | ||
| Edward D Griffin | ||
| Simon Carpenter | ||
| Abrum W. Rice | John Bacan P. M. | E Burke |
| Ashley Appleton | Charles C Newell | “ |
| Francis G Appleton | Silas Dexter | “ |
| Henry Hartshorn | Titus Newell | “ |
| Samuel D Busel | Renselear Trite | “ |
| George Wells | Moses Whitcomb | Lyndon |
| George A Appleton | Octavus Hunter | “ |
| Josiah D Jackson | Wm R Streeter | Burk |
| Moses Dundee Jr | Ira Harvey | “ |
| Charles Chaney | Dwite Bundy, Esq | “ |
| Aron Jackson | L. W. Jones | “ |
| Wm C. James | Willard Spencer | “ |
| James Farch | Josiah G Winslow | “ |
| Reid Humphrey Jr | “ | |
| Names in Eastham | Philip Smith | “ |
| Charles C Thurber. | Amos Bell | “ |
| Russell. Hofford. | Silas Harvey | “ |
| Amos P Bennett | “ | |
| Silvanus Jenkins | “ | |
| Dean Joy | “ | |
| Lorin Jenkins | “ | |
| Shepherd Tate | “ | |
| Jonathan Houghton | “ | |
| G W Bublen | “ | |
| Benjm Page | “ | |
| John M Eggleston | “ | |
| David. R Allen | “ | |
| Almore. S. Bennett | ||
| John Smith | ||
| Timothy Fisher | ||
| C W. Smith M. D. | ||
| Northumberland NH | ||
| James B. Brown. P. M. | Guildhall Vt | |
| Chas Bellows. | Elon G Hadlock | |
| Henry Hall former P M | John Dodge | |
| H S Hall | Henry L. Watson P. M. | |
| James Poole | [Beniah?] Griffin | |
| W. H. Poole | Royal Cutler | |
| Douglass P Pike | George Hubbard | |
| Alexander Brown | Wm H. Hartstrong | |
| S B Chavel. | John Coblugh | |
| Elijah Ware | Benja. F. Mansbee | |
| Hubbard Easkill | Isaac Cummings | |
| Wm Haywood of Guildhall vt | Elisha Smith | |
| R. C. Burton of Lununberg Vt | ||
| Thos Hall Guildhall V.t. | ||
| Geo. C. Cheney | ||
| J. W. Putnam | ||
| N U French P. M. Lunenburgh Vt | ||
| Jeremiah Glines, Lunenburg Vt. |
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Vermont.
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St John
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Petition of Gersham Carpenter &c. for Establishment of New Post route in Essex County Vermont, from Norumberland West, to East Burke
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December 28 1847 Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads
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To committee on Post Offices & Post roads
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Mr Peck
Handwritten Document Signed, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 367: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Committees, 1847-1849, NAB,