To the Hon. the Senate & House of Representatives in the Congress of the United State
Your Petitioners Citizens of the County of Eaton in the State of Michigan, Residing
on or near the line of the State Road from Batle Creek to Lansing, the Capital of said State, Respectfully represent that the Seat
of Government of said State having been lately removed to the Township of Lansing,
in the County of Ingham, and that there has been lately Surveyed and Established
a State Road from Battle Creek to the said Capital by the most direct and Eligible
route, the distance whereof is Forty four. miles, passing through Bellevue and Charlotte, and that the towns and districts,
on the line of said Road have no other direct Communication with the said Capital,
and that the business of the Country is constantly and Rapidly increasing, and demands
further facilities of Communication by mail with the Seat of Government than are at present afforded by the Circuitous Routes
now Established
Your Petitioners therefore pray for the Establishment of a Daily mail Route from Battle-Creek,
in the County of Calhoun, to Lansing in the County of Ingham, passing through Bellevue,
and Charlotte,—for which your Petitioners will Ever pray
Charlotte Decr 7th A.D. 1847| Names. of Citizens | Names of Citizens. | ||
| Harvey Williams | Vincent Lee | ||
| Hosey Hovey | Nathan. A. Johnson | ||
| Zelotes B Searls | 50 | Ralph Bellares | |
| William Stoddard | Sherwood Snider | ||
| 5 | Horace L. Stoddard | J D McCammary | |
| Wm Hammond | D. S. Winslow | ||
| U D Shaw | Christophhe Rugh | ||
| B. A. Winslow | 55 | Samuel Wheaton Jr | |
| H. M. Munson | John Jessup | ||
| 10 | Henry P Chase | Homer A. Ells | |
| J. D. Burns | Jesse Walker | ||
| William Carpenter | John Higby | ||
| Jesse Jones | Palmer Whitcomb | ||
| Wilber Beedle | 60 | A. F Babcock | |
| 15 | Ambrose Fox | H. J Robinson | |
| E. E. McIntyre | E Hayden | ||
| Henry Cook | Joseph P Hull | ||
| Henry Wandle | Ira Baily | ||
| Hiram Shepherd | [ |
H. B. Field. | |
| Layfayette Andrew | T. A. DeRiemer | ||
| 20 | T. F. Strauss | T. C. Turner | |
| Frederick F White. | William Seurls | ||
| I. Hayden | |||
| John Huey | John Searls | ||
| M A Tannehill | N. H. Cornell | ||
| 25 | M. E. Andrew | Daniel Kaufman | |
| William. Johnson | Asaph Landers | ||
| Wm. C. Foster | Rufus Brooks | ||
| Lorenzo G Foster | James Wells | ||
| Stephen Surles | A C H Maxson | ||
| 30 | E. R. Whiteouse | A L Baker | |
| O. C. Nichols | C Hildreth | ||
| Jerome B Nichols | Wm H Ells | ||
| Elijah Hall | Robert Rix | ||
| D C Walling | |||
| David Kinne | E. G. Gould | ||
| 35 | B E Russ PM Chester | B Landers | |
| S E. Millett | Geo W Nichols | ||
| Amos Kinne | [Martin?] Nichols | ||
| U M D Camp | Rollee S Cushing | ||
| Thomas Curry | James M Nichols | ||
| 40 | Leroy Shepherd | John Felara | |
| John [U?] Haynes | Stephen Davis | ||
| James Southworth | Moses Fox | ||
| Alpheus Porter | Henry H Grale | ||
| Luman Foote | Lucius Dunton | ||
| 45 | Marcus Rowley | Samuel Coulter | |
| Hiram Hutchings | Stephen Boyd | ||
| Solomon Kauffman | C. A. Moulton | ||
| [?]any Baldwin | Amos Eddy | ||
| Dennis Eddy |
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Michigan. Mr Embree
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Petition of inhabitants of Calhoun Eaton & Ingham Counties Michigan, for a mail route
from Battle Creek in the County of Calhoun to Michigan the Capitol of the State via Bellevue and Charlotte in the County of Eaton.
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December 30 1847 Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads.
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Chas E Stuart
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Charles E Stuart
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Here are two applications—one for a route from Battle Creek to Michigan—The other
from Marshall to Michigan—one route would seem to be necessary.
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,