We the undersigned reccommend to your honorable body in Congress assembled to pass a law to establish a post rout
from Perkinsville in Madison County to Tipton in Tipton County by the way of New Lancaster
in Tipton County all in the state of Indiana once a week and your petitioners will ever prey &c
New Lancaster [Dec?]. 15th 1847| subscribers Names | subscribers Names |
| G. Newby | Aben Shaw |
| Carter T. Jackson | Zeddock Darrow |
| Z Brown | Isaac Shaw |
| John etcheson | |
| C. A. Thurman | Henry Ishmael |
| Geor W Decker | William Nelson |
| John H Beeler | Wm Townsend |
| Richard Miner | James McCley |
| Henry Harbert | Daniel N[inn?] |
| James T.1 Quick | Gimason Brayes |
| Abner Coon | G. W Remmek |
| Elias Groover | |
| T. L Beckwith P.M. at. Perkinsville | |
| A B Cole | |
| Samuel Townsend | |
| Rewbin Farlow | |
| David Tranbarger | |
| Alfred Tranbarger | |
| Henry Mackelfresh | |
| Michael Mitchell | |
| Elias Mitchell | |
| Hugh Johnson | |
| James I Jack | |
| John Ishmael | |
| Fred Ishmael |
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This would appear to be necessary
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Mr Wick [Ind?]
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Indiana
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The petition of 35 citizens of Tipton County Indiana praying, praying the establishment of a mail route from Perkinsville in Madison county to
Tipton, in Tipton county via New Lancaster in said state
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Comee on Post offices & post roads
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January 11, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post office & Post Roads
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Wick
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,