We the undersigned petitioners of William’s Centre Williams County Ohio, respectfully represent that the public necessity requires, that your Honorable body establish a Mail Rout, commencing at Lima [Ia?] and extending by way of Lexington to Jackson, Steuben, and Hamilton of aforesaid state. Thence to Saint Joseph, William’s Centre, Washington, and Brunersburgh, to Defiance Ohio. Intersecting the Southern Mail from Cincinnatti by way of Miami Canal: which opens a direct communication to Chicago Illinois and the western part of the United States. And by so doing your Petitioners will ever pray.

as we have been imposed upon in our mails not reaching us as they sohould have done we thought it proper to try to get a mail rout established as the petition calls for, as the mails now come to this place they stop within four miles of this place and lay there one week before we get it I suppose there will be some more petitions sent to you, or some other member, praying for the same rout to be established if we have not petitioned to the right place please to inform us better