To the honorabel the house of Representatives in Congress Assembled
Your Petitioners would Respectfully represent to your honorable body that they labour
under a great disadvantage for want of a mail Rout from Tipton the county seat of Tipton County Indiana to Strawtown in Hamilton County
Indiana Distance 13 miles we would also petition your honorable body to grant said
Rout and also to Establish a post office at West Kinderhook in Tipton County Ind which is immediately on the Rout above proposed we would also State that we beleve Said Rout would be greatly to the advantage of the public, Said Rout to start from Tipton on Satuarday
at
Strawtown and arive at Strawtown at 12 oclock Same day and to leave in the after noon and arrive in Tipton
on the Same Evning
And as in duty bound your petitioners will Ever be grateful
| William F Brady | William H Dunn | |
| William H Nelson | Levi Dunn | |
| Z Brown | ||
| O H Perry | John Chambers | |
| A M Young | Harvey. Goody[/county?] | |
| Jesse Brown | Elijah Hall | |
| Sylvester Turpen | ||
| J L Resslen | James Sparks | |
| Isaac Parker | Francis Beck | |
| Wm Franklin | ||
| John H [Hootz?] | Thomas Jackson | |
| B G Spencer | William Hall | |
| D Kemp | Orris .P. Ressler | |
| George Pitenbarger | D B Redmon | |
| Killis Going | Daniel Smith | |
| A. J. Redmon | ||
| A. H. Hensby | ||
| Newton J Jackson | ||
| Anderson Bailey | ||
| Robert Jack | ||
| Temple Fleete |
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Mr Wick
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Indiana
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Two petitions from Citizens of Tipton & Hamilton Counties Indiana, praying a post
route from Strawtown via Kinderhook to Canton (Tipton post office)
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Referred to comee on P.Ost offices and Post Roads.
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January 24, 1848 Referred to the comcommittee 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,