To the Honorable Congreess of the United States, your petitioners Citizens of the Northwestern part of the
State of Missouri would respectfully represent to your Honorable Body, that we laborr under great inconveniences & trouble for want of Mail facilities with the Middle
& Southern part of the State of Iowa. And for a remedy there for, we would pray your
Hons to establish a post rout from Kirksville in Adair County Missouri by the way of
Lancaster, Schuyler County Missouri, to Fort Desmoin in Polk County Iowa.
And we as in duty bound would ever pray
| John. T. Smith | Abel. Stutkey |
| Clark. Adkins | Henry. Adkins |
| Benjamin Murphy | John. Adkins |
| Stillman Snell | G. J. Clevenger |
| John B. Smith | Canada [?] Owenby |
| Richmond Stice | Bradford Hunsaker |
| W. A. Cochran | Asa Stice |
| Nelson. Grogan | J. C. Goode |
| Wm S. Trey | D. Brassfield |
| S. Butterworth | Levi Nicholas |
| David James. | Wm Horton |
| W. F. G. Lansdale | James Nicholas |
| Isaac. Lansdale | Thomas B. Howe |
| Wm Lansdale | |
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This Petition to be referred to the committee on Post offices & Post RoadsW P Hall
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Missouri
Memorial of Citizens of Missouri praying for a mail Route from Kirkville Mo. to Fort Des Moines Iowa
Memorial of Citizens of Missouri praying for a mail Route from Kirkville Mo. to Fort Des Moines Iowa
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January 28, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads
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W. P. Hall
Handwritten Transcription, 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