To the Honourable the Senate and house of Representatives in Congress Assembled
Your Petitioners beg leave to represent that it would conduce to the public good if
a Mail Route were Established commenceing at the Town of ^Tiffin^ Van Buren in the County of ^Seneca^ Hancock and State of Ohio runing West ^throug^ ^h^ the Townships of Portage & Pleasant in said County on the Van Buren [...?]Independence and ^&^ Ridgeville free turnpike to Defiance In the County of Defiance said Route will intersect
a portion of the Counties of Putnam and Henry in parts of the same which as well as
as Hancock have No post Routs. We therefore ask your Honorable Body to grant the prayer
of Your Petitioners
| A F Parker | |
| Jacob Carr | Wm Porterfield |
| W. Morris | Matthew Morain |
| E Barnd | |
| Wm L H[ |
Abraham Beals |
| Wm L Henderson | S. N. Porterfield |
| J. H. Reid | John Ewing |
| William Munssen | Wm H. Wheeler |
| Paul Sours | A D. Wing |
| J H. Barr | I. Spayth |
| Peter Westenhare | Daniel Foster |
| Levi Taylor | J. H. Morrison |
| Chester Church | H. R. Porter |
| Henry Gunt[?] | S Carlin |
| W F Gillison | John Decker |
| John Lo[?] | Simon Oppenheimer |
| Elijah Ash | |
| Harvey Eldridge | Robert Mitchell |
| Elisha Murrey | Jonah Porter |
| John Rader | David Cook |
| John Pickens | James Kelly |
| T. B. Kelley | Caleb Kelley |
| Wm D Edgar | James Pickeny |
| Wm Edgar | Ephram Kelly |
| Richard Wall | Thos Pickens |
| Ezra Hutherey | Andrew Bryan |
| Eli Murrey | Thos H Pickens |
| William H Wull | [ |
| Henry B. Wall | William Pickens |
| Jacob Thomas | [Wm?] P Spence |
| John maccormack | Peter Bryan |
| John Buttler | R. Mitchelson |
| Anderson Deter | John Thomas |
| Volentine Miller | John Porter |
| Andrew Luter | Henry Ragy |
| Henry liter | William Mitchell |
| Wm Rayle | Samuel Henrey |
| Edmund Butler | John S Miller |
| Andrew Nigh | S H Fairchild |
| John [Henry?] | Thomas P Edington |
| Joseph McCormick | James Spence |
| John Drake Jr | Isaac Osenbaugh |
| John Hough | Stepen Buttler |
| W. H. H. Stout | John dunbar |
| David M Pickens | Abraham Miller |
| Samuel Huskell | |
| Lo[ |
[ |
| Samuel Travis | [David?] Enminger |
| Jesse Beeson | Joseph O Aki[?] |
| Jacob Lancy | Wm necake |
| Wm H. Smith | [Keley?] [Sc?]ott |
| John Musser | |
| James H [Jacob?] | |
| Peter Bushong | Allen Wiseley |
| Thomas Rees | Jacob Musser |
| Simon Rodabaugh | John Graham |
| George [?]I[?] | Cyrus T. Whinlock |
| J F Perky | Wm Y Woodruff |
| George Suppens | George Graham |
| Henry Starner | John Hogge Jr |
| George Frederick | George Shane |
| J A Luderick | Joseph Bushong |
| John. P. Leslie | |
| William Foster | Joseph Whiteman |
| Jacob Shively Jr | David McClelland |
| [?] St[?]y | [Joseph?] A[?] |
| John Shoemaker | |
| Samuel Gorden | |
| J K Bryner | |
| Levi Sampson | |
| Daniel Crick | |
| Co[?] Edwards | |
| G. D. Teateareth | |
| E. Routson | |
| H [?]lley | |
| Henry Prader | |
| . . . | |
| George Hemry | Samuel P. Remel |
| John Thomas | |
| John Sluyst | Cyrus. T. Whitlock |
| Joseph Archer | Samuel Smart |
| George Archer | Richard Lamison |
| Philip Meny | |
| John P [?] | |
| Samuel Taytaylor | |
| Benjamin Shibly | |
| G. R. Nightingill | |
| W P Wetson | |
| Wm [?] | |
| John F. Ford | |
| Thos Bowen | |
| Smith Jones. | |
| Wm N. Parker | |
| Jasen Jones | |
| Joshua Jones | |
| George Crist | |
| Jacob Moorny | |
| Georg Mynice | |
| Charles Gren[?] |
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Ohio
A Petition from A. F Parker and 160 other citisens of the Counties of Seneca and Hancock Ohio praying for the establishment of a mail route from Tiffin in Seneca Co by west on the Vanburen Independence and Ridgeville Free Turnpike to Defiance, in Defiaince Co. Ohio
A Petition from A. F Parker and 160 other citisens of the Counties of Seneca and Hancock Ohio praying for the establishment of a mail route from Tiffin in Seneca Co by west on the Vanburen Independence and Ridgeville Free Turnpike to Defiance, in Defiaince Co. Ohio
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January 31, 1848, Referred to the Committee on the P. off and Post Roads
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R Dickinson
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Andrew Allen
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