Whereas the people of the Honeyage and part of the Gennessee valies Part in the County of Potter and State of Pennsylvania and part in the County of Allegany and state of New York are subjected to great inconvenience on account of there being no Post Office convenient of access (the most of the people having to travel from seven to fifteen miles to a Post Office) We the undersigners Inhabitants of said valiys petition your Honorable body to grant that a mail rout be established in manner described as follows—That is to commence in the town of Sharon near the intersection of the Honeyage valey road with the Post road from Olean to Condersport Thence to the vicinity of M^cHay’s grist mill near the Gennessee forks Thence to Wellsville intersecting the mail rout from Angelica to Whitesville making a distance in all of about twenty seven miles For which you petitioners will ever pray.

A description of the Honeyage and part of the Gennessee valies.

Near the mouth of the Honeyage valey is a noted landing place for lumber denominated the shingle house There is one store and probably there is some millions of feet of lumber rafted in at this place for Pittsburgh market every spring It ^is^ about 16 miles from Olean on the Post road leading from that place to Cauders post the county seat of Potter From this place to the Honey^age^ forks is betwen 6 and 7 miles and in the distance there is 6 saw mills on the main creek and two on a branch that comes in at the forks as the place is called At this place is a store and it is quite a centeral place for business It is eight miles to Bolivar Post Office. At each of the mills alluded to there is a huddle of from two to five families besides farmers living on the road The mills all do a good business some a heavy business and are capable of cutting from one to two millions of feet in a year

From the forks to the uper mill on the stream is 5 miles from which place to the mouth the creek is a lawful public highway There are 6 mills in the distance about the main stream and its branches some propeled by water and some by steam the most of which are doing a fair business. People talk of putting up some steeam mill back from the stream another season The valey above the forks is seattled about as it ^is^ below

Near the uper mill is a road leading off south to a new settlement of something over fifty families Their nearest Post Office is at Bolivar or Wellsville a distance averaging about 15 miles

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on the summit about 4 miles from the last mentioned mill is another road to the same settlement. It ^is^ but about four years since the settlement commenced There is also another road from the settlement to the river above M^cCay’s mill which place is from two to three miles from the summit before mentioned About this ^mill^ is a considerably dense population At the North and east the country has been settled considerable time and and the people are forward in improvements At the South and West the county is new and the settlem[?] ^is^ fast increasing They are dependent on M^cCays mill for their grinding in that direction for ten or twelve miles There is a Store near the mill. From this place to Wellsville about 8 miles there is a road on both sides of the river the most of the way inhabited by farmers There are also some saw mills on the river doing a good business.

In connection with this description is a kind of rude map but sufficiently correct to show where the mail rout runs around us and dotted line will show the contemplated rout from the Shingle house to Wellsville

We believe the above description to be assentially correct