To the Hon. the Senate & House of Representatives in Congress assembled.
We the undersigned Citizens of the State of Michigan, earnestly Petition to your honorable
body to grant & establish a Mail Route, from Marshall in Calhoun county to Michigan
(the Capitol of this state) in Ingham County, by the way of Eaton Rapids in the County
of Eaton, on the most Direct and feasible [route?], & we further Pray, that the Mail may be transported on the same daily, or [no less than two?] times per week, if it is not Deemed practicable to establish a Daily Mail on said
Route. the above Route is of great importance to this state, & much needed by the
Citizens thereof, & we humbly hope that our Prayer may be granted.
Michigan January 18th 1848| Names | Names |
| Benjamin Knight | John Crichett |
| Jonathan B Soule | Joseph N Smith |
| James Turner | John O. A. Jenison. |
| S, S. Carter | Saml Lapham |
| S, Mitchell | Wellington Levanway |
| W. G. Kent | A, D, Jackson |
| Elisha Cochran | Joseph Anderson |
| D Blue | C, O, Mitchell, |
| [ |
Osmun Childs |
| A W Ford | |
| J. H. Sanford D. D. | Nelson W Edger |
| B. F Livingston | J, P, Cowles |
| Milo. H. Turner | John R[eeve?] |
| Lyman Carver | |
| Leonard. G. Rand | C H [L?]othrop |
| Jas Turner | F. [Q?]. Littlejohn |
| J, [H?], Kilborn | Henry M Dodge |
| A: C Van Kaalte. | |
| N. Buel Eldredge | John P Cook |
| Robert Crouse | R. P Eldredge |
| N H. Bingham | W Shoemaker |
| C. H. Taylor | Rix Robinson |
| Hiram Smith | Campbell Waldo |
| Nathan Barlow | E. B. Danforth |
| Ariamas Worden | |
| S, C, Strong | S. G. Harris |
| Z M Mowry | Abram Mack |
| Ezra P Baldwin | S. W. Denton |
| Minot T Lane | Francis Baker |
| Ira St John | E Granger |
| Murdoch F[re?]see | John D. Pierre |
| L, Hazen | Alvanado Bro[ah?] |
| E Laurence | Benj F Ferris |
| Geo. Matthews | Z. Williams |
| A. E. Campbell | R B Dimond |
| Andrew Murray. | H D Terry |
| Jehiel Enos | A. W. Hovey |
| Wm Bla[des?] | G, B, Turner |
| S. N. Warren | Milo Powell |
| D, D. Be[nnet?] | Levi Patchen |
| J. R. C. Emmons | Wm Morris |
| Bethuel Noyes | S. Vickery |
| A. P. Tourcy | H H Stone |
| D B Denn[is?] | Geo, W, Jewett |
| D G Qwack[nicoff?] | J P King |
| [Chase?] Spencer | John P Hubbard |
| H Stone | N, A, Balch |
| N G Isbell | Jno. Allen |
| Geo R Griswold | |
| E [S Henry?] | James [P?] Russell |
| A N Hart | James Mulhohlen |
| D. D. Sinclair | H. L Whipple |
| I. B. Fitzgerald | J B. Frink |
| Chas Smith | D, V, Bell |
| D S Weston | Geo, B, Cooper |
| L J Warner | O, C, Wiswell |
| W. R. Marsh | J. C. Bailey |
| Henry Pe[um?]oyer | Cornelius Ockford |
| John A, Brooks | J, L F Langley |
| James Davis | T. R, Cuming |
| B. Hill | Chester Hazard |
| Geo. W. Peck | B Porter |
| A, F. Bell | |
| A, W, Beul. | Joseph Kensch |
| W, N, Martin | Bird Norton |
| O D Skinner | George Allen |
| William P Skinner | Mitchell G[ue?] |
| W John D Skinner | |
| Morris D. Edmonds | William [Harvard?] |
| J Waddle | L Towns |
| C. H. Thompson | M Hows |
| Henry Woolley | J Snellgrove |
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| William M. Tompkins | Benj. O Davies |
| William Gallery | Hiram Hammond |
| C, C, Chatfield | Charles Hinckley |
| Albert Haughton | Joshua Morton |
| Amos Hamlin | Charles B. Petty |
| Gardner T Rand | B F Bailey |
| John M, French | |
| Pierpont. E. Spicer | S M Reighton |
| Johnson Montgomery | Wm Wall |
| Aaron West | Welcom Landfair |
| Wm Sterling | Abraham Smoke |
| C, S, Palmer | Wm Southworth |
| Philo Norton | Washington Warren |
| A. M. Alexander | |
| Peter Pickett | Samuel Hamlin Jr |
| Augustus Haughton | Samuel R Hibbard |
| Wilber Exell | Joseph Phillips |
| Warren, H, Stone | |
| Rue Perrine | Justin Skinner |
| Levi Earl | J, Snyder |
| Marcus A Fanwell | |
| Calvin Hale | Orren, Rogers |
| Alford Whitcomb James H Griffin |
D, A, Winslow Post Master Charlotte |
| Samuel Mesh Jr | David Rogeres |
| Alva Bishop | [?] Fry |
| S. Russell Loomis | Sidney Allen |
| Oliver Collins | Amos [?] |
| J C Stedman | Levi Hale |
| Richard Ferris | Isaac Ashley |
| George. W Ashley | |
| Franklin Spears | Sanford W. Morse |
| Joel Latsoon | William Claflin |
| James Moe | Charles Gale |
| Henry Potts | Jas. M. Higby |
| Hiram Rogers | Robert McQueen |
| James [Foster?] | Joseph Knight |
| Palmer Whitcomb | John Kikendall |
| Joseph Walworth | A Harwood |
| John. S. Moe | Henry. A. Shaw |
| A Atwood | M C Dyer |
| James Austin | Enos Fenton |
| T. B. Huntington | James Snyder |
| A, C, Willson | William Briggs |
| James McQueen | Charles Hanchett |
| Thos, W, Havens | Parker Abbey |
| Wm H Town | Lorin Harwood |
| Amos S[picer?] | David, B, Bradford |
| A, D, D, Olmsted | [Norman?] Smith |
| Orsamus Willison | George Hutch[ |
| Leptha W Fleming | George Hutchings |
| George W Bentley | Erastus Field |
| Jehiel W [Lakes?] | Reuben Field |
| John Bellinger | |
| Samuel Hamlin | Ephraim Hall |
| Josiah D Pierson | Wm Decker Jr |
| Jacob Potts | |
| Henry Pope | Isaac [C?]orce |
| Andrew Houpt | Lauren Pickett |
| O L Powers | David Bishop |
| Norman Abbott | Nathan Flaneley |
| J, S, Sutton | Giles Mandeville |
| Horace Hamlin | Jonas Childs |
| M W Peirson | John Childs |
| William [?] Childs | Stephan Pearson |
| Wm R Wright | Champlin Havens |
| John S, Brown | Moses H Pearson |
| Patrick Gallery | Watson Wales |
| Jesse W Miller | John [F?]elton |
| Hiram A Chapman | George C Barr |
| Benjamin Kauffman | [S?] M Allyn |
| J. L. Huntington | Nelson Wood |
| G. W. Knight | John Bunker jr |
| H Wolfe | Henry Losey |
| B S Wilkinson | John, D. Wood |
| N C Merritt | David Verplanck |
| J. J Van Allen | David Barr |
| Thos H. Cowan | A B Munn |
| Wm Van Allen | Isaac C Cochran |
| P H Fisher | Erastus Ranney |
| John M French [Sr?] | C S Palmer |
| George Y Cowan | A. Fordham |
| Hiram Imus | Josiah Irons |
| Pardon Dolbee | Thomas, A, G, Howe |
| Patrick Howard | Job Ferris |
| Peter Britten | |
| Benj F Mills | Jonathan Chadwick |
| [Felix?] Hils | Edward Spears |
| Asa Gibbs | S S Bly |
| S. Ferris | C. R. Sherman |
| Ahaz Allen. | T R Stringham |
| W. W. Wolcott | B Strickland |
| Peter Pea[body?] | A, G, Fish |
| John [E?] Clark | |
| T Strong | Stacy Jones |
| J W Collins | Francis Champlin |
| Willis Bush | John [Noice?] |
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Michigan
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Petition from the inhabitants of Eaton and Ingham Counties for a Mail route from Marshall
Michigan to the Capitol of the via the State via Eaton Rapids.
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Com on Po Offices & Post Roads.
Chas E Stuart
Chas E Stuart
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February 4, 1848 Referred to the Committee on Post office & Post Roads
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Right
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Charles E. Stuart
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Handwritten Document Signed, 4 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,