To the Honorable Senate and House of Represent. . . [?] the United States of America in Congress assembled
Your memorialists of the Teritory of Wisconsin and State of Illinois respectfully show unto your Honorable Houses that in the Opinion of your memorialists that the public Convenience and interests demand the Establishment of a post rout starting at South Port on Lake Michigan and terminating at Richmond MCHenry Co and State of Illinois by the way of Pleasant Prairie Knoxons Corners Liberty English Prairie to Richmond a distance of about thirty miles your memorialists respectfully solicit your attention to the following facts and consideration the rout for which we ask on leaving Southport takes a course Southwest pasing through a rich and flourishing County rappidly rap increasing your memorialists therefore pray that your Honorable Houses will regard their wants and Establish the Said rout as in duty bound your memorialists will Ever pray
Subscribers Names Subscribers Names
Henry D. Huff Edmund Ha[?]ry
Edwin Eddy Henry Overton
Simon [?] Didama P.M. Liberty Cornelius Oneil
Andrew Benedict Peter. B. goodfellow
Dudley Cass G L. Button
Martin, L, Easterbrooks John. M. Clark
Robert Noxon
Michael Kingman Deloss Van alstine
Hamden A Corey William, Warner
Joseph Otis Lewis. Huntley
W H Van Duyen Lemuel Booth
Freeman. A. Smith
Peter E Smith
Daniel Williams Chapin A Wilcox
William G Smith Saml Curtiss
Henry Britton Horace Weaver
George E Fitch Wm S Gilmore
[?] Louis Mcgoon Albert H. Otez.
Goodwin Burritt John Worrall
J DeLacey NA Lacy MD.
Wm H, Smith Hermon L thorp
Tora Benedict H Alamon Shum[?]
John Pinney P. H. Youmans
H. L. Munson Philonder Judson
James Turnock John D Benedict
Joseph Mellon Morris Smith
Samuel M Coy Hiram Weaver
Joseph Stone D, W, Morgan
Asa Houg Chas Jennings
D. Pinkerton
Buckly Braniard Tanos Bryant
John N, Brazie J N. Van Alstine
Joseph G Blakeslee D M, Van Alstine
Isaac Brown P, C, Cuss
Augustus Van Alstin
Truman Harmon

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Jno. H. TweedyWashington DC
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Southport Mail petition

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Illinois re
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Petition of Henry D. Huff & 64 other citizens of ^Wisconsin^ Southport of Illinois & Wisconsin praying for a Post route from Southport W. T. to Richmond McHenry Co. Illinois, via Pleasant Prairie, Knoxons corner, Li^I^berty & English Prairie.
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February 4, 1848 Referred to the Committee on Post office and Post Roads
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Committee on Post offices & P. roads
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Mr Tweedy

Handwritten Document Signed, 3 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, NABĀ