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
November 13th 1847| 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[ docketing
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Southport Mail petition
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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