To the Hon Cave Johnson p M General of the united states
the undersigned your pertitioners would respecfully represent that a mail rout is
necessary for the accommodation of the inhabitants living upon said rout such rout
commencing at st charles Kane county Illinois, from thence Fairfield Wains Line post
office to Huntleys Grove Broady Grove pains point post office Oregon city ^ovr quadature^ ogle county the distance is about fifty five miles that thire is but two post offices
on said route line post office Joseph shaw p M in Dekalb county said office supplied
from avon by said post master and pains point office Mr stinson p M supplied from
sycamore that the inhabitants on this rout have sufficed[...?] serious inconvenenteies & trouble by reason of the nun establishing of of a mail
rout as above set forth and post offices at a more convenient distances most of the
inhabants on this rout have ^living^ from ten to fifteen miles from post offices and your pentioners would request that
a mail rout [should?] be estabseshed as soon as may be on said rout and in duty bound would ever pray
Thomas Stinson | |
Jona Butterfield | Augustus Austin |
M. Bowen | Amos Drummond |
Isac Bowen | John Drummons |
Calvin D Luckey | A W Reike |
Johnathath L Stratford | Wm Bass |
C Henry Dayton | P Madden |
J. P. Gilly | J Martin |
A Hanunm | O Braight |
C Gray | D Zellers |
G Lilley jr | Isaac L. Hawn |
D Lilly | T. C. Wetmore |
L. C. Rounds | Russel Huntley |
Charles Slagle | Henry Chatfield |
Hugh Race | Jerrd M Forbes |
[?] Chester O. D. Murphy | Thomas Paddock |
Chas R Potter | William. D. Street |
David. Potter | John Van [horne?] |
John Austin | John Billmire |
Richard. Haseltine | John Bar |
Jesse Conaway | Aaron Bell |
John C Forbes | Jackson Cooley |
Samuel Taylor | John Cooley |
Nathaniel Lilly | John [Carvet?] |
John Austin | Martin Billmire |
Jno Collier | Least Reynolds |
F. Thomas West | |
James A Baker | John M Goodel |
D. F. Miller | John R Merrill |
John Foley | E B Chamberlin |
Josepf keller | Harvey Kerrick |
George W. Mitchell | |
Aaron H. Johnson | Levi Dummons |
T. A. Cunningham | Samuel Kendel |
Lyman Merrill | Daniel Moot |
A. R Toms | |
John Pepper | |
John M Johnson | Joorge Davis |
J S. Andrews | Timothy Richardson |
Daniel W Grimes | Abial Richardson |
Elijah Tilton | |
B F Parmer | |
Joseph Richardson |
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Illinois
Mr Wentworth presented the petition of citizens of Dekalb Co from St Charles, Kane Co, via Fairfield at Henry Warne’s Line P. O. DeKalb Centre, Broadie’s Grove Paine’s Point to Grand Detour
Mr Wentworth presented the petition of citizens of Dekalb Co from St Charles, Kane Co, via Fairfield at Henry Warne’s Line P. O. DeKalb Centre, Broadie’s Grove Paine’s Point to Grand Detour
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February 6 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post office & Post Roads.
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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,