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
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February 6 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post office & Post Roads.
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Wentworth

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,