To the Honorable 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 said rout
commencing at [?] st charles Kane county from thence to fairfield from thence [?] [?]ns from thence to Line post office from thence to Huntley Grove from thence to Brody
Grove from thence pains point from thence to oregon city ogle county the distance
is about fifty five miles that there’s but two post office on said rout the Line post
office Joseph shaw p m Dekalb County supplied from avon and pains point office Mr
stinson post master supplied from sycamore the inhabitants on this Rout have suffered
serious inconvence by the nun establishing of a mail rout as above set forth and post
office at a more conveint distances most of the inhabitants on said ^this^ rout living from ten to fifteen miles from a post office and your pertioners would
Request that a mail rout should be established as soon as may be on said rout and
in duty bound would ever pray
Russel Huntley | |
J M Jewell | W G Harvy Williams |
Constant Reynolds | Charles Morgon |
George W [Ferguson?] | Patk Keane |
William D Street | Ziba Morgan |
B W Rathbone | John Mulberry |
Elijah Cooley | W Bowen |
D Biggers | Dexter Pease |
[?] Reynolds | T. C. Wetmore |
[Mills?] Stuart | Nathan [Bothrop?] |
[?] D Earl | |
M H Dimick | P[?] B Earl |
[?]Helleston | James Pasley |
Wm [?] | |
A S Helleston | Elihu Hill |
Joseph Hiland | F Love |
John Hilands | Eli B. Gilbert. |
Lyman B King | G W Love |
E J S Fairbanks | Steven Pan[?]y |
Henry Trumun | Ephm Spalding |
Justin Rolph | Henry Hopkins |
Orlando Carter | Jno Coakley |
Jared Carter | Joshua King |
John Duffey | William Clemans |
Clark Carter | John Drummond |
Smith. D. Baldwin | Charles Dugdi[?]l |
J [?] Chapman | John Whiteman |
J. R [?]itt[?] | |
John M Goodell | L C Burben |
Robert Blake | Lenmon [Hintly?] |
James Blake | Henry Barber |
Clark L Barber | Lyman Barbee |
[Bemig?] Shurburn | George W Lyon |
Nathaniel Lilly | Jonathan Lyon |
Boyd Wilkison | C. L. [?] |
John Wilkison | Jos Clark |
Washington Paddock | Zelina Felt |
Obadiah Merrill | stephen Gledden |
Oysott Lyon | Levi Howard |
Handwritten Document Signed, 1 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,