To the Honorable Post Master General
We the Citizen’s of Lasalle, Peru, Troy Grove, and Four mile Grove of Lasalle County
and Paw-Paw Grove of Lee County respectfully ask your honour to Establish a Horse
back mail Route from Lasalle in Lasalle County to Paw-Paw Grove in Lee County by the
way of Troy Grove and Four mile Grove, or for a continuation of the now present Route
from Lasalle to Troy Grove, on to Paw-Paw Grove by the way of Four mile Grove, all
for which we ^will^ ever pray
Lasalle County Ill. January 10th 1848.| John Rose | |||
| James Tyler | John M Pastg[?] | ||
| Dominicus Mitchell | 55 | Crosby Mitchell | |
| Jedediah Thomas | John [K?] Robison | ||
| 5 | [Andrew?]’ Mitchell | Allen Carnahan | |
| Stephen N. Bunker | Joel Morison | ||
| Obed W Bryant | Janus Little | ||
| John Bryer | 60 | Daniel Briggs | |
| Samuel Gameison | D V Christiann [P?] M Malugens grove |
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| 10 | Ferdinand Lindsey | ||
| George Hatzler | James, C, Heath | ||
| John R Guff | Jonathan Melngin | ||
| James Cunningham | Johnson Whaley | ||
| Thomas Foley | 65 | Robert Hopkins | |
| 15 | James Reilly | George Towne | |
| John Mcgovern | charles pettier | ||
| Saml G Haight | Sylvester smith | ||
| Charles McLean | John gilmore | ||
| John Galloway | 70 | David A Town | |
| 20 | Joseph Linsey | Isaac Harding | |
| C[?] [ |
Lester Harding | ||
| Evins Adrian | Hosea R Town | ||
| Thomas Kaferty | Richard Molony | ||
| Willard Hastings | 75 | Wm W McLaughlin | |
| Wm H Robinson | S. A. Brown | ||
| 25 | Philo Hinkston | Henry Van Paterson | |
| Josiah Sprague | Loftus Alvord | ||
| Caleb M Robinson | A. P. Allen | ||
| Augustin M Robinson | Daniel Bordman | ||
| Issachar Robinson | William D. Cole | ||
| 30 | James Goble | Timothy Goble | |
| Charles L Goble | Harrison W Rice | ||
| E. P Goble | Daniel. H. Pine | ||
| Edwin Ellsworth | B. F Balon | ||
| Joseph Martin | Isac Griffin | ||
| 35 | H. G. O. Drake | Hiram Wood | |
| Gorge Walton | PM | ||
| A L Osborn | at Paw Paw Grove | ||
| [?] Wheeler | Lee Co Ill | ||
| Willam Morris | |||
| 40 | Joseph Stowell | ||
| Edward B Stowell | |||
| H Town | |||
| C. L. Wixom | |||
| H W. Wixom | |||
| 45 | S E Rogers | ||
| T. L. George | |||
| Nathan Scovel | |||
| L E Miner | |||
| L Adans | |||
| 50 | H Holcomb | ||
| C B. Foster | |||
| R. H. Wixom | |||
| John Clark |
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The Petitions of John Rose and 89 others ^Citizens^ Lasalle and Lee cots praying for a Mail Route from Lasalle in the State of Illinois to Rockford in the same State
The Petitions of John Rose and 89 others ^Citizens^ Lasalle and Lee cots praying for a Mail Route from Lasalle in the State of Illinois to Rockford in the same State
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Reffered to the committee on Post Offices and post Roads
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Thos Turner
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February 7. 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads
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Turner
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