To the Honorable, the Congress of the United States:
The undersigned, citizens in part of the counties of Madison & Wayne, beg leave to
represent to your honorable body, that they labor under great inconveinence for the
want of Mail facilities,
The section of country which we now ask Congress ^to establish^ one or more Post Offices, is densely settled, and lays between Fredericktown and
Greenville, a distance of over 40 miles, from point to point, through one or the other
of these offices we are compelled to transact our correspondence.
We therefore pray that Congress may establish a new mail route from Fredericktown,
in Madison County, to Lowndes P O, in Wayne county, and that a Post office be established
at the house of Davalt Bollinger in Wayne county, to be called Castor, and that Davalt
Bollinger be appointed P. M.
And your petitioners will ever pray &c.
| E S Saunders | |
| M. N. Wimoth | Washington Miller |
| Henry Rhodes | Andrew Shetlly |
| Jacob Clubly | Eli Sityes |
| Daniel Whitener | M underwood |
| George Brotherton | Miles Whitener |
| James Edward | James Brotherton |
| James M Clubly | Tom P Masterson |
| Moses L Clubly | |
| Moses [Glovis?] | |
| John Rhodes | Peter Shetley |
| Adam Shetley | Michael Sheane |
| John t Whitener | |
| John Kinder | William Watts |
| John hains | Green Watts |
| William Crawner | Joel Gooden |
| solimon Whitner | A. Leong |
| Henry M Whitener | John Siteze |
| Philip D Whitener | |
| John Myers | |
| Jacob shetley | |
| Daywalt bolinger | |
| Davault bolinger | |
| William Darnel | |
| Alford Shetley | |
| William H shetley | |
| Munroe Sitzes | |
| John F. Sitzes | |
| Pinckny Graham | |
| Caleb Hovis | |
| James Rickmon | |
| wade Sitze | |
| Daniel Haynes | |
| John Rea | |
| George Sitze | |
| William Skaggs | |
| Eli Sitze | |
| Henry Mcdoniel | |
| Jacob Best | |
| John Reudisil | |
| Davis Bess | |
| Joseph underwood | |
| Henry Bess | |
| Henry Whitener |
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Mr Bowlin presented under the rule.
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Missouri.
The Petition of M. Underwood and fifty six others ^Citizens of Madison & Wayne Cos mo.^ praying the establishment of a Post ro^u^te, From Fredericktown in Madison County Missouri to Lownds. P. O. Wayne County same state via Davalt Bollinger’s
The Petition of M. Underwood and fifty six others ^Citizens of Madison & Wayne Cos mo.^ praying the establishment of a Post ro^u^te, From Fredericktown in Madison County Missouri to Lownds. P. O. Wayne County same state via Davalt Bollinger’s
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February 7, 1848, Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and post Roads.
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Referred to the Committee on Post offices and Post roads.
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57.
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Bowlin
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Petition for Establishing a New Mail route &c
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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, Â