To the Honorable the House of Representatives and Senate in the Congress of the United
States.
Whereas the people of the Honeyoye and part of the Gennesse Valeys Part in the County
of Potter and State of Pennsylvania and part in the County Allegany and State of New
York are subjected to great inconvenience on account of there being no Post Office
convenient of access (the most of the people having to travel from seven to fifteen
miles to a Post Office) We the Undersigners Inhabitants of said valies petition your
Honorable body to grant that a mail rout be established in manner described as follows:
That is to commence near the intersection of the Honeyoye Valey road with the Post
road from Olean to Caudersport in the town of Sharon Thence to the vicinity of [McKays?] grist mill neare the Gennesse forks. Thence to Wellsville intersecting the mail
rout from Angelica to Whitesville making a distance in all of about twenty seven miles.
For which your petitioners will ever pray.
| George W. Sherman | John Voorhees |
| Daniel Dunham | |
| W. M. Smith H. C. Goodrich |
Geo. J. Adams Post Master [Germtown?]PA |
| James C. Moore | Joseph Morse Late P.M. |
| Moses Baker | E. McDougall |
| G. B. Gillett | Darius Wheeler |
| Robinson Thayer | Elijah Elmer |
| V. P. Carter | Calvin Scott |
| M. M. Kinsler | Nelson Peabody |
| Jabez Burdick | Geo. M. Kenyon |
| F. W. Leonard | |
| [F. N. ?]Smith | Stephen [Maxson?] |
| Nelson Smith | |
| L. H. Wright | [Eranben Heyue?] |
| E. C. Green | Samuel Easter |
| John [Barwathe?] | WmP. Sampson |
| William Wakeley | |
| N. W. Adams | Wm Bell |
| William Smith |
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Pennsylvania ^New York^Petition of citizens of Potter county [Pena?] praying for a mail route from the intersection of the Honeyoye Vally road with the
Olean & Caudersport road via [McKays?] Grist Mill via the Gennesse forks via Whitesville to Wellsville New York
Ref to com on post office & post roads
Ref to com on post office & post roads
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February 9, 1848 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,