To the Honorable Cave Johnson, P. M. Genl
We the undersigned, citizens of Wells and Allen Counties, in the State of Indiana,
would respectfully represent, that a Mail Route from Bluffton^,^ in Wells County to Fort Wayne, in Allen County would be a matter of great interest
to the citizens of said Counties, (the distance being twenty four Miles, and each
of the above named towns being County Seats.) Said Mail to run weekly: Leave Bluffton
every friday and return from Fort Wayne every Saturday.
We therefore respectfully ask the establishment of the above named route, and your
petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray, &c.
| C. T. Melsheimer | Wm Strode |
| Lewis [?] | Nelson Kellogg |
| Levi Young | Wm H J Covert |
| William Studabaker | John Barr |
| Daniel Miller | William R Winters |
| Jac Tilman | Jonathen Ridgley |
| Addison C. Randall | John H Russ |
| John Plessinger | David Ely |
| James Burwell | W. A. Jackson |
| S. D. Upton | James Jackson |
| S. F Webb | |
| Stephen Cole | Obediah Hartman |
| John A. Deane | Thomas Boden |
| David Lafferty | William Wismen |
| Elison Covert | Hm R Ferguson |
| H. M. Russ | Eliphalet Watts |
| George Grove | Wm Fancannon |
| Nath. Batson | Thomas Galyean |
| John H Moore | J. C. Scott |
| John. Studabaker | |
| Engle Starr | |
| William McBride | Samuel Decker |
| Samuel Mills | Francis C Brown |
| R C Burnet | T. L. Wisner |
| Daniel Masterson | |
| Bowen Hale | George Raynolds |
| Samuel Cleveland | Thos. W. Vanhorn |
| John P Connet | |
| J. A Williams | Ancil Beach |
| G. F. Brown | Erastus. E. Hathaway |
| Levi Washburn | Abraham W. Johnson |
| Reuben Shepherd | Adnah. Hall |
| Moses Arnold | |
| William Stahl | Tho C Burling |
| Almon Case | |
| James Connett | Michael Miller |
| N Mendenhall | David Burgner |
| Wm Whitener | |
| James. L. Russel | |
| William. J. Goodyear | Wm Masterson |
| Wilson Deam | Wilson McFarren |
| Paul Collins | Oliver Van Emon |
| Isaac Entsmenger | J. Laurene Hull |
| Abraham McDowell | Thomas Grove |
| John W Higgins | Joseph Grove |
| Simon B. Smith |
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Petition of C. F. Melsheimer and eighty eighty one others Citizens of Wells and Allen Counties ^Ind.^ praying, that a Post Rout may be established from Bluffton in Wells County to Fort Wayne in Allen County.
Petition of C. F. Melsheimer and eighty eighty one others Citizens of Wells and Allen Counties ^Ind.^ praying, that a Post Rout may be established from Bluffton in Wells County to Fort Wayne in Allen County.
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February 14, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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Rockhill of Indiana
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Petition of C. F. Melsheimer, and ^sundry^ others ^sundry^ Citizens of We^lls^ and Allen Counties ^Ind.^ praying the establish a Post rout from Bluffton to Fort Wayne.
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Committee on the Post office and Post roads
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,