To, the Congress of the United States
We the undersigned Citizens of Pennsylvania respectfully represent, That we labor
under great inconvenience and disadvantage for the want of a post Road ^Rout^ from Providence in Luzerne County to the Milford & Owego turnpike in Pike County
a distance of some thirty miles, we would most Respectfully ask your honourable bodies
to pass a law authorizeing a post route from those points, it would pass through the
Township of Jefferson in Luzerne County where at present they have no mail facilities
^and Hollisters Ville in Wayne Co^ and would shorten the distance from Wilkesbarre to New York city some ten miles,
and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray
| George Foote | Robert. M. Mott |
| Alanson Hollister | W A Hollister |
| James Waite | Conrad D. Webster |
| William Hollister | Andrew Sprengenberg |
| Alanson Stevens | |
| Benj. London | E. Kirkhan |
| Egbert Watrous | C. E. Hall |
| H. V. Mitchell | |
| Harris Hamlin Jr | Chauncey. H. Mitchell |
| Jacob Hizer | R Stanton |
| Charles Peet | Cyprian Cobb |
| La. Fayette W. Rohne | William Wilcox |
| Plat Stevns | |
| Henry H Yager | John H [Baisbey?] |
| Luman Andrews | |
| Henry Stevens | Newton Moore. |
| Aaron Van Camp | Orlander Brown |
| Joseph Hornbaker Junur | M. L. Mitchell |
| Isaac Weldy | Urlin Page |
| Joseph Bird | Jacob Cortright |
| Cyprian Calb Jr | John Fizen |
| John P Mitchell | |
| Andrew, C, Wilber | |
| Ch. [Firsohnsorn?] | Horace Hollister |
| E. L. H. Cobb | Erastus B Hollister |
| Alpheus Hollister | Herschal H Hollister |
| Albert G Hollister |
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Petition of Citizens of Penna asking for the establishment of [...?] a Post Route from Providence in Luzerne County to the Milford & Owego turnpike a
distance of about Thirty miles
Petition of Citizens of Penna asking for the establishment of [
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February 14 1848 Referred to the committee on Post offices and Post Roads.
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Referred to Comme on Post offices & Post roads
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Butler.
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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,