To the Hon. Congress of the United States
We the undersigned would respectfully request that your Hon. body would establish a Post Route, Running from Farmington to Mc Comb through Fairview, Ellisville and Virgil, as often as three times a week and return, and your petitioners believe that that such a route would pay more than the expences, as it runs through a thickly Settled and highly cultivated country and that the amount of Business done at the intermediate Towns loudly calls for the establishment of Such a route and as in duty bound your petitioners will ever pray
Names
Names
Geo. Harty H H Garfield
E. D. Smith Eli Milslaker
Rufus Rigdon J. H Anthony
Anson Smith P. Aylsworth
S W [Bioch?] John Schroett.
Wm Edmunson
Joshua B Hamund Resin Lancaster
Thomas Harless
Daniel Ellis Albert E. Thompson
John Galles William Jackson
Eloy Mailliard John Knott
R McFarland Wm Herriot
Amos Leach S Graves
Allen Blout John Griffin
F. A Fisk Joshua Weaver
S. H. Sivley Timothy Colton
Henry L. Moore Benjamin Butler
Oscar T. Moore Asa Hatfield
James Shearer Lafayette Lancaster
Geo Shearer Lemon Bates
James Shearer JR Joseph Sparks
Joseph W Markley
Coonrod Markley Daniel Utsingin
Georg W Lane Martin Williams
John Paine John Heyd
Nath’l Aylsworth
Harman Andrews
[?]
Names Names
Joseph Scofield
E G, Poe O C Nickerson
W. E. Smith Reuben Bales
Luther Curtis Armond Tainter
Levi W Lockwood Layfette Cole
Abel E Carrier G. W. Botkin
Chandler Hollister John H Dunbar
Wm Hencery Erastus Carrier
Enos Curtus Jerome Tripp
Smith D Alden David Griffin
Noah W Dunbar
L Levi Curtis Jacob D. Hond.
Lymon Curtis

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The Petition of 80 Citizens of Illinois praying Congress to establish by Law a Post Route from Farmington via Fairview & Ellisville in Fulton co to McComb in McDonough co
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W A Richardson
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February 15, 1848, Referred to the Committee on the Post office & Post Roads.
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[Post offices?]
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Com on Post Offices & Post Roads
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Richardson

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,