The undersigned citizens of the Counties of Will & Iroquois in the state of Illinois beg leave respectfully to represent that the want of Mail facilities on the south side of the Kankakee & Iroquois Rivers is a serious inconvenience to the inhabitants who have formed dense & numerous settlements in this district & many of whom have to travel ten or fifteen miles to reach a Post Office & to cross the rivers above named which are often impassible. Your petitioners therefore pray that a Post Route be Established from Wilmington in Will County by Horse creek. Yeats, Hawkins settlement, Sammons & Spring Creek to Middleport in Iroquois County & Your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c