T To the[...?] Hon Sennate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled
we your petitioners of Winebago of the County of Burow County and State of Illinois would beg leave to represent that we Suffer great inconvenience and privations for the want of a Mail route commencing at Perue in the State of Illinois (via) Princeton, Winebago, York Town—Washington Street, Benington, Crandalls Ferry from thence passing down Rock River on the north Side to Atica Fairport, Gortons Grove, Pleasant Vally, to Rock Island we would further represent that this Section of Country above mentioned is nearly all destitute of Mail facility and nearly all of the route a well populated Country. we tharefore ask for the above mentioned Mail route to be Established and your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray
Names Names
John Marvill
David Woodward George Goyer
G W Sheldon Ephraigm Fellows
H [Anderhill?] John Harrison
John McKenzie John Coleman
[...?] Jacob Eastlick
LLLewis H Burroughs William Marvill
Moses Hunt[?]r Joseph Goyer
Jacob Curley
Jacob Omstead Jr
J[...?] Jacob Omstead William Coleman
William Stryker
Thomas Stryker Norman Hall
Jacob Sells George wilcox
James L Sloan Barholm Woodard
James Cain Whitcher Dowd
Thomas [Paten?] D [Weaitey?]
Rufus H. Sheldon

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Illinois
The Petition of David Woodward and forty others ^Citizens of Burow Co^ praying for a mail Route from Peru via Princeton and Crandall’s ferry to Rock Island in the State of Illinois
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February 28 1848
Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads
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Thos J Turner
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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,