State of Ia
Steuben County
January 1848
The distance from West Unity Ohio to Angola Indiania is thirty Miles
Steuben County
January 1848
We the undersigned citisens of State & county aforesaid: do respectfully ask congress now in session to establish a mail route from West Unity in Williams County Ohio to Angola in this County thence West to Lagrange centre: Which will connect a present break in the route through this country
| Geo W Balding | Leland. H. Stocker |
| J. J. Mugg | William. L. Orton |
| [C?]. Jackson | Thomas Gale |
| Thos B. Morse | George W. McCounell |
| Robert L Douglass | Daniel. M. Gale |
| H. S. Perkins | David. [Chard?] |
| H. T. Miner | John Russell |
| Levi [Chard?] | Reuben B Hopkins |
| Adams Knott | L. F. Hopkins |
| W. Carkhuff | Charles Campbell |
| H. T. Newell | A: R: Hamlin |
| David Murray | |
| H. B. Dauah | J C Aldrick Post Master |
| John C Hopkins | Justin Darling |
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| IIsaac Thompson | Gere. L. Joodal |
| George Walker | Daniel P hummel |
| A C. Gilmore | Garr Waller |
| Joseph Kirk | A Letcher |
| A. Gale | D Waller |
| M Cary | George Rummel |
| Wm Crafford | Georg. Letcher |
| John L. Cary | Henry Letcher |
| W M. Cary | Henry Hall |
| [?] | John Carlan |
| Herod Stocking | Joseph Bennett |
| George [?] | David K jones |
| Daniel Divelbess | Moses [Romany?] |
| Abel Cary | Tolman Pryor |
| S. T. Cary | Andrew Anderson |
| T M. Robinson Twin Key | Wm E Sergeant |
| W S Johnston | Asa T Beebe |
| B Hettdrake | William Huston |
| Francis [Sowte?] | Henry Rummel |
| C. Julius Treygang | Jonathan Beard |
| J A Jackson | William Cammeron |
| Calvin Powers | Robert Carlin |
| Ebenezer Johnson | [?] Barrow |
| M F Morse | Bemett C Goodale |
| Daniel Highe | Wm Letcher |
| Rufus Merriman | David Trowbridge |
| Lorren Meriman | S C Coomen |
| John W Merritte | |
| William Cooper | Joseph Ruves |
| Eliphelet W Day | Joseph Goodale |
| William Waller | Robert Moore |
| Hariman [?] | Findley [ McGraw?] |
| Jacob Waller | |
| Jesse Waller | Robert J Covey |
| Oliver Burch Jr | |
| Helban Trobridge | |
| Ananias Mc Mellan | Benadick Covey |
| John H Hanah | Oliver Burch |
| Dexter Sutton | |
| John Boyers | |
| Robert Smith M D | |
| [Loreila.?] A. Day | |
| Wm. G. Patee | |
| John Cameron | |
| Corydon Crooks | |
| Andrew Croy | |
| Walter Trobridge |
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Petition to Congress for Post Route
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Indiana
petition of of George W. Balding and sundry other Citizens of Steuben County Indiana praying the esablishment of a Post. Rout, from West Unity, in ohio. to La Grange Centre, in In Indiana, by way of Angola, in Stewben county Ind.
petition of of George W. Balding and sundry other Citizens of Steuben County Indiana praying the esablishment of a Post. Rout, from West Unity, in ohio. to La Grange Centre, in In Indiana, by way of Angola, in Stewben county Ind.
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March 3, 1848
Referred to the Committee on the Post office &. and Post. Roads.
Referred to the Committee on the Post office &. and Post. Roads.
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Right
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Presented by
Rockhill, of Ind.
Rockhill, of Ind.
Handwritten Document Signed, 3 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,