We, the undersigned, your petitioners, ask your Honor to grant us a mail route, from Eastport, in the county of Tishomingo and state of Mississippi, to Fulton, in the county of Itawamba and state aforenamed. The mail to be carried in two-horse hacks, twice a week.

Your petitioners would represent to your Honor that the distance from Eastport to Fulton is about fifty-five miles, and that Eastport is situated on the Tennessee river, at the head of unobstructed navigation, and that most of the cotton and other produce of the counties of Tishomingo and Itawamba [are?] shipped from Eastport, and much of the cotton and other produce of the counties of Pontotoc, Tippah, and Monroe, ^in Mississippi^ are shipped from the same point, and alson several counties in the state of alabama ship largely from this point Your petitioners would further show your Honor that most of the goods, wares, and merchandise brought to the counties of Tishomingo and Itawamba, are received and forwarded from Eastport, and a large portion also, of the goods, wares, and merchandise brought into the other aforenamed counties, are received and forwarded from Eastport, and that, owing to the vast amount of business done at Eastport, and the constant communication of the people living South and East, with that point, we are in great need of

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mail facilities, but more particularly of the one asked for in this petition. Your petitioners would still further show that the route asked for, would intersect, at Fulton, the stage line from Columbus Mississippi to Tuscumbia, Alabama, would cross the stage line from Memphis Tennesse to Tuscumbia Alabama, via. Holly Springs, and will intersect, at Eastport Mississippi the stage line from Huntsville, Alabama to Memphis, Tennessee, via. Boliver. Your petitioners are clearly of opinion that the route asked for in their petion, would be the most important one that could be established in any portion of our country, and would afford more facilities to a larger number of the citizens of our surrounding country. The premises considered &c1 and the petition granted &c, and your petitioners, will, as in duty bound, &c.

Having [great?] confidence in you, your friends [have?] thought it best to send you this petition, taking it for granted that you will obtain for us the route we ask if it is obtainable. You will make what use, you may find best, of this petition and the names subscribed in obtaining the object.