The petition of the subscribers residing on and adjacent to the Stage Road leading from Key Port via Holmdel and Colt’s Neck to Squankum in the County of Monmouth and state of New Jersey, Respectfully, sheweth:

That said Stage route connects at Key Port with the daily mail route between New York and Freehold, the county seat of said county of Monmouth. That your petitioners have no other convenient means of communication by mail ^than^ what is furnished by said route. That a private mail has been carried upon the same for the last two years, greatly to the accommodation of your petitioners and of the public. That a public mail route intersecting this one at Colts Neck has lately been discontinued by order of the Post Master General, leaving the office at Colts Neck as was formerly the office at Holmdel entirely dependent upon this route. That the distances on said route are from Key Port to Holmdel 6 miles to Colts Neck 5 and to Squankum 7 total 18 miles: And that your petitioners believe that the revenue of said route will fully pay for the transportation of the mail:

Therefore your petitioners pray your Honorable bodies that the above mentioned road be declared a post road, according to the intent and meaning of the Laws of the united states establishing Post offices and Post Roads.