State of Ohio Williams County Jan. 1848.
We the undersigned, citizens of the state & Co. aforesaid, do respectfully ask Congress
now in session to establish a mailroute from West-Unity in Williams Co, O. to Angola,
Steuben Co. Ia, to go from West-Unity to Montpelier thence west till it strikes the
Maumee & Angola State-Road thence west on said road to & by Spring-Lake Post-Office
& Ferrier’s Mill on to Angola, which will connect a break prevent the delays of Mailmatter by being sent on direct & not as at present sent
in a different direction & then back again
| Names of signers | Names of signers | |
| J. A. Simon (P M) spring Lake | David Thomas | |
| Moses Thomas | John Allomong | |
| Joseph W Thomas | George Gifford | |
| Benjamin Thomas | Richard Sinkey | |
| Martin Perky | Orsamus palmer | |
| William Kent | James [Deming?] | |
| William Milland | James McClain | |
| Thomas Sinkey | Thomas Matthews | |
| Joseph Clayton | John Young | |
| Wm McClellan | ||
| John Anspaugh | Joseph Palmer | |
| Henry Hall | W B. Newman | |
| Jesse Morgan | George H Philips | |
| [?] | [?] Cain | |
| Adin Squier | Joseph Phillops | |
| B, C, Prekle | Robert Ogle | |
| Thomas Ogle | George Deck | |
| John Barcalo | Abraham Sinkey | |
| Francis Squire | William Russell | |
| John G [Maughermee?] | E [Cooper?] | |
| William Gillis | [H N, Clark?] | |
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| [V?] N, Clark | ||
| E Cooper | ||
| John Brown Jr | ||
| J H Squire | ||
| Joshua Clark | ||
| Daniel Klingaman | ||
| Benjamin Griffith | ||
| William Neer | ||
| John Bigg | ||
| [?] Newman | ||
| Augustus Porter | ||
| David Lash |
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Ohio
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Citizens of Williams Co, Ohio. for a mail rout from West unity by Spring Lake ^in ohio^ to Angola in Michigan
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Refered to the comt on post offices and Post Road
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March 4, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads.
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Mr Sawyer
Handwritten Document Signed, 4 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,