To the Honorable the Representative of the United States in Congress Assembled,
[MAR 1?] Hon William DuerM. C. Washington DC
We the Undersigned Petioners beg Leave to State to your Hon Body that we live in the Town of Amboy and Constantia in the County of Oswego and
State of New york, and Laourbing under much inconveinence in consequence of not having the mail pass through our place but once a week, and
then the office being so remote ^from^ us and where we seldom have business to call us, would beg leave to Petition your
[...?]Honorable Body to establish a Cross Mail Route Leading from Williams Town Post office
in a Southerly direction to a Place formerly known by Amboy Corners to intersect a
rout leading from Mexico to Camden, and by establishing such a Rout, would give us
the mail twice a week instead of once, but as it now is, Letters and papers though
of ever so much importance lie over in the office at Camden office at Camden nearly one week before we receive them, and further if your Hon. body thinks propper to establish such a rout we wish the department to establish a Post Office at Amboy
Corners by the name of Manor and also to have Jonathan Randal appointed Post Master
and in duty bound your petioners would every Pray
Dated at Amboy this 29th Feby 1848.Jonathan Randal | John Jamieson 3d |
Aroan Hall | Walter Coats |
Joshua Hall | John G Louis |
Wm Darling | Ezra Hall |
Solomon Baker | Wm D. Parke |
Conel Steel | Lemuel Abell |
Errol Ybell 2nd | Walter Wilson |
Joseph Gibbons | Deloss Rondall |
C M Randal | William, [Seargeant?] |
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CAMDEN N. Y. [MAR 1?] Hon William DuerM. C. Washington DC
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New York
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Petition of sundry [...?] residents of the towns of Amboy and Constanti[a] in Oswego County, New York, praying for the establishment of a mail route from
Williams town to Amboy Corners
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March 6, 1848, Referred to the committee on the Post office & Post Road
by Mr Duer
by Mr Duer
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Referred to Com. on Post-offices & post roads
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Duer
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,