your Petitioners Respectfully Represent that they are very desirous to have a post office established at the house of John G. Jones^s at or near the mouth of Hewits creek a branch of the spruce, fork of Little Cole river in the County of Boone ^Virginia^ to be called the spruce fork Post office. they further represent that in the neighborhood of that place there is a new and growing settlement which would be exceedingly benefitted by the establishment of such an office especially by affording to the citizens such faculties in the receipt of news papers public documents and other papers as to enable them to avail themselves of the useful intelligence they usually furnish your petitioners further state that the place proposed lies to the left of the present rout of the mail from Ballardsville Post office to Chapmansville post office and they further state that the place proposed lies on the main state road from Kanawha to Logan court house which road was located this last fall.

and your Petitioners are very desirous that the mail rout would be changed so as to go by the proposed office from Kanawha to Logan C Ho ^Va^ and return by Chapmansville as the present mail carier lives nearly on the road by the proposed office and it would suit him much better to go or return by home, the distance from Ballardsville to the place proposed is about Eleven miles and from Logan C Ho virginia is about fourteen miles and from Chapmansville is about fourteen miles and the inhabitants within Two miles is about Twenty five and the road via) of the proposed office is five miles nearer

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from Kanawha to Logan c Ho than to go by chapmansville and its is equally as good

Your Petitioners further state that [Bartholomew Holden?] ^Greenville Nelson (sen)^ is a very suit^a^ble person to discharge the duties of Post master and we have no doubt he is competent as well as honest Your Petitioners therefore hope that their request which they deem reasonable will be granted and they are not aware of any rule or principle of the department under which it must be denied to them