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To the honorable Post master general of the ^the Senate & House of Representatives^ of the United States of America.
The petition of the undersigned taxable inhabitants within the delivery of the Post Offices of Greenville and Oak Hill and a proposed office betwen the said Offices located at Norton Hill do respectifully represent.
1 That the establishment of a Mail route between the above named places would be a great convenience to your petitioners most of whom reside at a distance of from three to four miles from the above Offices
2 That owing to the want of communication between the above named Offices a distance of only seven miles you petitioners are under the necesity of sending their Letters by the way of Chesterville a distance of Twenty two miles or by the way of Catskill which is general the most speedy way a distance of fifty miles
3 That the establishment of the proposed route (coresponding with a Map accompaning this document) which would open a direct communication between Schoharie and the western part of Greene County and Coxsackie and would be a great advantage to the inhabitants of the above named places
4. ^that your^ petitionsers believe that such a route established would not only pay its own expenses but that a considerable ^revenue^ beyond such expenses would thereby accrue to the post office department
5 your petitioners therefore respectfully pray that such mail route may be established by the post master General with a post office at Norton Hill two and a half miles from Greenville and four and a half from Oak Hill and that a mail may be carried on such route two days in each week and that said route may be annexed to the Coxsakie and Greenville route
1Amos Pierce P. M
Oak Hill N.YWm Conkling P M.
Greenville NY
John Green Nortonhill William Norton Norton hill
Do
David W. Miller Do Luman Ramsdell Do
Robert Townsend Do Elihu Ingalls Do
Harly Norton Do Benjamin F Hisert Do
Charles Craw Do Smith Griffin Do
Carlos, M Pierce Do Lorenzo Hunt Do
James, S. Hartt Do James M Hallock Do
Eliada Rogers Do
Dexter Stannard Do Russel Stone Do
Platt Barker Do Ezra Allerton Do
John Sarles Do John Miller Do
J B Prevost Do John C Nelson Do
E S Miller Greenville Nehemiah Ramsdell Do
Geo, L, Runall Do
Thomas Rushmore Norton hill Harvey Stone Do
J G W Morrison Do George A St[one?]. Do
Joseph. P. Hallocke Do Alfred defreight. Do
John Hartt Do George Townsend Do
Joel Wicker Do Smith Southard Do
Hunt & Nelson. Coxsackie Franklin Hartt Do
G. Bolsford Greenville Ebenezer Delamater Do
Marcus Griffin Nortonhill John Showers Do
Ezra Burroughs Nortonhill Ambrose Whitford Do
Lyman Stannard Myron Stone Do
Albert Cook Nortonhill James Calhoun Do
Asher Norton Do David Morse Do
Ransom Trane Do Reuben P Gordon Do
Oliver Bryan Do
A. N. Bentley Greenville Harvey Lake Do
Stuard Austin Co[?] Joel [M?] Head Do
Bartlet Ramsdell Do
Enoch Ingalls Do
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New York
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The Petition of certain inhabitants of the county of Greene in the State of N.Y praying for the establishment of a Post rout from Greenville, thro’ Norton-Hill, to Oak Hill.
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March 10, 1848
Referred to committee on ^the^ Post office & Post roads.
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Presented by Mr Silvester.
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28 Feb.
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P H Silvester.
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New Route
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Hon. Mr Silvester
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Hon Mr Sylvester
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[?] [?]owle
1The aforesaid map appears after this text

Handwritten Document Signed, 2 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,