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To the Honorable the Postmaster General ^To the Hon. the Senate & Representatives in Congress Assembled^ Sir
Whereas your petitioners labour under considerable difficulties oweing to the want of a direct communication by mail from the city of Washington P.a they would suggest that the mail route which now ends at Smiths ferry be continued on to Ohioville from thence to Darlington all in Beaver Co P.a and on the state road leading from Washington to Darlington, if it please your honor to grant your petitioners there request it will confer a benefit to the community and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray
Feby 9th 1848
John turner
Samuel G [Pownell?]
Alexand Henery B. H, Dawson,
Daniel Dawson Saml [Haverttan?]
William F Kneedler Jno Courtney
Vantle Grove Samuel Reed
Samuel Lyon Wm McCaughtry
Benjamin Todd John M Clure
William D Might Thos J, Hamilton
David Reed J T Boyd Jr
Samuel Todd Hugh Garvin
Benoni Dawson Joseph Court
R D Carothers J Agler
Ruel Reed Robert [?]
George Stephenson John D Vaughan
James Winning William C Plants
John Fisher William B. H. Gaffick
Philip Hill Jonathan G Wolcott
Hugh Shields Saml Smith
Henry Siberts J. C. Gamble
John Douthitt C J [Hackathorn?]
Robert Graham D C Thompson
George Gibson Jesse Smith
I Thompson Isaac Warrick
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Petition of John Turner & 46 other citizens of Beaver co. Pa for the extension of the mail route from Smiths Ferry to Darlington in said county
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March 14, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads
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Post office & Roads
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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,