To The Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in Congress
we the undersigned Petitioners would Respectfully Represent To your Honarable Body that the Mail Route Leading from Richmond To Farwest via Kingston [to?] [?]ed and [Stoped?] from Kingston To Farwest That Greatly Hinders The promt arrival of the mail ^Letters^ and papers in [Due?] Time that we would Request To Have the Route from Richmond Continuwed To Farwest To Maysville via Gentryville To athens and also a Route from Gallatin
via Maysville To St Josephs and Back weekly we are Laboring under Great Disadvantages
from Non arrival of the Mails we in Duty Bond will Ever pray
| [E W?] Chappelle | |
| N H Skidmore | Thomas Brooks |
| Wm [W?]alls | J Man[ing?]ton |
| Jas Presley | J H Evans |
| [M?] H Ritchie | James Hunter |
| Thomas Davis | John Brockingham Jr |
| S J Brown | [D Y?] Hunter |
| John W McCrea | O B [Speed?] |
| J N [Stambaugh?] | S C Rogers |
| [?] Isaac G[?]ens | Jas Brown |
| John Fletcher | Thos Brown |
| James Grant P M | G R McKnight |
| D M Charters | [Kerston?] Shepperd |
| Abner H[en?]dson | Greenfield Mathews |
| William Coen | Jacob Bradford |
| Elias Panett | A M Lauson |
| John Brown Jr | John F Doherty |
| L S Young | Elijah Hendson |
| J M Davis | Jas M Skidmore |
| Daniel Coyt | S B Mint |
| Jeremiah Pryer | Samuel Wood |
| N Redin[ger?] | Andrew Conilison |
| Newton Cowen | S C Brownfield |
| Hugh Caldwell | J R Gruner |
| H R Hodge | James A Greene |
| John Hunter | John M Smith |
| Jesse Morris | John Williams |
| Henry Hunter Jr | John A Dean. |
| Jonathan Dowell | Elias Williams |
| Jesse Whiteaker | |
| Edward Smith | |
| Jas Whiteaker | |
| Wm A Wright | |
| William Hunter | |
| William Colleyer | |
| Henry Hunter sen | |
| John Brown sen |
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02/28/1848February 28 1848
county and circuit court Mo.
02/28/1848February 28 1848
we the undersigned Certify the above To be Truly Copied from a Petiion Signed By the above named Persons
A H Skidmore Sheriff [?]James Grant J. P.J. M. Arrington clerk DeKalb county and circuit court Mo.
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Missouri
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Petition of citizens of De Kalb County
for two new Mail Routes
for two new Mail Routes
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This petition to be refered to committee on Post offices & Post Roads.
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March 31, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads
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W P Hall
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W P. Hall
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,