Lasalle County Illinois
February 1 1848To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in Congress Assembled
February 1 1848To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in Congress Assembled
The petition of undersigned citizens of Lasalle county Respectfully Represents, that
your honorable bodies, will establish a Post Rout commencing at Peru in Lasalle county
and from thence via of Hamer to Earlville, to intersect the Post Rout now established
from Ottawa to Paw Paw Grove, a distance of about twenty two miles, There is now a
county road located on the proposed Post rout and generally settled the whole distance,
as in duty bound your petitioners would ever pray:
| Jarvis Swift | Geo Mann Jr | |
| Henry A. Swift | Nathaniel Cook | |
| Isaac Hardy | Lyman Cook | |
| G. W. Shepard | Amos. Foster | |
| D. L. Hough | Martin Foster | |
| Philo Lindley | C. H. Sutphen | |
| John McIntyre | ||
| Freeman Mills | ||
| Danl OSullivan | ||
| D M Baker | ||
| A. Hawthorn | ||
| D W [Snead?] | ||
| Theron D Brewster | ||
| H. S. [?] | ||
| E. Higgins. | ||
| Lambert V Skinkle | ||
| Wm Paul | ||
| John P Thompson | ||
| McHenry Davis | ||
| A. Mc. [Phecbran?] | ||
| A McClaskey |
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Petition of the citizens of LaSalle Co for a mail route from Peru via Troy Grove,
Earlville & Four Mile Grove to Paw paw Grove, Ills.
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April 3, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads.
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Com of P, O, & P. R.
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Mr. Wentworth
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,