We the undersigned Inhabitants of the towns, of Lorraine, Rodman, and Pinkney[,] for some forty years having suffered the inconvenience of living at some distance from a Post Office, say from five to to ten miles from the nearest Office[,] We therefore respectfully petition your honors ^Hon Body^ to grant us a mail rout from Lorraine village ^Jeff Co^ to Copenhagen village in Lewis County a distance of about 18 miles and grant us three post offices on said route one at Jeffersonville ^Worth Vill^ in the second township of Lorraine, one at [Lucus’s?]corners ^Jackson Vill^ in the town of Pinkney, and ^one^ at ^Boyingtons Corners^ Pinkney center in Lewis Co. Said proposed mail route will accommodate at the present time between two and three hundred families, living on said 2^d town of Lorraine and on the south side of Rodman and in the town of Pinkney, Lewis County N.Y. A portion of said route is newly settled and the population is increasing more or less yearly, In view of the inconvenience under which we labour by being so far from a post office We humbly pray, your honors ^Hon Body^ to grant us our request Andif so we wish you to appoint Daniel Wilcox postmaster at Jeffersonville, ^Worth Ville^ Jeff Co N.Y. John [Lucus?] post master at [Lucus?] corners ^Jackson Ville^Pinkney,Lewis Co, N.Y,And A Boynton atBoyntonsCorners PinkneyLewis Co NY