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Mr Luck
Hon Cave JohnsonPost Master General
The undersigned would respectfully represent that there is no direct communication
between Elizabethton Carter County Tennessee and Greenfield Sullivan County Te or
Greenfield & Blountville Sullivan County Te or Blountville & Arcadia Sullivan County
Te or Arcadia & Kingsport Sullivan County Te or Arcadia and the great southern route
and that a mail route from Elizabethton Te by Greenfield Blountville & Arcadia to
Kingsport twice a week (that is leave Elizabethton Friday morning arrive at Kingsport
same evening 35 miles leave Kingsport saturday morning arrive at Elizabethton same
evening) is greatly needed and would add much to the convenience of a large portion
of our Citizens and relying on your sense of justice we respectfully ask that you
order the mail to be carried over the above named route and we will ever pray &c
March 1848| Robert McReynolds | John G Gott | |
| Thomas Tittsworth | William Green | Jeremiah Hughes |
| Robert Green | William Lands | |
| Allen Ketran | Saml Rhea. P. M. Blountville, T. |
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| Watson Catron | John S Faust | |
| Jas G Canes | William [?] | Wm A Boy |
| Adam Moody | Elisha Quillin | J. W Longmore |
| Orrice Phelps | Saml Cagmar | Georg Wolford |
| Jno. H. Obinger | Joab Pence | Jonathan Gross |
| A. P. Lowry | Nathan Green | William H Dickson |
| John Horn | ||
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| Jos M Rhea | ||
| Thomas H Smith | John Anderson | E H Butler |
| Wm Morton | John R Fain | Thos Fain |
| Andrew Mauk | John Hawley | |
| John. W. Catron | Jesse Beard | |
| Jos R Anderson | Thos W; White | |
| Wm B White | L. H. Webb | |
| Wm K. Cross | Samuel King | |
| E. B. Hitran | Wm Hawley | |
| John Himes | Wm N. [Blackman?] | |
| David Woods | A. B. [?] | |
| Jonnathan King | J. W. Thomas | |
| James M Baxter | John Carr | |
| Jos R Anderson | William M Powell | |
| Audly Anderson | David. McClellan | |
| R P Fickle | ||
| Noah Barnes | Wm G Snodgrass | |
| John Horn | Joseph Rogers | |
| Thos Crawford | H. C. Fain | |
| Henry Maggart | Saml Anderson | |
| Isaac E [Drake?] | ||
| W K Yost | C M Raden | |
| Abram H Beard | ||
| John M Galloway | John Lyme P M Kingsport T. |
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| John Lindawood | ||
| Jas Webb | Joseph Lynn | |
| G Cloud | C B Smith |
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03/15/1848Arcadia Te March 15th 1848Hon Andrew JohnsonDr Sir
03/15/1848Arcadia Te March 15th 1848Hon Andrew JohnsonDr Sir
you will please present this petition to the P M General and endeavour to have the
prayer answered from your knowledge of the country you will at once see what we ask
for is greatly needed
respectfully yours &cThos Fainthe number of petitioners could have been increased to any number almost but we did
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6 [ap?] 48—Te.
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Hon A Johnson refers apca of citizens for [2nd?] mail, Elizabethtown to Kingsport, via Greenfield, Blountsville, and Arcadia, (35
miles.)
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answ—12 Apr—not a post route.
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Arcadia Te March 15th
Free
Hon. Andrew JohnsonWashington D.C
Handwritten Document Signed, 4 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,