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To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled
The petition of the subscribers living upon the proposed route would respectfully ask that a mail route be established leading from Mt Carroll way Pleasant Valley to Howardsville.
We ask this believing that such a route is needed and knowing that it would supply settlements with mail matter now destitute, and living remote from any mail route, & therefore that such route be established your Petitioners will ever pray.
Thomas Harrison Stephen Johnson
uriah Green L Butterfield
Wm M. Beaird Peter Gunselly
W. C. Ward William Lyon
Asahel [Moer?] Charles North
Andrew Millett William Whitson
Almon Byrum. Francis Dixon
Isaac Rand Orange Gray
Samuel B Gates
William Shed Martin Millett
Wm Millet Edgar Gunsly
William Brown H D [Famel?]
Truman Beardsley T. W. Glasspoole
Jeptha Byram Albert Pickering
Samuel Tyrrell S Laurence
Isaac Lyon John [Boill?]
Joseph Moore Thomas Gates
M Tenney
John Deeds John Bishop
Jonas Parkinson Peter Bishop
George [Mackhamer?] Wm Baker
Orin Gray Peter M [Fulton?]
Peter Yohn Horace C Bundy
[H Brit?] Samuel L Butler
[?] Alden Tyrrell
[Wm?] [Gallapin?]
J. C. Vandelinder
A Dixson
Jonas [Wolf?]
The [honr?] T. J. Turner will carry it through and oblige your petitioners.
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citizens of Mt Carroll, Illinois
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The Petition of Thomas Harrison and many others praying for a Mail Route from Mt Carroll Illinois to Pleasant Valley and Howardsville in the same State
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April 25, 1848 Reffered to the Comte ^on^ the Post Offices and Post Roads.
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Thos J Turner

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,