you will recive with this letter petitions for new Post offices, and a new Post Rout in this county. We who live on this rout, I assure you, suffer much inconvenience by our distance from the Post offices, at present established, and are very anxious to have more convenient ones established. If the Post rider who carries the mail on the Westchester Road, returns by the proposed new rout, it will add 5 miles to the distance, and through a densely peopled country abounding with factories and other waterworks. chas. Kelly, at Kelly’s ville has in his employment including families of those employed about, 1000 souls and there are seven other factories, some of them very large, all within one mile, of the proposed new office So that I think, it cannot be otherwise, that the rout, if established, will be profitable. I have made a rough drf^t of that part of the county and laid [down?] the proposed rout on it, which accompanies the Petitions. If you are any at a loss, in understanding it from your slight knowledge of our county, if you will call on your colleg M^r M^cIlvaine, who is a native of this county, he can explain any difficulties that may arise. If you will be so kind as to give a little attention to this business you will much oblige a number of your constituents in Delaware county.