Tyrone Michigan May 13th 1848To the Honorable Cave Johnson Post Master General
We your petitioners pray that you consider the wants of the people of this Town and
would [grant?] a post rout from the Village of Brighton in Livingston county through the Towns of
Hartland and Tyrone to Fentonville in Genesse county [the?] we would further pray that you would remove the Tyrone Post Office to a more central
point on said proposed rout accommodating thereby nineteen of the population of said
Town to the present Office accommodating one. The old one as it now stands or is,
located in the north west corner of the Town is of little importance to the people
of TyroneIf the prayer of this petition should be granted so far we would further request the
location of the post Office to be on the east half of the south east quarter of Sec 21 in said Town of Tyrone and would recommend the name of James [Cormer?] on location as aforesaid as post master
Yours RespectfullyWm D [Snapp?] | P. B. Cranston | H. M. Rhodes |
Thomas Love | Hermon I Cranston | |
David Austin | Gilbert Cranston | |
John T Salsbury | Eli. D. Cranston | |
[Erastus?] Merritt | Peter Schal | |
Amos a [Sak?] | Eli Conklin | |
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Charles Hooker | Lafayette Chase | |
John G Burnham | M. C. Chase | |
Wm Dawson | Albert Horner | |
David [Colwell?] | Caleb Cranston | |
Dyer Beebe | Nathan Chase | |
Peter Dates | ||
Benjamin C Miner | H C Hodges | |
Josiah Turner | Norman W Hodges | |
Charles Blackinton | ||
John Kenyon Jr | Wm Blackinton | |
Jacob Chriswell | ||
Peter Russel | ||
Alonzo Slayton |
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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,