To the Hon The President of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States now in Congress Assembled
at Washington D.C.
Branch County
Michigan March
27th 1848
We the undersigned Petitioners and Inhabitants of Branch County Michigan do hereby
ask and Petition your Hon Body to ^Establish a mail route from Bronson in said County ^via Gilead^^extend the Mail Routs from the Gillead Post Office in said County, to the Township of Noble. It being the South West corner Township of Branch county, and distant five miles
from Gillead and Eight miles from Bronson Priarie, (directly South) we believe the interests of the Department and your Petitioners
will be materially promoted by so doing, and as in duty bound your Petitioners will
ever Pray &c
Yours RespectfullyDated at NobleBranch County
Michigan March
27th 1848
| [Ambrose?] Hale | |
| Wm Butts | S, C, Rose P. M. |
| Sidney S. Mathews | Emerson Marsh P. M. |
| C R Smith | A Hale |
| Marvin Babcock | E W Craig |
| Walter W. Smith | M Russell |
| C, [T?], [Wheeler?] | John Curtis |
| Egbert Gaines | C Polmiters, |
| Moses [Strong?] | Levi, M, Curtis, |
| Wm [Shaw?] | Stephen Shippy |
| Joseph H Smith, | Ira Lyon, |
| Orin Babcock | Ephraim Bushnell, |
| David Foster | [H C Youmans?] |
| Samuel Croy | John Mathews |
| John Croy | William Milliman |
| D, Willson | Horace Chase |
| M S Bowdish | Solomon Babcock |
| George Taylor | [Zelotes?] Bruce |
| Cyrus Beardsley | Charles Dunham |
| Zebulon Croy | |
| John Lane | S H Cary P M |
| Absalom Richards | |
| S A Richards | [ |
| J, Bogardus | Theron Foster P. M. Coldwater |
| William Willer |
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Petition of citizens of Branch County Michigan, that a Mail route be established from
Bronson in said County to the Township of Noble in the same County.
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May 8. 1848 Referred to the Com^ttee^ on the Po Offices and Post Roads
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Chas E Stuart
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,