Honorable Cave Johnson Post Master General
We the subscribers residing between Chicago and Ottawa Illinois on a route north of
the Michigan and Illinois Canal on which route are many Post Offices Do. petition
your honor to establish a mail route direct from Chicago to Ottawa twice or three
times a week. Through Flagg Creek, Cass. Long John, Plainfield, Plattville, and Lisbon
to Ottawa.
Plainfield April 19. 1848| Names | Names |
| H. [T?]. Byington | Wm E. Morgan |
| Hugh Alexander | Jacob R [DePuy?] |
| Leander Hamlin | Geo W Bradley |
| John D Shreffler | |
| John R Kent | N Welch |
| Alonzo Hemstreet | William, C, Bowering |
| Jas Rockafellow | Alexander Tullock |
| James Walker | Handy Metcalf. |
| George W Cooper | B K Norton |
| Wm G. Davis | Cornelius Crowley |
| Almerin Turner | Daniel Wright |
| Horatio N [?] | J. C. Cole |
| George Snoad | [Daniel?] Kennedy |
| George B[?] | A J Coburn |
| T, A. Graham | S. C. Ball |
| William Bump | |
| Hiram Daily | Harvey Wade |
| Erastus Clark Jr | George W Barnes |
| Otis Cutler | Consider Hylan |
| Elijah E, Robinson | Daniel Smith |
| Cyrus Ashley | Richard Belfield |
| Wm V. [Griswot?] | |
| Solomon Simmons | Hiram Graham |
| Jacob S. Becker | |
| C, M, Jacobs | John Becker |
| James R Ashley | S. B. Tyler |
| O. Miles | R. F. Bartlett |
| L[?] Burdick | William Fitch |
| Christopher Stryker | Wm [Touner?] |
| Nelson Van dyke | S. R, Rathburn |
| J Lander |
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Mr Wentworth presented the petition of citizens of Plainfield, Illinois, for the extension of the mail route from Ottawa to Cass through Flag Creek
& Lyons to Chicago
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May 11. 1848 Referred to the the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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Wentworth
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,