Your petitioners citizens of the County of Pocahontas and state of Virginia resideing on and near the Waters of Back ^Knapp^ Creek in said County respectfully represent, that they labor under many inconveniences for the want of a Mail route passing through their settlement and the establishment of a Post-Office therein. Your petitioners in asking that mail route No between Huntersville and Slavens ^or Travellors Repose^, may be changed so as to pass up Knapps Creek, think that they ask nothing more than they are entitled ^to^. on the proposed route there is a large settlement in comparison to the route on which ^the^ Mail is now Carried. the population on that route being very sparse. On the present route the population is so thin, that there is no Office until you reach Matheusville, the first settement of any Notice, and a distance of Fourteen Miles from Huntersville. On the Knapps Creek route, at the distance of 10 Miles, at Moore’s, you would would be the Centre of a much larger settlement, and in passing through this settlement, the Mail would still be delivered at all the Offices, on the present route between Huntersville & Travellors repose, and would accommodate your petitioners, who now have to travell to Huntersville the nearest Post Office to them, and a distance varying from 6 to 15 Miles whilst the proposed change would only increase the present Route ^between Huntersville & Travellers Repose^ five Miles, and afford the accommodation aforesaid, without discommoding any persons or persons.

Your petioners respectfully ask that the proposed change in the route No , between Huntersville & Travellers repose may be made, that a post-office may be

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established at Isaac Moores, on said Creek to be known by the name of Knapps Creek and that Moses Moore [Esq?], may be appointed Post Master, at said Office.

And as &c