N^o. 7

the undersigned beg leave respectfully to represent, that under existing mail arrangements in this portion of Virginia, they together with a large portion of the population resideing in the north west of Greenbrier and south east portions of Nicholis, are almost destitute of mail facilities, under the present arrangement the mail Designed for Nicholis court-house and the intervening country is carried to Gauley-Bridge a distance of sixty two miles from Lewisburg from whence it is taken to Sommersville Nicholis court-house a distance of thirty two miles. thus traveling 94-miles to reach a point not exceeding 54 miles from Lewisburg, whilst the intervening country has to depend for their mail facilities in the different Offices upon the rout from Lewisburg to Gailey-Bridge P. O. none of which is nearer than from 6. to 20. miles from a large portion of the undersigned to remidy these inconvenicies, we would respectfully, ask of the department the establishment of a mail rout from Clintonville on the Kanawha turnpike to Nicholes court-house, Establishing an office at John Martins on mill creek 11/4 miles, then one at Jesse Ellises ^Robt M^cCutchen^ on Homeny creek 13 miles from Martins, then one at Jeremiah Odle near Gauley River 10 miles from Ellis ^M^cCutchen^, then to Nicholis court-house, 10 miles (where

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an office is now in full opperation, then passing the court-house Establish an office at Hickmans 10 miles from the court-house, from Hickmans to Samuel Givens 10 miles Farther in the Stroud Glades 15 and on the leading road from Nicholis court-house to the county cite of Randolph & Pokhontas ^& then to Randolph & back the same way.^

If a mail route be Established as above indicated the carrier being required to deliver the mail once a week going & the same returning many will be afforded facilities who are now Entirely destitute and who in concequence thereof never subscribe to a newspaper, and who with the proposed facility would Eagerly become subscribers to papers, Beleiving that such a route would be general blessing and at the same time cost the department but little. Your petitions humbly rely on the Office to grant to them this most resnable request