To the Honerable the Senate and House of Representatives of the united Satates in Congress assembled
The petition of the undersigned citizens of the County of Montgomery, Bucks and Lehigh, in the State of Pennsylvania.
Respectfully Sheweth That whereas, our community labors under an inconveniance fore want of a Mail route between the village of Sumnytown in the County of Montgomery and the village of Emaus in the County of Lehigh a distance of Eighteen Miles, and whereas a line of Stages have recently been established and are now running regularly three times a week between those places, We, the undersigned, do respectfully pray your hounable bodies to establish a Mail route between Sumnytown and Emaus the above Mentsioned places, the Mail to be carried three times a week each way in Stages and we will pray, &co.
John H. Oberholzer Chas Hillegass
Samuel W Weiss
Reuben S. Sheetz Jo[nl?] Wolf
Jesse Gery
Mahlon Schoch Daniel Hillegass
David Levy [Saml?] [Lunig?]
Charles Schantz John Keiper
[?] William Hillegass
[?] [?]
Edwin. D. Schoch William More
Henry Stauffer Johann [?]
Reuben Gery [Johannes?] [?]
[...?][Getion Garr?]
Daniel [Moll?] [?]
Philip [D?]uper [Johannes?] [?]
Jesse Fries Jacob [?]
Solomon Erney
Enos Reader Rüban[Gilligass?]
Daniel [?]ffer [?]
Elias Sherer Samuel Troxel
Daniel [?] Manuel Wolf
Jacob Miller George Heilig
Joseph Miller [Albert?] Bo[g?]en
Samuel. C. Roeder Wm C Roeder
Davi[d?] [?]

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[?]B[äum?]
Jacob Hillegass
Jonl Gilligas
George Sannebecker
Henry Kline
L. P. Ref[ineider?]
Samuel Missmer
Christian Shelby
Samuel Kline
Nathan Lavy
Samuel Stauffer
John T Bach
Leonard Staufer
[?]
Jacob D[?]
Benja Gery
Anthony Krauss
Nathan Nuss
Elias [?]
Edwin Weidner
James S Heist
George Yeakel
[?]
John Wolford

Handwritten Document Signed, 3 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,