Monticello Indiana
May 18th 1848To the Congress of the United States
May 18th 1848To the Congress of the United States
Your petitioners citizens of White and the adjoining Counties would represent to your
Honorable body that we labour under serious inconvenience by not having a mail more
than once a week. We would therefore pray you to establish a Mail Route from Monticello
to Lafayette in continuation of a Route already established from South Bend Ind to
Monticello and that we have a Mail on said Route twice a week. And your petitioners
as in duty bound will ever pray &c
| Names | Names |
| John C. Merriam | Randolph [Breasley?] |
| Ranson M C[ormaughley?] | Isaac Reynolds |
| William Jourdan | James H Hughes |
| Thomas Hillmon | Wm Imes |
| J C Reynolds | Wm Rissenbenick |
| Joseph Rothroel | Joseph Hanawalt |
| R. A. Spencer. | J B M Sheets |
| M A, Berkey | J. M. [Rofenbaruck?]. |
| Rowland Hughes | David Maguire |
| Valentine Prothrock | A L Peirce |
| David E. Sexton | Samuel Heckendorn |
| D M, Tilton | Zachariah Van Buskirk |
| Thos S. Parker | G A Miller |
| Wm Wolfe | John [Kearn?] |
| Daniel Anderson | R. M. Sill |
| Abraham Brown | Elisha Warden |
| Wm A Perry | |
| Wm [McCollar?] | Joel Swisher |
| Charles Dodge | Elijah Tilton |
| Solomon Yerger | Thomas Vickery |
| John [Gilson?] | John B Bunnell |
| John Reynolds | John Hanna |
| Thompson [?] | Benjamin A Cornell |
| Robert Han | Thomas C Wilson |
| A H Clark | Robert P. Gilson |
| Hugh Hughes | John Wilson |
| John Morris | Thomas Gibson |
| Thomas M [Wickburn?] | Jonas [Manfred?] |
| Silas, S, Jack | Johnathan Oats |
| Greenup Scott | N. S. Rogers |
| Solomon Hicks | John A. Billingsley |
| Samuel Gruwell | Samuel Orr |
| George James | Wm Orr |
| [C?] Bunnell | Wm Hicks |
| Joseph Lear | James [D?] McKinley |
| Benjamin [?] | James Hays |
| David [McCormanghhay?] | Daniel Dale |
| Solomon McCully | David Parker |
| John R, Willey | George Waltz |
| William Cornell | Hiram Jacob |
| George Brown | A Hanawalt |
| [ |
John Glassford |
| Joseph Broudie | Geo. Odell |
| Perry Alexander | Luke Beaver |
| Richard [James?] | Elias Hidelberger |
| Jacob Meyer | [?] |
| Wm [Cross?] | |
| Abraham Lowther | Joseph Shafer |
| Isreal Nerodyke | John Hornbeck |
| Robert Cummins | John Bunnell |
| Charles Spofford | J B [?] |
| Samuel Smith | |
| Matthew Hughes | James P Moore (Jr.) |
| Ira Bacon | |
| Peter Price | John [Sewell?] |
| John Orr | |
| Jonathan Marbold | |
| John Cochell | |
| Wm Kilgore | |
| H. B Russell | |
| David K Ream | |
| Zebulon [Sheets?] |
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Indiana
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Petition of 112 citizens of ^White county^ Indiana asking a mail route from Lafayette in Tippecanoe Co. to Monticello in White
Co.
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refd to Come on P. O. & Post roads.
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June 12, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads.
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Cathcart
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,