To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America;
The undersigned inhabitents of the Counties of Kane and McHenry State of Illinois would most respectfully represent, that the ^Citizens in^ North part of Kane County and the South part of McHenry is entirely destitute of mail facilities, the center of their Settlement being
distant from Six to Twelve Miles from any Post Office or Post road, and there is a
public road, very much traveld, running from Dundee in Kane County to Marengo or
Pleasent Grove in McHenry County, we therefore pray that You will declare the road leading from Dundee
Kane County to Marengo McHenry County to be a Post road and as in duty bound will ever pray &c
June 1st 1848| Chas B. Wells. | |
| John Hall | William E Hunt |
| F Ashbargh | A. S. Hollister |
| Nelson Ramsdill | S. H. Peck |
| Dwight Ramsdill | Dayton Reeves |
| Knight Ramsdill | Frederick Baker P. M. at Dundee |
| Samuel Sprague | |
| Danl Duff | |
| Andrew Ashbaugh | |
| John Duff | |
| Robert Duff | |
| Hiram A. Hills | |
| Arnold Hill | |
| Aldert Rose | |
| Peter Rose | |
| Asa Northway | |
| Wm Rankin Sr | |
| H T Beardsley | |
| J Wright | |
| D Mestor | |
| Daniel Mason | |
| Oliver Mason | |
| A. J. Kibby | |
| O. P. Mason | |
| L. Beardsley | |
| Samuel Hill | |
| Roland C Hollister | |
| A. M. Kibby | |
| Martin Kibby | |
| Leonar[d] Cooley | |
| Israel Cooley | |
| Luke Hale |
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Petition of citizens of Kane & McHenry Cots Ill. praying for a mail route from Dundee to Marengo
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July 1. 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads.
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Wentworth
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citizens
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Mr [Wentwth?] presented a petition for a mail route from Dundee to Marengo, in Ills.
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,