To the Honorable the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States
of America to be Convened in Congress in December A.D. 1848.
Humbly Represents
The undersigned Citizens of the Towns of Nottingham & Northwood in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire
The undersigned Citizens of the Towns of Nottingham & Northwood in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire
That the Town of Exeter is the half Shire Town of said County where the public County records are kept and
a Term of the United States Circuit and two terms of U. States District Courts sit
annually also a Term of the Superior Court and Court of Common Pleas sit Annually
which Causes a large Amount of business of said Towns with the public Offices and
Courts sitting at said Exeter and in which Mail facilities is very much wanting as
it now takes all of one weeks & some times a fortnight to send a letter by mail to
Exeter and get an Answer.
We therefore Respectfully pray your honourable body to take our Case under your wise
Consideration and establish for us a daily Mail Route from said Exeter passing through
Epping, Nottingham and Northwood to Pittsfield Factories which will Connect a Mail
Route, from said Exeter to Meridth Bridge the Shire Town in Belknap County; which
will Create a Great amount of Mail matter and add quite a revinue to the General Post
Office as well as a Vast accommodation to a population of over ten thousand Inhabitants.
Northwood New Hampshire Novr 23rd 1848John Knowles. | Charles Wingate |
John Wingate | David Furber |
Bena Batchelder | Ebenezer Buzzell Jr |
John R Richardson | Isaac L Buzzell, |
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Pearson Cogswell | |
Ephraim Libbetts | |
Joseph F Carerty | |
Saml S. Dame | |
John B Furber | |
William H K Knowlton | |
Gilman Batchelder | |
Samuel H Furber | |
John Smith | |
Saml R Buzzell | |
Charles A. Kingsbury. | |
Benjamin Hoit | |
Gideon Bachelder | |
Joseph H Taylor | |
Moses Dame Jr | |
Moses Dame | |
Daniel Demeritt | |
Ebenezer Bennett | |
Ebenr S Tuttle | |
Levi G [Towle?] |
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New Hampshire.
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Petition of Charles Wingate & 27 others for a mail rout from Exeter to Pitsfield N.
Hampsh
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December 14 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads
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Amos Tuck.
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(To Mr Root)
Handwritten Document Signed, 4 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,