The petition of the undersigned Citizens of the Counties of Johnston & Wayne and State of North Carolina,

Respectfully showeth that a mail rout established from Goldsboro’ in the County of Wayne, to Bentonsville in the County of Johnston, would meet the approbation (& be in accordance with the wishes) of a large number of the Citizens of this section of Country, and greatly facilitate the means of many persons to receive news who are now under the necessity of applying at Post Office’s at the distance of from 10 to 18 miles, to their great disadvantage and inconvenience.

Your petitioners farther show that Bentonsville is situated in the Southern part of the County of Johnston, that the nearest Post Office’s is, Newton Grove about 10 miles South, Smithfield 18 miles N. West, Dudley Depot, Waynesboro’, & Goldsboro’, from 18 to 20 miles nearly east, embracing an area of Country of about 30 square miles entirely destitute of a Post Office.

Your petitioners believe that the proposed mail rout from Goldsboro’ to Bentonsville (a distance of 20 miles) once a week and back on the same day would pay the expence of carrying the mail on said rout which your petitioners estimate at about $50. pr. anum, and should there be a small deficit your petitioners would be willing to pay it rather than be deprived of the advantages they would derive from the convenience of the proposed mail rout and Post Office at Bentonsville.

Should this petition meet your favourable consideration your petitioners would respectfully recommend that the new office proposed be known by the name of Bentonsville and that the mail leave Goldsboro or Bentonsville and return back again on Saturday of each and every week. and farther your petitioners would recommend to your favourable notice M^r Lawrence Peacock as being fully competent to discharge the duties of Post Master and respectfully request that you will appoint him Post Master at Bentonsville

Your petitioners therefore respectfully request that your honor will duly consider the premises, and establish a mail rout & Post Office as above proposed for the convenience of many citizens, and agreeable to the earnest request of your petitioners.

Your petitioners as in duty bound every pray