The Petition of the undersigned taxable inhabitants residing upon or near the Proposed Mail Rout in the annexed map designated respectfully represents,

1 That it would be a great convenience to your petitioners to Establish such rout as some of them reside at a distance varying from 4 to 10 miles from any established Post office

2 That owing to the circuitous rout of the mail to any of the offices, of the facilities of which your petitioners are able to avail themselves, thier newspapers and letters are frequently delayed for several days at intermediate offices. thereby causing great vexations. and dissappointments to your petitioners in their business relations

3 That the proposed new rout opens a direct communication with the City of Albany from which place most of the newspapers on the line of the said proposed rout are obtained and with the different Extensive Manifactoring Establishments in the Western part of the County of Green with both of which sections of Country most of your petitioners have large business relations.

4. That there is now no direct communication by mail with the different places on the proposed mail rout with each other and with the city of Albany or the said Manifactoring districts

5. That many hundreds of Newspapers and letters are now annually conveyed along the line of the said proposed rout by private individuals which were it established would be conveyed by mail.

6 That your petitioners firmly believe that were such rout established, it would pay its own expenses out of the revenue thereby accruing to the Post office department and that a considerable Surplus would be left to the department after paying such expenses.

Your petitioners would therefore respectfully pray that such rout may be established by the post master General with Post offices at Bethlehem, New Scotland, Keefers. [...?] ^Indians Fields^ [Newly?] and Norton Hill or at such places on said rout as may to the post master General seem most expedient. And that the mail may be conveyed on such rout from Durham to Albany twice in each week, and from Albany to Durham twice in each week going and returning on alternate days and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c