Sir:
Herewith please find several petitions, numerously signed, praying for mail service which is, to my certain knowledge, very much needed. I hope you will grant the prayer of the petition[ers?], and establish a new office at “Cross Creek Village”—situated five miles from any active office—and in a densly populated region of country.
Respectfully
your obt Svnt
Geo. Fries .Honl Cave JohnsonP. M. Genl. U S S

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This road as proposed has not been declared a post route
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New Route Steubenville to Mount Pleasant 42 M—[?]
The intermediate places Cross Creek village Smithfield, Ong’s Mills
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Hon George Fries encloses several petitions urging that service be placed on the above route & Offices established This rou
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Autograph Letter 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