TO THE HON. CAVE JOHNSON, POSTMASTER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES.Sir;—
The undersigned petitioners, citizens of Jefferson County, O., believing the public convenience demands, would respectfully pray, for the carrying of the U.S. Mail, at least once a week, between the following points, viz;—From Steubenville, Jefferson County, O., to Cross Creek village, Smithfield. Ong’s Mills, to Mt. Pleasant, of the county and State aforesaid. To leave Steubenville every Friday morning, and to return the evening of the same day—a distance of 42 miles. There being no Post Office within an area of 20 miles, through which the proposed Mail is to pass. The undersigned deem a further expression of its necessity snperfluous.
John Logan Martin S Wayman
David Bartholomew. Warrick Price
[J?]ohn T Porter Saml Wayman
N McKenny John White
John Moore
J M Jones William Price
Elias [H?] Lee Mathias H Ong
Samuel Naylor Joel. H. Carr
[L H Lee?] John Nicholson
A. H. [Bappina?] Charles Barnes Esqr
John W Hobs William Ga[saway?]
Franklin Kieffer W H Lee
Blackson Spruance Archibald McKinney
James McClain A W Temple
Henary Spruance Jacob G. Vale
Wm Matthews Jonathan Copeland
Jos A McGrew Wm Oliver
Nel[son?] Carter Thos Wood M D
Joseph E Purviance
Cuthbert Glover O Y Hicks
Ninian Beall Richard [Menenele?]
J. M. Davis. James Brooks
Lewis C Qha[?] William Carter
Mahlo[?] Kirk Robert Leslie
James. A. Ong Alexander Leslie
James Galbraith Samuel Wolfe
Samuel Ballinger Henry Crippen
John Hoyle Jr John Zink
Lewis Gasaway Eben B Crippen
Absalom Kinsey Charles Prather
Lewis N Sutherland Joseph Gassaway
Theophilus Hanlon Oliver Wood
D Upd[?]ff Jr John Young
Chas S Long Jacob R Kinsey
Samuel Hobson Jacob C Jones
Charles Mathes Bn Hammond
Samuel Shaw Thos Seals
Finley M Talbott George Hammond
John Hobson Isaac [N?] Marshall
Samuel Smith
James Prather Wm Gilmore
Wm Ewing J M McCance
Wm A Jud[?] Amos Clark
[Hanby?] Carr John M Rea
Samuel M Naylor E F Moffett
James Davis. Finely Ong
Robert [Lowery?] Richard Talbott
Wm [K?] Scott David M Allen
Leander Peterman Wm Tipton
Levie Scott G Brown
Robert C Daton G [?]
E. H. Burchard P. Woolly
W. T. Blain.
B. F. Miller [esq?] M L Weaver
S. Wilkin Wm C Abraham
A Kyle Hugh Dunn
Samuel A Matlock Rev [Mr?] C Anderson
Jas. M. Urquhart David Ober
John Shane [Carper?] Stanly
James McKenney
Col [?] Harlan James Howard

Printed Document Signed, 1 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,