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 [ |
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,