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To the honorable Senate and the honorable House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled
The petition of the undersigned citizens of the counties of Yell and Johnson in the State of Arkansas respectfully sheweth that they have little or no mail accommodation it being to many of us a journey of from ten to twenty to our nearest Post office, that the section of country in which we live is rapidly increasing in population and presents no obstacle to the transmission of mailable matter good roads having for years been open and kept in good repair
Your petitioners therfore pray your Honorable Body to establish a weekly horse mail route commencing at Chickalah village in Yell county and running past the houses of Mathias Harkey of Yell county and of Jourdan Thompson in Johnson County to Morrison Bluff in Johnson the whole route being thirty miles
Your Petitioners would also pray your Honorable body to establish a Post office on said route at the house of Mathias Harkey ^in Yell county^ to be called “Pleasant valley” and do recommend Mathias Harkey for Post Master—and also a Post office on said route at the house of Jourdan Thompson in Johnson County
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to be called “Shoal Creek” and do recommend Jourdan Thompson for Post Master
And your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray
This 8th day of February 1848
1 Alexander Walker 28 L. McDaniel
2 John Powers 29 N. A. Madden
3 Marks Bernard 30 WmG. Hogan
4 M. M. Higgins 31 H. T. Crownover
5 Anthony Innman 32 James N. Floyd
6 Calvin Powers 33 Reuben Nettles
7 T. P. Sadler 34 A. McCurley
8 E. Baker 35 H. H. Herring
9 Green H. Swisher 36 Presley McCurley
10 John Jones 37 Henry Buckman
11 H. C. Haney 38 Henry Baumer
12 Adam Wiggins 39 William Gray
13 T. J. Haney 40 L. D. Parrish
14 John James 41 Wm K Davis
15 A. S. Heck 42 Thomas W. Pound
16 James H. Taylor 43 John W. Cannon
17 Henry C. Stinnett 44 J. C. Herring
18 E. S. Hanes 45 Thomas P. Morse
19 S. Kirkpatrick 46 Robert Gray
20 Elijah Brown 47 Jacob Tucker
21 William Harkin 48 R. B. Ward
22 John Walker 49 John Blankenship
23 William Porter 50 Sandy Lipe
24 Phillip S Caffrey 51 N McCa[?]y
25 Neriah Morse 52 Martin Lipe
26 John Johnson 53 James D. Adney
27 Presley Jamaison 54 George Fink
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55 Burk Johnson P.M. Chickalah Arks
56 J. J. Brown 89 John Cravens
57 Daniel R. Harkey 90 Robt Cravens
58 Wilson M Harkey 91 Wm B Underwood
59 Paul Tucker 92 John Thompson
60 Wm J. Harkey 93 John C. Ward
61 Levi Harkey 94 Williams Cravens
62 J. Lipe 95 R McMurray
63 Henry Lipe 96 John Cravens Junr
64 John H Garrettson 97 E. Underwood
65 John Dodge 98 E Thompson
66 Jas S. Jones 99 L O. Sadler
67 Maurice Loupe 100 G. A. Sadler
68 Henry Cline 101 William Sessom
69 Thomas H. Cline 102 Joseph Loupe
70 Robert D McFarlane 103 Cass. Johnson
71 Eli Crow
72 E. F. Hine
73 Noah Goss
74 Joseph Gibson
75 Jacob Cline
76 Wm F McClure
77 Jesse Hughes
78 Joel Hubble
79 Joseph N Belzer
80 Wm L. Cravens
81 John Murfe
82 Daniel Henry
83 Mathias Harkey
84 John L Harkey
85 E. E McConnell
86 Jourdan Thompson
87 William Sadler
88 R C Sadler
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Petition for Mail Route from Yell & Johnson Co’s.’
Alex Walker
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From Chicalah Village to Morrison Bluff

Handwritten Document Signed, 4 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