We the Subscribers desirous of having a Post Office route so as to Supply our Mail by the most Convenient and roads, pray you to Establish a Mail route from Pottsville, through Tremont, Bear Mont, Wiconisco, Elizabethville to Millersburg on the Susquhanna. Their is now a Mail route, from Millersburg through Lykens Valley to Pine Grove by which our Offices are supplied, but we are one week generally in receiving our letters from Philadelphia, besides suffering other great inconveniences, but the first named route, would be the most convenait, and cheapest, and by granting it would much oblige a large community. and your petitioners
Subscribers. Subscribers. Subscribers
H. Sheafer John Letich William Madany
Benja Drum Jacob P Sailor William Horn
George Hocklander Daniel Reisch Christian Batort
[?] Jacob Bechtel Robert Calvert
John Chapin Jacob Workman Joseph Helt
Thomas Coock John Workman [Danl Faust?]
J. H. Sheofer P Zimmerman
John Crosson Benjamin Unger
Uriah. D. Ferree Samuel Surz
Isaac Ferree Peter Battorff
James Ferree Peter Rumberger
John [?] William M [Pope?]
J Rumberger Michael Holtzman
A Maurer William Myers
Jacob Rees Daniel Collier
Joseph Matler John [Uptynov?]
Patrick Martin Thomas Buffington
Michael Sheafer W. H. Sheafer

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Wiconisco
Feb 14th
To the Honl Simon CameronU.S. SenateWashingtonDC

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[ docketing ]
S. R. Hobbie
asst P M Gnl
[?] reports of Simon Cameron
20th Feb [4?]8
[ endorsement ]
not a post route by law between Pottsville & Elizabethville, by the points within named
S R Hobbie
First Ast Pm Gl
28. Feby 1848
[ docketing ]
Mr Wheat
[ docketing ]
from Hon. Mr Cameron

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,