Your petetioners citizens of Montgomery and Chester Counties Penn^a respectfully ask the P. M General to establish a mail route from Norristown to Phoenixville Chester County Pennsylvania Via: Shannonville and Lumberville to Phoenixville you are aware that we now have a mail from Norristown to shannonville which is about half the dstance, And as the Stage runs daily from Norristown to Phoenixville, we can see no good reason why the route should not be extended to Phoenixville. As such arrangement would greatly accomodate the citizens generally, in the vicinity of Norristown & Phoenixville and along the route, under the present arrangment it requires two days to convey a letter from Norristown to Phoenixville or from Phoenixville to Norristown a distance of 10 miles as there is no route except by the way of Philadelphia which increases the distance to nearly 50 miles, owing to the Extensive Iron works both in Norristown and Phoenixville there is consequently considerable correspondence between the two places. your petetioners therefor respectfully pray you to grant the extension of the mail route as above petitioned for by