The petition of the Subscribers, citizens of the County of Lancaster, in the state of Pennsylvania Respectfully Represents, That your petitioners labour under great inconvenience from the want of facilities of direct communication between the Gap post office and the Village of Ephrata, both points being in the County of Lancaster aforesaid, the Distance is about 15 miles through a fertile densely populated and highly cultivated portion of the county including Merchant Mills, Stores, Forges, Factories &c and Embracing an amount of business that requires extensive mail facilities Your petitioners would tharefore pray your honorable bodies to establish a new post route from the Gap post Office to the Village of Ephrata passing by the post office of ^[Hat?] Intercourse^ New Holland and, Hinkletown, and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.