In behalf of the Petitioners for the continuance of a new mail rout petitioned for by Barnabas C Peters and ^others^ from Paper mill village up the Valley of Cold River, etc, to Newport you are Respectfully requested to take charge of them and forward them as soon a practable to the post Master General of the United States. you ^are^ selected by the said Petitioners in the first place because you have the charge of the petition of B C Peters etc ^for the new mail rout^ from Bellows falls to Paper mill village and as our Petition is but a continuance of theirs it is most Proper that the same one should have the care of ours as of theirs, we also prefer you for the reason that youre better accquainted with said rout and the circumstances attendant tham either of the representatives of ^our^ own state and are so situated that you have more intrest it than they,—relying as we do on your abillity to perform the task we ask of you, that you will exert your inffluance as far as consistant to secure the request of our Petition in as much so as you will the Petition of B C. Peters etc.

A Mr Edmund Burk Commissioner of Patents is well acquainted being formally from Newport and well acquanted ^with^ many of the Petitioners especially those of Newport and Unity and the situation of the of Country in that reagion that counsel with It is ^the^ desire of many of the Petitioners that you invite him to take an active part with you in secureing our to us our request or Petition

I will however Surgest a fiew things as a strong arguments in favor of our petition

It aways requeirs mail routs to be convenient to run the same direction that ^the^ cours of business does to to convene the Inhabitants when business led directly to Boston, etc. it was necessary that our mail run in that direction but as the business in the towns mentioned in the Petition is wholy changed it is highly necssary that at least a mail rout should be established corresponding with with the great portion of the business for ^instanc^ an man wishes to send a letter from Paper mill to Acworth or Lemster if it is put into ^the post office^ at Paper mill on Saturday it will not arive at Acworth a distance of eight miles till Tuesday night or tuesday untill Saturday nigh a letter from Bost takes one day longer whereas if the new mail rout is established as letter put in at paper mill will arive at Acworth in 1 hour and from Boston in seven hours A like remark is equaly true in1 respect with all the post offies on said rout being Six, beside the new one

By securing a mail rout we secure a stage rout which we conceive to be of great advantage for pasengers Coming into the depo at Bellows falls will be subjected to great inconvenience without a stage to convey them to the place of destination to hire a private conveyance will ^or does often cost^ them two Dollars where as the presant stage fair is but Sixty cents enough I have said, you will see

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all that is kneded on this point

As there now a Rail Road building from Concord to Newport you will see the importance of having the two roads connected by a mail and stage rout.

As to the new post office you are aware Parks hollow or we may say ^south Acworth^ is the greatest place of business in town there being the only mills in town the only Fatory &c And a large store probaly will [...?]built there this season and as there is but one store in town and that not ding but little business the prospect is that it will be a place of more business than any place short of Papermill It is estimated that more than one half of the sto. . . business of Acworth is done at Papermill village &c you together with Hon. Mr Burk are so will aquainted with the situation of said rout that I kneed not surgest any more ideas to you for you to argue in its favor you have enough of your own