we the undersigners, freeman of the County of Windham and State of Vermont humbly pray that you would, as soon as pray be, by an act of your Hoⁿ body, establish a mail route, from Wilmington through West Dover and a part of Somerset to West Wardsboro in said County of Windham the distance of which, is about thirteen miles The necessity of such a mail route is obvious from various considerations, a few of which are the following, First, in consequence of of the vermont & Mass Rail Road coming to Brattleboro, and the Cheshire and other RailRoads to Bellows falls in this County there will nessessarily have to be various new arrangements in our present mail accommodations in this County, both, for the convenience of the mail and passengers. ^2^d^ we think that the public convenience will require, that, the present mail route from Wilmington, through Dover, Williamsville, Fayetteville and Brookline, to Cambridgeport be discontinued or materially altered for as it now runs it does not directly intersect with other mails or stages, so that the mail is not directly and promptly distributed, neither

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are passengers at all accommodated by it. our proposed route, will not only supercede the necessity of that, but will be a material improvement on that, both ^not only^ as it respects the mail & passenger facilities, but as a matter of economy to Goverment, as the expense of transportation of the mail, a distance of Thr Thirteen miles over a good Road, will be but small, compared with that of over Thirty miles over a very hilly road as that now runs, while the additional expense of supplying the mail Offices with the mail which are now supplied by that route will be but trifling, the office at Dover can be supplyed by a Special mail from West Dover, probably at the same price that the office at West Dover is now supplied by a Special mail form Dover and the offices at Williamsville & Brookline may be Supplied by the Townshend & Brattleboro route, for a small extra [allowance?] The public convenience and accommodation will be greatly enhanced from the[...?] fact that the mail will arrive & depart from West-Wardsboro in connection with the mail from Arlington & the North West, and with ^the^ mail from Bellowsfalls and the North East, And at Wilmington with the Southern mail to Western M^ass and with the Eastern by the way

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of Brattleboro to Boston and with the Western by the way of Bennington, Troy &c

finaly, we believe it will be a very great public improvement in our mail facilites if your Hon. body shall grant us our request which we, as in duty bound, will ever pray