We the undersigners freeman of the County of Windham and State of Vermont, humbly pray that you would as soon as may 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 In consequence of Vermont & Mass Rail Road to Brattleboro and the Cheshire & other Rail Roads to Bellowsfalls 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 the passenger facilities.

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 goes, it does not directly intersect with other mails, or stages, so that the mail is not directly & promptly distributed, neither 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, not only as it respects the mail and passenger facilities, but as a matter of economy to Goverment, as the expense of transportation of the mail, a distance of only thirteen miles over a good road, will be but very small, compared with that of over Thirty miles, over a very hilly road, as that now runs while the additional expense of supplying the offices with the mail, which are now supplied by that route, will be but trifling. the office at Dover can be supplied 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 from Dover, and the offices at Williamsville & Brookline may be supplied by the Townshend & Brattleboro route for a small extra allowance.

The public accommodation & convenience will be greatly enhanced by this proposed route from the[...?] fact that, the mail will arrive and depart from West Wardsboro in immediate connection with the mail from Arlington and the North west, and with the mail from Bellows falls, and the North East.

And at Wilmington with the Southern mail to Western Mass, and with the eastern by the way of Brattleboro to Boston, and the western by the way of Bennington, Troy &c

---

finaly, we believe it will be a very great public improvement in our mail facilities and one which is greatly needed. we hope therefore you, in your wisdom will grant us our request, which we, as in duty bound will ever pray