Long Branch
January 3rd 1848Mr PrestonSir
Direct your letter to Rockymount Franklin Va
January 3rd 1848Mr PrestonSir
we send you a petition for a mail route from Rockymount to Floyd Court House by way
of Maj Samuel Saunder’s, crossing the mountain at Canadays Gap
We also give you a map of the present routes which will enable you & others to form
a correct Judgement whethr we kneed & ought to have the route that[...?] we are now petitioning for or not; we also inform . . .ou that Twenty one of the subscribers to this . . .tition will become subscribers for papers who do not take any paper (at present) by
reason of the inconvenience of the post office & thus are and are thus deprived of the means of inteligence for the want of the proposed mail
route
We are assured that this petition will meet your attention & thus meet the attintion
of that August body of which you are a member
Respectfully yoursS. R. AldredgeJames CannadayIsaac CanadayN.B. on the next page you will find the above named map<Page 2>
Mr Preston we hope (if we are likely to fail getting the proposed rout for the want
of form) that you will write to us in order that we may send in a petition in [due?] formS. R: AldredgeJames Cannaday SrN.BDirect your letter to Rockymount Franklin Va
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Rockymount Va
Janry 4th
Janry 4th
Paid [5?]
Hon Wm B. PrestonWashington CityVa
Handwritten Letter Signed, 4 page(s), RG 233, Entry 367: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Committees, 1847-1849, NABÂ