To the Congress of the U.S.
The undersigned, Citizens of Mocksville, Davie County, North-Carolina & vicinity,
would respectfully represent to your Honorable Body (now assembled) that the present
arrangement of the Mail Routes from Mocksville Northward, operates, & has operated
for years as a serious inconvenience to the undersigned, for all the purposes for
which Mail Routes are established.
The Town of Mocksville contains a population of Five or Six Hundred Inhabitants &
is distant from Salisbury & Lexington only Twenty miles & yet from the present arrangement
we are behind these Towns a week or more, so far as the facilities afforded us by
the mails are concerned.
We believe that the present Route from Salem to Statesville could be dis [...?] discontinued with little or no public injury.
We Pray your Honorable Body that a semi weekly Post Route be established from Lexington,
Davidson County, to Statesville, Iredell Co. via Fulton and Mocksville Davie County,
& the undersigned will ever pray & & &
Dec. 25th 1847.| G. Bingham. | |
| J M. Clement | |
| S.aml Rose PM | G. M. Bingham |
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| Names | Names |
| John McRorie | |
| M. G. Richards | |
| P. T. Meroney | |
| Denton [Ijams?] | |
| R Bailey | |
| W M F Kelly | |
| Thos M. [Donny?] | |
| Thos J Meroney | |
| Hugh Reynolds | |
| Wm F. Watts | |
| T. Cheshire | |
| G. A. Bingham | |
| Wells [L?] Smith | |
| James F. Martin | |
| A W Boal | |
| C. Farbin | |
| H. R. Austin | |
| M D Armfield | |
| Jesse A. Clement | |
| G. A. Miller. | |
| Thomas McNeely |
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The Petition of Sundry citizens of Davie county N Carolina for The discontinuance
of A Post Route from Salem via Mockesville to Statesville, A^nd^ for the Establishment of A Post Route from Lexington via Mocksville to Statesville
^in^ Iredell county ^to be referred to Committee on Post offices & Post roadsM Boyden^
Handwritten Document 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, NAB,