“Intelligence is the Life of Liberty”
To the Senate & House of Representatives in Congress assembledThe undersigned citizens of the United States, respectfully request your honourable
bodies so to enact, that, all newspapers, and Periodicals and finally, all publications
for the intelligence of the community may be, hereafter, transmitted in the U.S. mails
at the lowest possible minimum, of rates of postage, or Free.
Troy Dec 17,1848.Henry Landon | W. T. Willard |
O. G. Clark | Stephen F Gregory |
John C. Prendergast | Hiram Workyn |
C P Hartt | E. G. Atwood |
Seth H. Terry | |
H C Hill | H. R. Hubbell |
Myron Norton | B. T. Cushman |
Louis. Potter | L. C. Wheeler |
Wm W. Wright | |
Cyrus L. Culver. | Jas Askell |
C L. Tracy | Rich Carter |
G M Fitch | |
John Fitch | Abm A Wemple |
Edward Bolton | Elias Johnson |
Daniel Gardner. | |
John T. Parker | Peter Van Ness |
Henry E. Weed. | J H Datn |
Z. P. Birdsall | B. S. Adams |
Franklin Cummings | E W Birge |
Alexander Or | |
[Cat?] Dana | Horace Bacon |
H D Spoors | C. H. Runell |
George Lesley | W. Gurley |
H. A Thompson | |
N. Stratton | James M Taylor |
John Smith | Rensselaer Bentley |
Jas T. Cruikshank | F Porter Thayer |
Wm Hagen | W. H. Snow |
W. A Sharpe | J. C. Burroughs |
Daniel Hall | [?] |
Jas C. Spencer | W H Wethey |
A C Winslow | |
S. E. Harris | F. B. Burnett. |
W O [?] | |
S. F. Mather | Jno Cooke |
H. P. Tiler | |
Jos D. White | John Clark |
A. W. Scribner | |
J F Knickerbacker | J. G. Fellows |
J. A. Sargent | H. J. Seymour |
J. D Forbes | F S Thayer |
J. F. Wells | J S Washburn |
C. R. Richards | |
Geo. cross | Le G. B. Cannon |
J. B. Hart | Jno. B Tibbits |
Brett [Athow?] | Sidney Smith |
James Ostrander | A A Workyn |
Geo R Seymour | |
George W Plympton | G. M. Headwood |
J. U. Orvis | George Evans |
H. B. Ingalls | G W Percey |
G. W. L. Smith | W. R. Coleman |
L. P. Gardiner | R H. Thurman |
D. K. Neal | Jas. A. Hoyt |
I McConihe Jr | G Stow |
T. C. Henry | Wm Buswell |
P W Suter | J. H. Howe |
Geo. C. White | |
W. H. Waggoner | M. R. Purdy |
W. S. Wakeman | Horace Harrington |
J C. Haywood | |
G Landon | A Milkyns Forrest |
C. Price | Horatio Walsh Brinsmands |
Geo Seabury | Alex. M Lesley |
H. D. Woodruff | T A Tillinghast |
H Merritt | O. Thompson |
D. H Leary | |
D. H. Wellington | J D Mann |
W. H. Tillinghast | Joseph Bassett |
H. E. Huntington | |
Jonathan Brooks | Chas H Bassett |
[Gard?] [Masam?] | Geo H. Otis |
Chas W. Corning | A Hubbell |
C. L. Otis | |
Geo. E. Gay | Edward Hubbell |
E S Barker | Lyman Hubbell |
Lucas Warne | |
Patrick Agan | Charles Bunn |
John Day | Michew Dempsey |
Charles Warne | Geo B Warren Jr |
J J Tillinghast | Elbridge Damon |
A. H. Ten Brocek | James Arnold |
Ransom Ballou Jr | |
Edwin Woley | Wm Johnson |
D Vater | Chas Geer |
D D [Redun?] | Jacob. E. Fuller |
S Chapman | Joshua Crandall |
J OWheeler | Geo. Wm Kellogg |
A Cox | Joseph Garniss |
T. A. Smith | |
Geo. S. Kenyon | Benjm Raybuck |
Ezra Ripley | David Plumb |
John P. Sayles | I Shaver |
Aaron Gay | P Wheeler |
George Ring | |
Edward Slosson | Wm Skinkel |
George [Alberdorph?] | |
[Jas?] Hawkins | H Campbell |
R. McConn | Geo Merry |
John S Thompson | O. F. Donalson |
James O’Sullivan | Peter Tiben |
Daniel Carey | Jas Jordan |
P R Jackson | H Seeley |
H. S. Osborn | C. F. Wolf |
C. R Spaulding | Thomas Godson |
Wm Douglas | A. C. Halsted |
Jacob Bennet | S. D. Smith |
Nathl Purdy | N Crouch |
R D McDonald | S [?] |
Wm Graham | T Cory |
L D Ford | Richard Wheeler |
Wm Godson | Levi [?] |
H. S. Merrifield | J. P. Dorr |
D. W. Lippert | Ira Taylor |
Geo. F. Sterns | |
J Edwd Clark | Jno W Cressey |
B Hatch | A J Wilkinson |
Abner Loveland | Jas C Clark |
H. S. Hatch | Geo. A Caldwell |
A. B. Holton | C D Spencer |
W. E. Hagan | J S Mathews |
W. H. Colegrove | N M Fever |
G H Ensign | Henry Minick |
Edwin Brainell | David Ellis |
George M Percey | Edgar Seabury |
Chas Ensign | D. N. Ellis |
Stephen Duffy | |
W E Nash | Joseph Helmezirtz |
Chas H Rining | H H Frasher |
H. Van [?] | E Philo Pann |
C. W. French | M Leonard |
William Lee | John S. Reid |
S. C. Lee | Lorenz Marcum |
Wm I. Abraham | |
D Rundell | John W. Parsons |
Marshall O Lee | R D Bardwell |
Calon S Selo | G H Dane |
John R Pruyn | G W Granger |
Howard. Ward | L McDonald |
Wm A McLachlan | C McDonald |
Wilder & Snow | Wm Bruce |
Golin Barrow | |
Chas H Beldan | James R. Creighton |
A N & J S Reid | Andrew Burns |
Montgomery Moore | |
G & S. Quackenbush | Cornelius Hackey |
G. M. Taylor | John. Cook |
J C Norton | Wm H Young |
D. R. Porter | Jas T. Foster |
G Quackenbush | John M Donald |
C S. Baines | |
W. C Rinne | James Bull |
J L White | H E Hanna |
Caleb Smith | S A Redfield |
D Jonson | D. B. Allen |
C. Haynes | |
John Williams | J C Martin |
Herman Harris | Orrin Bird |
Edmund Clark | F Drake |
J. Sherry | A. D. Wilcox |
E L Stone | D. Wilkins |
C Winard | S. Tanwell |
E Hopkins | John L Williams |
John. F. Prescott | Jonas Franklin |
E. H. Boughton | S B Saxton |
F. Talmadge | |
T [?] | B C Shaw |
Ira A Blanchard | Norman B White |
Chas Pattison | Wm J. Peck |
V B. Montagne | Lewis S. Chichester |
James F Knight | |
Michael Fogarty | Joseph Wennett |
S B Thrasher | Wm S. Taylor |
G D Carr | A. [?] |
James S Kester | Geo Mills |
A G Hyde | |
H. A. Langworthy | D. L. Woodin |
James Curran | Alanson B. Agan |
T R Curran | Henry S Osborn 2d |
S. D Numan | Walter. A. Pease |
B L G. Waters | |
James Bruce | E. S Bundy |
Thomas Williams | Geo N. Patmak |
William H. Collier | H. W. Peacock |
D M Bosworth | William Campbell |
Charles Moore | |
G W Eddy | [?] |
A P Barringer | S Decker |
C. K. Colby | M Decker |
Aloan Coleman | E M Vail |
Wm F. Brouse | H Merriam |
James Hegeman | |
John Wood | B Marshall |
M H Shaw | S Sims |
H. C. Jennys | J. L. R. Jennys |
Stephen Anders | Wm Allendorph |
L. W. Priest | |
John Allendorph | A P Hamilton |
Anthony Deno | J Hagan |
George Lenny Law | J Ashley |
Wm H. Lane | O. F. Roberts |
John O Meriam | Wm Graham |
Thomas Canaoan | |
Patrick Flynn | J. M. Stewart |
W. A. Huntly | G S Beardsley |
William Ackley | I. S. Barney |
Lott Ackley | Morris Conwell |
A. F. Ackley | H Q Rousseau |
John Hyman | |
M. C. Richmond | D Bogert |
S. Horton | S Swartwout |
J. Howland | Thomas McVity |
E C Howe | John Kirkpatrick |
Thos Goldsmith | Alexr Brown |
C Otis | T C Barker |
John Roth | E Bowman |
J C Roth | F L Rampeed |
S N Lawrence | Stephen [?] |
James Atkins Jr | Benj R De La Berge |
S Niles | Harvey Stark |
Archelay Baker | |
D W Mills Jr | Seneca De La berge |
Ephm Wood | O. M. Halsted |
A W Worth | James Thomas. |
Ira Derick | J. W. Stearn |
O. Pearson | Thos H Palmer |
B Meader | Wm Loyd |
Geo M Ham | Ansen Arnold |
Merritt Potter | Edwd N. Dauchy |
Jonah Barton | R C Barton |
Wm Barton | L. Nevins |
Edwin Osborne | |
J R Wilson | Hiram H Brant |
Ransom Clark | G. Plazins |
Charles Stuckney | Joseph Hollitt |
William J Dupree | Esek Paukey |
David Duncan | C A Weed |
Jacob S [?] | H. Swartwout |
N Rackman | Barber Streeter |
Michael Shea | W W Hamlin |
L. D. Baker | Saml Kendrick 2 |
[?] Martin | |
L A Stams | S. D. Silliman |
Geo W. Goodrich | R. D. Silliman |
P McDoual | |
Leonard Smith | John N Fisher |
Jas V. Luntwood | P. S. Dorton |
William Jones | Joseph M [?] |
W W [?] | John. E. BrickBuback |
E S Weatherhead | |
E [?] & Co | Henry E Weed |
J H [?] | D. B. Britten |
J M Cook | |
R. A. Flood | G S Selleck |
A. Starbuck | F Bowmand |
Isaac N Kneeland | Chas W. Corning |
S. P Gurney | H. H. [?] |
Y Gillingham | S. B. Alker |
Anthony Goodspeed | Benj F. Roynton Jr |
Gilbert Gur | |
William Mitchel | Gilber Gur Jr |
Erastus Gur | J S Delavan |
S Everett Pierce | |
Russell Mann | J. H. Ramsom |
Samuel Dauche | H A Benton |
D B. Clark | |
Egbert Loomis | G R Benton |
Jno F Arnz | Geo Churchill |
J. W. Churchill | B F Thompson |
Lucius Stone | F L Bousall |
Isaac E Dutton | R. W. Kenyon |
John C Thompson | Joseph Ball |
A. T. Dunham | Wm W. Cornell |
Thos H Schuyler | A Russell |
B M Wooster | S C Leggett |
E Armstrong | Wm H. Collin |
J. C. Cannon | |
M Eldridge | Hirman Harrington |
N. B. Squire | Joseph Patton |
W S Haight | |
J. J. [?] | Alexandr Orr |
Harrison Conkey | Wm Lincoln |
John A Ferriss | Wm H. Manning |
John H Hansman | A. l Metcalf |
Daniel Marvin | Daniel W Danis Jr |
John F Adams | Thos W. Lockwood |
Valentine Marvin | D J Hughes |
H C Marshall | H C Lockwood |
George Dauchy | |
T. M. Tibbits | Huddleston P Cox |
A K Sanders | John F Learned |
David Williams | R A Parmenter |
John Raymond | |
Robert D. Price | M [?] |
L. H. Stebbins | Enoch Davis |
J. R. Briggs, Jr | Spencer Cole |
Isaac W. Crane | |
Wm H. Ensigal | H. L. Church |
A. C. Corse | |
Charles Carter | Edward. H. Gregory |
C W Tillinghast | Gen. C. Mosher |
J H Warren | |
J. W. Feuck | F A Corliss |
Geo F Van Housen | John Q Adams |
I. A. Wood | William Thompson |
Alfred H. Peirce | John Bacon |
H Green | Geo. S P. Wilson |
C G Wood | G. H Canner |
L. Wickes | G R Wallace |
J M M Jones | |
Wm C. Hart | |
[?] V Wilson | R. W. Card |
H K Sweetland | Geo. P. Prescott |
J. A. Bann | |
John Blackman | W. W. Wight |
Levi Rogers Jr | Geo W Hicks |
Adam Thorburn | Chas N. Francis |
D [?] | H [?] |
Sidney Smith | H N Peabody |
Floyd P. Baker | |
Geo. F. Cook | Chas H. Kellogg |
G. S. [?] | D. W. Kellogg |
Joseph C Taylor | Southwick Forbes |
W B [?] | Isaac A. Pittman |
I Henry S. Kellogg | Alonzo Bonested |
Jas D. Pinckney | |
P D. Orrs | N C [?] |
O J Akin | Jno H. Nichols. |
L A Carleton | James Harris |
F Levy | |
A. Gates | James Bowen |
J B Thorndike | Wm H Ribles |
E A Watrous | Chas H. Teazie |
Alfred Mosher | J M [?] |
Oliver Hamilton | |
Harry Church | E S Griffith |
J. W. Freeman | P. A. Daux |
Gurdon Grant | Jno. C. Selden |
E. W. Disnoch | Jno Hunter |
S. G. Doughty | Chas S Heartt |
John W. Dorlon | Geo H [?] |
Phil T Heartt | E S Virgil |
James H. Howe | John O’ Grady Jr |
Wm H Morris | E. [?] & Co |
G Derrick | Thos R. Sexton |
John Kirn | J W Rater |
E. [Proudfiss?] | James T Main |
J C van [?] | J C Wright |
James Cullen | John Sedgwick |
F. O. Mather | John L Thompson |
Fredr Ells | David [?] |
James R. Taylor | Chs Henry |
John Murray | Charles T. Coyt |
H. C. Morris | Storrs & King |
N. Ells | |
H N Sowel | J F. Church |
D. K. Neal | King A. Moore |
Saml H. Fellowes | B. P. Pratt |
F S. Thayer | |
Geo. M Wheeler | S. Dickerman |
Jno Clark | Russell Sass |
Hiram H Tinslay | R H [?] |
Chas C Parmelee | |
W B Lockwood | Wm Ingrum |
John L. Streit | C. H. Russell |
Foster Bosworth | |
Chas Verder | Joseph Stackpole |
W Gilliland | A Snyder |
Isaac D. Ayres | J H Tomlinson |
P. H. Brown | |
R. F. Benson | Wm B Campbell |
David Warner | |
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New York
Petition of 679 citizens of Troy N.Y. praying for a law ^for the passage of a law^ authorising the transmission of newspapers and other publications, through the mails at reduced rates of postage or free.
G. Reynolds
Petition of 679 citizens of Troy N.Y. praying for a law ^for the passage of a law^ authorising the transmission of newspapers and other publications, through the mails at reduced rates of postage or free.
G. Reynolds
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Com on Post offices and Post Roads.
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February 28, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads
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Reynolds
Handwritten Document Signed, 2 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,