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To the Honorable the Sennate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled,
The petition of the Scrubscribers, Citizens of the County of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania respectfully represents.
That your petitioners labor under great inconvenience from the want of facilities of direct communication, between the Gap post Office and the Village of Ephrata, both points being in the County of Lancaster aforesaid the distance is about 15 miles through a fertile densly populated and highly cultivated portion of the county including Merchant Mills, Stores, Forges, Factories, &c and Embracing an amount of business that requires Extensive mail facilitiesYour petitioners would thare fore pray your Honorable bodies to Establish a new post route from the Gap post office to the Village of Ephrata passing by the post offices of Hat Intercourse, New, Holland and Hinkletown, and your petitioners as in duty bound will Ever prey.
J. W. Rutter Sylvester Kennedy
1 C Umble 18 I G. Sanderson
2 19 Robert Baldwin
2 John Wright 20 H. L Henderson
3 Henry F. Haymaker 21 Saml J Henderson
4 A Fleming Haymaker 22 Thos A McNeil
23 John Livingston.
5 William S Kennedy 24 John D Witron
6 A. C. Buyers. 25 Thos S Mc[Ilvane?]
26 Christian Hess
7 John Hamilton 27 Jonathan Hoas
28 Robert Rodgers
29 Amos S Henderson
8 Robert Maxwell 30 Jacob Umbler
31 John Umble Jr
9 H. H. Umble 32 Tho G Henderson
10 Saml Jackson 33 Isaac Levingston
34 Jacob Chalfant
11 Henry Dickinson. 35 Hugh Rambo
36 William F Baker
12 David S Hutchison [SD?] 37 B F Houston
13 Richard T Maxwell 38 William Rambo
39 T. H. Henderson
14 James H Houston 40 Jacob Mast
41 Adam Trout
15 J. B. Baker 42 John B Crawford
43 John Marsh
16 S. Baker 44 Thomas Withrow.
17 J. Mesnse 45 Henry Miller
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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,