To the Honourable, the Congress of the United States in Congress Assembled.
We the subscribers, Citizens of the Counties of Jefferson and St Launce, of the State of New York would petition your Honourable Body to establish a mail Rout, commencing at La Fargeville in Orleans and Thence intersecting the “French creek mail at that place by the way of shanty ville and the “Parker settlement”, To Thense where it intersects the Watertown & Hammond and also, and Plessis & Alexandria Bay Mails; from thence by way of Websters Corners to “Ox Bow” intersecting the eastern mail from Denmark in Lewis County to Ogdensburgh, from thence, by the village of Caledonia to [Governeure?] in St. Lawrence County the whole distance being but about Twenty seven miles.
L. Bushnell E. W. Lewis
J. N. Beardsley
S. N. Dixon S. W. Stiough
Warren Hall Horrace Barrow
B. B. Sheldon
Curtis, Richardson Peleg Arnold
E. M. Eldridge John Tallman
W. R. Mead Ira E Sheldon
H [Biddleson?] Abram Tallman
Orson Wright Richard Near
J H Haron
E. W. Bedell H. Vincent
[Harry?] Bailey George W. Tucker
J. Frank [R?]
George Bushnell Andrew Gordon
Ira Doane Nathan Marble
John Foot Jno G. Pendergast
Joseph Perrine Benjn F. Rood
O. W. Cushwell David [Maxwell?]
[G?]. W. Hermes Anson Tucker
Chas F Garner Wm C. Smith
David P Williams Isaac French
S D Priest Gideon [Budlone?]
Charles Cummins
R B [Biddleson?] Henry S Nash
Seymour Vincent
Abm J Smith George Ott
John N. Rottiers Ezra [Grernal?]
S. F. Rood
Rodolphus Dickinson Henry Kroke
S. B. Grenell Lewis Patterson
Josiah L Nash Wm Holloway
H. P. Dillenback Geo W [Saunce?]
Francis Epps
Robert T Jerome Felten Smith
H Gordon J D Priest
Alvinza King H W Bushnell
Willard Tarbell B. arnold
Wm E Pearsons. Hiram Dewey
Wm Huntington Daniel Eddy
[th?] B Dixon [Ch?] [Beckwith?]
James Mc namee Thos E Drake
A. Morse Peter Boyer
Thomas Stickney J N Simmons
Martin Priest Lorenso D Simmons
Michael Futts [?] S Eddy
Volney Barden Jacob House
Welcome Eddy jr Asa Eddy
Lewis Richards John Hill
A. H. Evans Edwin [Paleipher?]
James Kilborn Jr. Jothum Marshall
Amasa Johnson Elias Coon
Henry Kilborn Thomas Stickney
Henry [Irvin?] H [Biddleson?]
Jas [?] Wm H. Shed
L B Dubois
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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,