To the Hon. The Senate & House of Representatives of the United States in Congress
Assembled—
The undersigned citizens of McLean County. Respectfully represent—that a Post route is greatly needed—between the
town of Lafayette in Indiana, and the town of Bloomington in McLean County, Illinois—that Said post route is needed by the wants of the Country—and
in the opinion of the undersigned, would Shortly after its establishment—if not at
once—pay for its support.
The undersigned, respectfully pray for said mail route, and that the same should run
by the way of Cheneys Grove, Sugar Grove, and North Fork of Vermillion, and Attica.
and as in duty bound will ever pray— &c —
| John Prothero | W. H. Cheney |
| R J Cheney | Mathew Mopin |
| Henry M[c?]mackin | Jesse Hammers |
| James R Lewis | William M Suggs |
| Isaac Stansbury | Andrew G Stansbury |
| Z Morgin | Ethan Newcom |
| Snowden Ball | William Arbigest |
| David Moss | Hilleary Ball |
| [C?] D Green | David D. Means |
| Jonathan Cheney | Russel Cunningham |
| James R Means | Ezekiel Stansbury |
| Joseph Newcom | James McMackin |
| Jacob Smith | Davis Harrison |
| John Haldeman | |
| George Cheney | |
| Wm H Clow | Ashley D. [Horr?] |
| Fielden Loyd | Robert Cunningham |
| David Hammer | Thomas W Green |
| Elijah Debond | |
| Otha Owen | Thomas Cunningham |
| T. Cheney | H S Cunningham |
| John M Stansbury | |
| Elias Owen | Elias Owen |
| Benjamin Prothero | Gabriel Stine |
| Elbert F Stansbury | Edward G. Davison |
| Edward Stansbury | Peter Cowden |
| William thompson | Aaron Ireland |
| Marks Banks | Garnet Whitelock |
| Chancy Horr | Saml Lander |
| Jesse Frankeberger | Aaron Kitchell |
| Joshua Wightman | D Davis |
| Thos G Whitelock | |
| J. H. Robinson | |
| S A Adams | |
| John Harley | |
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Mr Wentworth presented the petition of citizens of Bloomington, McLean Co, Ills, for
a mail route from that place via Cheney’s Grove, Sugar Grove, North Fork & Attica
to Lafayette, Indiana
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January 30, 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads.
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Wentworth
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