The petition of the undersigned, inhabitants of the Town of Stratford and neighbou^r^hood in the County of Delaware in the state of Ohio respectfully Sheweth that notwithstanding our government is intended to grant and give to all its subjects equal protection, rights, and previleges, That they still labour under great inconvenience for want of a post Office at the aforesaid Town of Stratford, it is eleven miles from Delaware to Williamsville & a very thickly settled country and no post office between the two places & as the office we ask for is situated at a convenient distance from each and between the two places and immediately on the great thoroughfare between Columbus & Lake Erie. Your petitioners forebear to enter into lengthy arguments in support of their claim they will merely state that it is their right, and if your honourable body will pass a law establishing said office they will be much benefited, And as in duty bound &c