Post Office Department,
APPOINTMENT OFFICE.
Washington City, March 7. 184 8 Sir:
Second Assistant Postmaster General. To Mr. J. W Bingham Care of the Postmaster of Hillsboro , who will please forward to him.
APPOINTMENT OFFICE.
Washington City, March 7. 184 8 Sir:
Before the Postmaster General decides upon the application for new a Post Office at
The Oaks
State of
North Carolina
at which you are recommended for Postmaster, he requires that the blanks in the following
statement be filled, and the questions carefully and correctly answered, verified
by your signature, certified by a neighboring Postmaster, and returned to this Department,
addressed to me. The Contractor should be informed of this application, and if the
site of the proposed office be off the mail route, you will forward his certificate,
as to the practicability of supplying it, and also as to the increase of distance.
Be careful to designate the Post Offices by their true official names; and answer the subjoined queries fully and accurately, or the case will not be acted upon.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. J. BROWN,Second Assistant Postmaster General. To Mr. J. W Bingham Care of the Postmaster of Hillsboro , who will please forward to him.
STATEMENT:
The proposed Office will be called
The Oaks
(The name of the Candidate for Postmaster should not be applied as the name of a Post
Office. It is preferable to have some LOCAL or PERMANENT name—which must not be the name of any other office in the State, and you should aim to select a name not appropriated to any other office in the United
States.)
It will be situated in Section
x
Range
Township
in the County of
Orange
State of
North Carolina
It will be on or near Route No.
x 2907
being the Route from
Hillsboro’ to Jamestown
to
or vice versa
, on which the mail is now carried
once
times per week.
The Contractor’s name is
x James W Bundy.
Will it be directly on this route?—Ans.. Yes directly
If not, how far from, and on which side of it?—Ans.
How much will it INCREASE the travel of the mail one way, each trip?—Ans,
It will lessen the travel if Clover Garden be discontinued, & in no event will increase
it.
Where will the mail leave the present route to supply the proposed office? Ans.
Where intersect the route again?—Ans.
What Post Office will be left out by this change?—Ans.
None necessarily.
The name of the nearest office to the proposed one, on the same route, is
Clover Garden
its distance is
about two
miles, in a
southern direction from it.
The name of the nearest office on the same route, on the other side, is
Rock Spring
its distance is
three
miles, in a
southern
^north East^
direction from it.
The name of the nearest office to the proposed one, off the route, is
Mount Willing
, its distance by the most direct road is
four
miles, in a
north
direction from it.
State the names of all other offices near the proposed one, their directions and distances
from it by the most direct roads.
Ans . Lindley’s Old Store on the route between 5 & 6 m’s South by West ^White Cross 6 miles S. E. Burnt Shop N. W. 8 miles. Mason Hall 11 mi N.^
Ans . Lindley’s Old Store on the route between 5 & 6 m’s South by West ^White Cross 6 miles S. E. Burnt Shop N. W. 8 miles. Mason Hall 11 mi N.^
The name of the most prominent river near it is
Haw
The proposed office will be
three
miles from said river, on the
East
side of it.
If it be in a village, state the number of inhabitants; if not, state the number of
families residing within two miles.
—Thirty eight families within two miles—38.
A diagram, or sketch from a map, showing the position of the proposed new office,
and of others near it, will be useful, and is therefore desired.
ALL WHICH I CERTIFY to be correct and true, according to the best of my knowledge
and belief this
21st
day of
March
1848.
H. M. Cave Strowd
I CERTIFY That I have examined the foregoing statement, and that it is correct and
true, to the best of my knowledge and belief.
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MAR 8 To the Postmaster at Hills boro North Carolina
Mr Bingham does not desire to be post master himself, & indeed would be unwilling to
accept the appointment. He desires, & in this desire the neighborhood unites, to have
the appointment conferred on his next door neighbor, Mr H. M. Cave Strowd, who lives in sight, at the distance of about three hundred yards,
& about the same distance from the Academy.
Major J. Palmer will be so good as to certify as Post Master, & give the department
his views in relation to the proposed new office.
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POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
OFFICIAL BUSINESS.
OFFICIAL BUSINESS.
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WASHINGTON D.C.MAR 8 To the Postmaster at Hills boro North Carolina
Partially Printed Letter Signed with a Representation, 4 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,