To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled
We the undersigned citizens of the Northern part of Illinois respectfully represent
that a mail route is greatly needed through the Northern part of of Boone Winnebago & Stephenson counties We therefore respectfully pray that a mail
route may be established to commence at Belvidere in the county of Boone in the state
of Illinois thence to Roscoe in Winnebago county thence to Forces Bridge in Winnebago
county thence to Davis’s mill in Stephenson county thence to New Pennsylvania. in
Stephenson county thence to Shullsburgh in Layfayette county Wisconsin Territory.
And your petitioners will ever pray &c
| A. E. Ames. p.m. | J. O. Wilson | ||
| J. G. Prentiss | Joseph Durgon | ||
| Asa S Abbott | Jas Hill | ||
| Theron Loomis | John Crosby | ||
| S. S. Brown | Henry Pe[?] | ||
| Edwin Jenks | William [Stoker?] | ||
| Benjamin Alen | William Ruchford | ||
| Albert Tuttle | |||
| G. A. [Farnsworth?] | Nicholas [?] [?]t[?] | ||
| James Thompson | Robert J. Cross | ||
| Bradford James | C. Vincent | ||
| D. A. Sturtevant | B. Higgins | ||
| C W Thompson | Moses Batchelder | ||
| Ambrose [Denton?] | |||
| [Ephraim Bunn?] | G. B. Eastman | ||
| D. L. Jenks | |||
| N N N Gregory | H, B, Cole | ||
| Frederick Ensign Esq | Volney [Belnap?] | ||
| J D. Boardman | [ |
||
| S. W. Leland | Leonard Sexton | ||
| William [P?]eters | C, H, Bentley | ||
| A. Blackinton | John Ferguson | ||
| S N. Eastman | J. C. Smith | ||
| Smith Jenks | Wm C. Jenks | ||
| J J Rhodes | Charles Kerr | ||
| J. N. Blackinton | E G Watkins | ||
| F Benjamin | Aaron McGraw | ||
| John Davis | John[owd?] Jones. | ||
| Isaac Coles | |||
| Th [Sickel?] | W H. Abbott | ||
| F Abell | H. F. Eastman | ||
| Harris Jenks | |||
| Wm, C. Tuttle | Levi M Taft | ||
| Wm [Humson?] | [C?] [ |
||
| G W Seaver | D Cody Esq | ||
| Alexander McAffee | Freeman Tyler | ||
| Giles Mabie | Luther Wright | ||
| E [?] | |||
| Amos Tuttle | D [?] | ||
| 36 | 34 | ||
| Joseph Rice | Henry Doxy | ||
| Thomas Lloyd | Chas Babcock | ||
| Albert Ellis | |||
| Calvin Dart | A F Co[nant?] | ||
| Bristol Bradley | H H Coffin | ||
| Edward Brad[ley?] | Robert Armour | ||
| Wm [Lovesee?] | Oreb Parker | ||
| Edward Thompson | |||
| M R. Blackinton | M. E. O. Bullard Senr | ||
| Samuel Lathrop | S. S. Hardy | ||
| Robert [Lovesee?] | James Love | ||
| John [Lovesee?] | E. P. Sexton. | ||
| William [Lovesee?] | S Dodge | ||
| Silvester Bartholomew | |||
| John Devo[ll?] | G F Brayton | ||
| Abel Jenks | |||
| Samuel Gregory | D Pomeney | ||
| John Leffery | A M Franklin | ||
| Thos W Grant | H, J, Jerome | 50 | |
| James Vanderoef | |||
| 32 | T. L. Breckenridge | John Davis | |
| 56 | Henry Whipple | 52 | |
| J T Vinton | John Bacon | ||
| Jacob Jenks | J P Johnson | ||
| Thos Baldwin | |||
| Euphrates Mead | Hiram Hoskins | ||
| Wm T Smith | S. C. Wilder | ||
| Martin Bathrick | M. [Bullard?] | ||
| Michael Early | 120 |
<Page 2>
1<Page 3>
[ docketing
]
House Rep
<Page 4>
[ docketing
]
Illinois
[ docketing
]
The Petition of Alfred E Ames and One hundred and forty others praying for a mail
Rout from Belvidere in Illinois to Shullsburgh in Wisconsin
[ docketing
]
Dec 18, 1847.
Reffered to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
Reffered to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
[ docketing
]
Thos J. Turner
[ docketing
]
30th 86
[ docketing
]
109
1
1
[ docketing
]
Thos J Turner
Handwritten Document Signed, 4 page(s), Box 232, RG 233: Library of Congress Collection: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 30th Congress, 1847-1849, Library of Congress Collection