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 [...?] Sexton
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?] [...?] Esq
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

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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
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Dec 18, 1847.
Reffered to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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Thos J. Turner
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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