To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress Assembled:
We, the undersigned citizens of the county of Washington and State of Wisconsin, respectfully
represent, that the establishment of a mail route from the village of Grafton, in
said county, to the village of Waukesha, in Waukesha county is required for the accommodation
of several thousand citizens residing on said route; We therefore earnestly request
your attention to the subject. The route passes thro’ Mequon, the most densely populated
township in this county, th inhabitants of which are dependant for their mail facilities
upon a route from five to nine miles distant. It also passes through Germantown, one
of the first settled townships in the county, whose populous neighborhoods now suffer
great inconvenience for the want of mail facilities. The proposed route crosses the
Milwaukee and Fond du Lac route at Menominee Falls, and passes the whole distance
through a well settled and prosperous district.
Your petitioners believe the from five to seven thousand inhabitants would be accommodated
by the establishment of this route; and that it would increase the revenues of the
Department
Your fellow citizensPhineas M Johnson P. M. Grafton | |
John A. Brown | William T, [Bonniwell?] |
Russel Ellis | Stephen Wood |
John H Parcel | Nelson Wait |
E D Lord | Hiram Stilwell |
P, Moor | Theodore R Taylor |
Chs W [Bonniwell?] | Barnard, P. McEvoy |
Henry [?]. [Bonniwell?] | Jno Cottingham |
Jesse Hubbard | William Hudson |
Samuel Whitchurch | A J Mathews |
Peter [Rattsney?] | James Markle |
John W [Moore?] | M. Salisbury |
Peter Turk | George [Bonniwell?] |
James, [Bonniwell?] | |
John Mallary | Alfred, T, [Bonniwell?] |
Edward judd | Philip Moss. |
John Rossman | Thomas Munn |
Peter Kinney | Charles [Bonniwell?] |
Martin Fox | Patk Raddy |
Harvey G. Turner | James Ruddy |
Eugene S, Turner | James Carroll |
James McGrath | Samuel McEvony |
John Codgel | J. M. Clark |
William. O. Brien | Albert Clark |
Charles Judd | B Bettys |
P. K. Hadley | Wm H. [?] |
B, McGoggin | Clark Westcott |
B H Moores | Micheal Hollard |
Patrick McDugal | |
George P. Goulding |
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Petition of Citizens of ^Washington County^ Wisconsin for the establishment of a Mail Route from Grafton in Washington Co. to Waukesha in Waukesha Co.
Petition of Citizens of ^Washington County^ Wisconsin for the establishment of a Mail Route from Grafton in Washington Co. to Waukesha in Waukesha Co.
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February 6 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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30th-80
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Darling
Handwritten Document Signed, 2 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