To the Honourable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States,
We the Undersigned inhabitants of the State of Wisconsin, Respectfully petition your
Honourable body’s to pass an Act, establishing a Route for a weekly mail from Geneva
at the east end of Geneva Lake in the county of Walworth to Beloit in the County of
Rock by way of Benedicts in the town of Linn south side of Geneva Lake; Douglass Corners
in the town of Walworth; South Grove in the town of Sharon; Agry’s in the County of
Rock, thence to Beloit. The Road from Geneva to Beloit by way of the points named
being nearly a strait line as the accompanying draft will show.
And for which your petitioners will ever pray
A. J. Hale | C H Bissell |
A H Abell | |
A Ingalls | |
S Ingalls | John P Snell |
H Ingalls | |
[Lewis?] Worthy | Saml Ryland |
Wm Rugs | |
H Snell | |
H, Harrison |
Handwritten Document Signed, 1 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