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 Bodys, 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.
S H [Hawver?] | C. Douglass |
S. Doolittle | E. Church |
C. W. Huff | D L Wood |
H. J. Clawson | Lewis N. Wood |
C. L. Douglass | John Reid |
Joseph W. Wood | A. R. Holley |
Clark Maxon | |
Henry J Shints | Dwight Searls |
William Reid | E H Bascom |
J H Moore | Wm. Brown |
Amos Bailey | Newton McGraw |
Perry Brown | J. M. Greenman |
Patrick Cullen | W. M. Baker |
Wm B Brown | Henry S. Udell |
Hiram Allen | |
C, M, Stephens | A G. Worcester |
Geo Thomas | |
Cornelius Low | Newel Crooks |
Charles Sutherland | Elijah Easton |
Cyrus Church | Henry Hall |
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