To the Hon: The First Assistant Post Master General.
We the undersigned petitioners inhabitants of Dartford, and vicinity. Marquette County, Wisconsin, would most respectfully Submit for your Consideration, the propriety, of Establishing a Mail Route. from Waupon, Fond. du. lac Co via Ceresco, to Dartford, and that twice a week, mail Service be performed on the route, Leaving Waupun and Dartford on such days as will best connect the mails, or your Department deem proper to direct
The present slow and circuitous manner of recieving our Mail, and the serious inconvenience attending would lead your petitioners most earnestly to solicit your favorable consideration of our request.
Richard Catlin George Dart
Daniel R Thurston
[B?]. P. [Turner?] Francis Stubbs
M. H. Burgess M, B, Burroughs
J, E, Shepard J. S. [King?]
D, W. Davis T H Radway
P Wicks Thomas L Dickson
Samuel Burdick. H A Buck
Matthew Wilson C A [Parlen?]
Giles H Marshall
H. F. West Charles E Stacy
John C. Sherwood John G Harrison
Saml M. Wolcott Josiah Lace
Archibald Whitcraft James J. DePuy
E Bailey B. F. Washburn
Peter F Goure Robt Jenkinson
Riley J Stratton John Wilson
J. H. Morris Olivet Dant
Samuel LaMont William Merrill
Josias LaMont E Bidwell
J John Dolan John B Starr
Benjamin D Eaton Francis Dorchester
John Bunn Asa Bunn
George W [Dart?] John L Root
Lafayette Dart Adolphus. Dart
David R. Platt Timothy Farrell
Alfred Brown Julius Curtis
Robert Allan
John W Vars [Belhun?] J. Larkin
Geo W Stickle C. Williams
William Medell Jr Chas D, Northrop.
Helver Briswell W G. Blackburn.
Christian Briswell
Sela Bainbridge T J. Conway
William Stewart
Wm Chase W. C. Carey.
D. Berry. R. Mead
F P. Catlin Putnam C. Dart P. M Dartford

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Wisconsin
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Petition of Richard Catlin and 70 others, ^Citizens of Dartford Wisconsin^ praying for the establishment of a Post route from Waupun, Fondulac county wisconsin via. Ceresco to Dartford.
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February 18. 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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Waupun to Dartford
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Referred to the Committee on Post offices & post roads.
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30th-80
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Mr Tweedy

Handwritten Document Signed, 2 page(s), Box 106g, RG 233: Records of the United States House of Representatives, Territorial Papers Collection, 1810-1872, NAB ,