We the undersigned Petitioners Respectfully ask for the establishment a mail route from Southport Racine Co, Wisconsin to Antioch Ills via, Of Pleasant Prarie, and ^Franklin^
We would state that we respectively reside within 4 miles of the proposed route,
O. E. Hall Adney Lawrence
Don B, Pike William Ingram
G. W, Carpenter G. N. Del[oss?]
D. P. Matthews Morris Smith
Thomas B Pike German. Smith
Asa F. Bailey Joseph B. White
P. Buck Jermiah. Quin
A. Buck Thos Haycock
Are[lus?] Francis Jonathan Ames
Ambrose Vincent Thomas Fisher
C R Hoadley
Clark Hoadley John K. Pollock.
Patrick Haughy Ira Monroe
Simon Haughy Apollos P Ames
Chas Elliott James Webb
Joseph Bown Alonzo Thornton
Isaac Haycock Alexr Kennedy
Levi S [?]am. Francis Laraby
J. C. Stonton John Kennedy
Jonas Van Fradenburgh Saml Curtiss
W. Pulver Joseph Otis
Frederick Crawford Horace Weaver
Daniel McManamon Jonas, H. Bonmans
Thos. Edwards H. J. Sill.
Wm Crawford Silas. Smith
James Kennedy Albert. B Fitch
H, N, Hickcox Frances Hayward
John P Lane
Smith Calkins David [?]e[?]ion
P. Munson David Bates
D Head H B Lane
S S [Brom?] G. W. Bunker
Joseph Brooks Peter
[Z?]. G. Prickard Peter E Smith
John Hoit Oliver Morehouse
E. Myers James Weston
Chas A Hammon
W Bradley H. P. Nelson
John [Cromley?] H. K. Fairman
C W. Douglas
Jason Bushnell Nelson Sherman
Jacob [D?] [Frigg?] William Parks
Ezra Nearing
Charles Haynes

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Return to me by Jan 1st to be for’d.
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Wisconsin Petition of ^Citizens of Southport Wisconsin^ O. E. Hall and 79 others praying for the establishment of a mail route from Southport Wisconsin to Antioch Illinois via. Pleasant prairie and Franklin
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February 14, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads.
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Committee on Post offices & post roads.
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Mr Tweedy
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Handwritten Document Signed, 2 page(s), Box 106g, RG 233: Records of the United States House of Representatives, Territorial Papers Collection, 1810-1872, NAB ,