Petition
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled
The Undersigned respectfully petition that your honorable body will take into consideration
and establish a Mail Route from Southport Wisconsin via Pleasant Prairie, Walkers
Prairie, Noxons corners, Liberty, crossing Fox River at the Village of Wilmot, English
Prairie, to Richmond in the State of Illinois a distance of about thirty miles and
your petitioners would respectfully shew to your honorable body that the above contemplated
route is through a rich and flourishing portion of Country and that there is no mail
route established on the above route and your petitioners in duty bound will ever
pray
Dated Jan 25 1848Names | Names |
Jonas Bryant | John N Brazie |
Isaac [Brown?] | Jeremiah Garland |
[Dudley?] Cass | |
Samuel M Coy | [Ty?] Paddock |
Asa Hoag | Abner Spaffard |
Joseph Stone | Philander Judson |
Isaac [Miller?] | Martin Moran |
J. W. Wilber | Andrew Judson |
Simon A Didama P.M. Liberty | Hermon S Thorp |
Robert Noxon | John Crawley |
[Hamden Corey?] | Michel Hannon |
G. H. Marston | R. M. Pratt, |
P Stewart | James Kieth |
D H [Hannon?] | George, W, Carpenter |
Ephraim Wilcox | Wm H Sabin |
B. T. McMillin | Hugh McIntyre |
John D Packer | Robert. L. Moth. |
Joseph P Cushman | G, S Button |
Peter Rafferty | Perry McCommons |
J. M Benham | John Archdale |
Leonard Raymond | Dow Vincent |
Robert [O?] [Sirrine?] | Gilbert S Vincent |
Robert Fleming | George W, Vincent |
David McCommons | John D McIntyre |
George [Demman?] | George Penney |
Charles Hatch Hatch | |
David M young | [ |
S, P, LaDow |
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Hon. J. H. Tweedy
Washington D.C.
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Antioch Ill
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Wisconsin
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Petition of John N. Brazie and 51 others
^Citizens of Southport Wisconsin^ praying for the establishment of a Mail Route from Southport Wisconsin, via Pleasant
Prairie, Walkers Prairie to Richmond Ills.
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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 ,