To the Hon Post Master Genl Of the United States
The under signed residents of Northern Wisconsin would respectfully represent That
by the present arrangement for Carrying the male our male matters Meet with great
unnecessary delayWe would therefore respectfully petition That a mail route may be established And
put into immediate Opperation running From Watertown Jefferson county via Waupun Ceresco
& Berlin to Stevenspoint in The county of Portage WisconsinThe whole distance being about one hundred And ten miles and to be carried as often,
as, Once each week each way between Stevens-Point and Berlin on Fox river and twice
a week each way between Watertown And Berlin ^and that Daniel Brown be appointed Post Master at said Stevens’ Point^
J L Pickard | Edmond Cowdry |
D. Brown | Henry. W. Kingsbury, |
James Pettengill | C. F. K. Goodhue |
James G Ladd | Benjamin Single |
Abisha Alden | R C Hovey |
Chancey Pettibone | John Walter |
Robert Metcalf | Anson Rood |
Wm P Fleming | A. Chaney |
Ira [Purky?] | N, F, Bliss |
Jas. H. Bonny | George Campbell |
C M Kingsbury | J. B. Phelps |
E B. Horner | Isaac Ferris |
John Eckel | P C Cross |
John Cuningham | P. H. Brady |
C Graham | E. C Gardner |
A Smith | Dan Stuart |
Walter Finch | James Harper |
William. C. Luce | Thomas Kelley |
William Reichhardt | Almon. Tickner |
J. D. Rogers | Thomas Jones |
Thos Grundy | William Griffin |
Loyal Stevens | Elias Bowen |
John Delaney | Welcome. Mitchel |
Gilbert. B. Bigelow | B. W. Finch |
Russel [Sellay?] | A. Adams |
Orlando Wilder | W. Bollock |
Moses Chase | D. C. Brown |
Angus Manlay | W. S. Brown |
A Darrow | S. Dice |
B. D. Baker | E C Montague |
Samuel Drake | H. L. [Condin?] |
John Febely | N. Stewart |
W A Gordan | H. F. Gordin |
C B Campbell | [Jel?] Hide |
Harmon Coleman | Joel Brooks Jnr |
Georg Fields | John Grant |
Simon Pool | Sam Vitters |
John W Scott | Benjamin W Tusten |
William Stell | Benjn B Tusten |
James Tusten |
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P. M. at Ceresco
The object of this Petition is the same as the accompanying one with the addition
of having the Route extended to Stevens Point about 6 miles up the Wisconsin River
from Plover Portage, where
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the inhabitants are much in need of a Post OfficeThis Petition is signed by the inhabitants of those two places.
P. M. at Ceresco
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Citizens of Watertown, Wis.
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Petition of Edmond Cowdry & 79 others for P. R. from Watertown via Waupun Ceresco & Berlin to Stevens point Portage County, & service
at least once a week & P. O. at Stevens Pt & Daniel Brown P. M
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April 25, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads.
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30th-80
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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 , Â