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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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.
Lester Rounds
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
76
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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