To the Honl the Senate & House of Representatives in Congress Assembled
Your Petitioners inhabitants of Cookville (& vicinity) in the County of Rock Wisconsin
respectfuly present, that the public interest require^s^ that a mail route should be established connecting Green and Jefferson Counties,
in Wisconsin; and do therefore pray that a mail route be established commencing at
Exeter in the county Green and running in a N. E.ly direction via. Union, Cookville,
Dunkirk, & Cambridge, to Lake Mills in the county of Jefferson, distance miles
And your petitioners will every pray &c
Cookville April 20, 1848
| Names of Petitioners | Names of Petitioners |
| J. A. Hoxie | William C Lamore |
| Abel Shepard | John Gott |
| Daniel Lovejoy | Hubbard Champney |
| James [Shurrum?] | Daniel Cook |
| John D. Chambers | Norman Soule |
| Nehemiah Parker | F W Seares |
| G. J. Webb. | J P. Van. Vleck |
| B. Smith | D Hanson |
| B S Hoxie | W. B. Carson |
| Allen Hoxie | John S. Porter |
| Thos [Morgan?] | C. F. Howard |
| M Atkinson | Joseph K P Parker |
| G. A. Backenstose | John W. Buterfield |
| A. D. Cole | J B Collins |
| Ezra Mann | J. W. Savage |
| C W Phelps | John D Seaver |
| Thos W. Longbourne | John W Fisher Jr |
| John Freeman | Irvin Shepard |
| [Ezekial?] Lacy | Joseph Sibley |
| George Gilley | Jesse Chambers |
| William Prentiss | |
| James Anderson | Isaac Andrews |
| Joseph Bradshaw | John W Fisher |
| Harrison Stebbins | Bishop Van Wart |
| George Cassuck | E. F. Reng |
| N Parker | James Lovejoy |
| Stratton Woodward | Hudson Wells |
| D F. Chapin | Jona Lawrence |
| John Curtiss | Peter Countryman |
| Cyrus Sally | Otis Guernsey |
| Richard Shearburn | |
| Freedom Jones | A T Wells |
| John Galt | A. J. Wilder |
| John Adams | Jeremiah Adams |
| Thomas Anderson | E C Andrus |
| Smith Dougherty |
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citizens of Rock Co. Wisconsin
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Petition of Wm C. Lamore and others others for a Post route from Exeter Green County Wisconsin via
Union Cookville, Dunkirk and Cambridge to Lake Mills in Jefferson County
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May 20, 1848 Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads.
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Committee on Post office & P routs
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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 ,