To the Hon Senate and house of representatives in congress
Your petitioners beg leave to pray your Honours to locate and establish a mail rout
commencing at Mount Morris in the county of Ogle & State of Illinois running thence
a northerly direction through North Grove to Niles and Woo^d^ruffs Corners, Thence North across Pecatonica River at [Farwells?] Ferry, thence To Rock Run Po, & thence on the most direct rout to Madison in the Territory of Wisconsin, and in
duty bound your petitioners will ever pray &c
| S B. Farwell | R E Hills |
| T. J. niles | Stewart Reynolds |
| Luther stJohn | |
| E Farwell | Robert mcMaster |
| S D Carpenter | Putnam. Perbery. |
| J. N Dean | Wm Jaggar |
| Ira Glidden | Truman Webster |
| G A. Farwell | William Brown |
| Andrew. J. Niles | John G Beyden |
| F. E. Young | Jacob Winters |
| Jas M, Baker | Henry Rice |
| Elisha Marsh | John L Woodruff |
| James Seely | Jarvis J Moger |
| James E Cole | Osmer Glidden |
| Lewis Woodruff | Wm F McMasters |
| Caleb E Taylor, | Simeon Glidden |
| Edwd W Taylor | Isac Glidden |
| John Morrill | Matthew [Marvin?] |
| Charles, Hall | Eldredge Farwell |
| Thomas Leonard | Asbury Glidden |
| Luke, A, Farwell | Caleb Thompson Jr |
| G. A. Farwell. Jr | Wm T Stringham |
| Greenlief. Glidden | H Pratt |
| Richard. Montgomery | Caleb. Tompkins |
| Wilson Sutly | C. M. Partridge |
| James B Campbell | Wm G Woodruff |
| F, W, Bonebright | I
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| Theophilus Glidden |
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The Petition of ^Citizens of Ogle County Illinois^
S B Farwell and Sixty others praying for a Mail Route from Mt Morris to the Niles & Woodruff’s Corners Farwell’s Ferry Rock Run Post Office in Illinois to Madison
in Wisconsin
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February 23, 1848 Reffered to the Comitte on the Post Offices and Post Roads
Thos J Turner[ docketing
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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 ,