1780-08-24th
At a Meeting of the Selectmen August 24 1780 they ordered the following warrant to be issued out
for the calling of a Town Meeting viz.
Essex, ss. To Mr. William Hazeltine one of the Constables of the Town of Beverly. Greeting.
In the name of the government and people of the State of the Massachusetts Bay you are hereby
required forthwith to notify and warn the male inhabitants of twenty-one years of age and upwards
of said Town that have a Freehold estate of an annual income of three pounds or any estate of the
value of sixty pounds to be computed in silver at six shillings and eight pence per ounce to assemble
and meet together on Monday the fourth day of September next at the stated place for holding of
Town Meetings in said Town at two o’clock in the afternoon for the purposes of electing a Governor,
Lieutenant Governor and persons for Councillors and Senators agreeable to the new form of
government and the Resolves of the Convention appointed for the purposes of making the same.
Hereof fail not but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Selectmen before
said day.
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By order of the Selectmen of Beverly.August 24 1780.
Joseph Wood, T. Clerk.
Which warrant was issued out accordingly.