1876-11-07 ElectionCommonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. To one of the Constables of the town of Beverly. - Greeting.
You are hereby required in the name of said Commonwealth, to notify and warn in the usual manner
the qualified voters of said town to meet at the Town Hall in said town on Tuesday the Seventh day
of November next at Eight o'clock in the forenoon.
To give in their votes by ballot for Electors of President and Vice President of the United
States, for District Number Six. - A Governor, Lieutenant Governor, - Secretary. - Treasurer
and Receiver General; Auditor, and Attorney General of the Commonwealth, a Councillor for
District number Five. - A Clerk of the Courts, A County Treasurer, and a County
Commissioner for the County of Essex, - a Register of Deeds for the Southern District of Essex,
a Senator for the Third Senatorial District, and one Representative in the General Court for
the Fifth Representative District of the County of Essex.
The votes for all the above named officers will be received on one piece of paper, and the
polls will be closed at thirty minutes past four o'clock P.M. unless otherwise ordered at the meeting.
Hereof fail not, but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon before the time
appointed for said meeting.
Given under our hands and seal this twenty sixth day of October, in the year Eighteen hundred and
Seventy six.
Joseph L. Wilson
Nathan H. Foster
Freeborn W. Cressy
Selectmen
of Beverly
Essex ss. October 30th 1876. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons therein
named as therein directed, by posting notifications stating the time, place and objects of said meeting
at each of the several places in town required by the Town Regulations.
William P. Moses Constable of Beverly
A true copy of the original warrant and return thereon.
Attest James Hill, Town Clerk
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Beverly in the County of Essex, qualified to vote
for civil officers, holden at the Town Hall in said town, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday
in November being the Seventh day of said month, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Seventy Six, for the purpose of giving in their votes for Electors of President and Vice President
of the United States. - a Representative in the forty fifth Congress of the United States from
District Number Six, a Governor, - Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, - Treasurer and Receiver
General, - Auditor; and Attorney General of the Commonwealth, a Councillor for District
Number Five; a Clerk of the Courts; - a County Treasurer; and a County Commissioner for the
County of Essex; a Register of Deeds for the Southern District of Essex, a Senator for the Third
Senatorial District, and One Representative in the General Court for the Fifth Representative
District of the County of Essex declaration thereof made, as by law is directed, and were for the
following persons, namely.
For Electors at Large
Thomas Talbot of Billerica nine hundred and four votes
Stephen Salisbury of Worcester nine hundred and four votes
William Gaston of Boston three hundred and forty one votes
Edward Avery of Braintree three hundred and forty one votes
Samuel Abbot and Moses Morse four votes each and Henry B. Cushing of Boston and George F.
Clark of Mendon one vote each
For an Elector for District Number One
Warren Ladd of New Bedford Nine hundred and four votes
James D. Thompson of New Bedford Three hundred and thirty seven votes
O. Brooks for votes and John Blackman of Provincetown one vote
For an Elector for District Number Two
Theodore Dean of Taunton Nine hundred and four votes
S. N. Dyer of South Abington Three hundred and thirty seven votes
Isaac Stearns four votes
Charles M. Winchester of Brockton one vote
For an Elector for District Number Three
J. Felt Osgood of Boston Nine hundred and four votes
George Baldwin of Boston Three hundred and thirty seven votes
John N. Brown four votes
Magness Ventress of Boston one vote
For an Elector for District Number Four
Martin Brimmer of Boston Nine hundred and four votes
Charles Levi Woodberry of Boston Three hundred and thirty seven votes
James M. Currier four votes
Joseph M. Brown of Chelsea one vote
For an Elector for District Number Five
Samuel C. Lawrence of Medford Nine hundred and four votes
A. E. Thompson of Woburn Three hundred and thirty seven votes
Joseph Sweetser four votes & Winslow S. Oakman of Boston one vote
For an Elector for District Number Six
George W. Morrill of Amesbury Nine hundred and four votes
James V. Smiley of Haverhill Three hundred and thirty seven votes
J. G. Smith four votes & Charles P. Wellman of Marblehead one vote
For an Elector for District Number Seven
Carroll D. Wright of Reading Nine hundred and four votes
James C. Abbott of Lowell Three hundred and thirty seven votes
Daniel F. Pratt four votes, & Samuel B. Maynard of Marlboro one vote
For an Elector for District Number Eight
James Russell Lowell of Cambridge Nine hundred and four votes
Edwin A. Alger of Cambridge Three hundred and thirty seven votes
J. Leadbetter four votes & John Tucker of Watertown one vote
For an Elector for District Number Nine
John C. Whiting of Northbridge Nine hundred and four votes
Eli Thayer of Worcester Three hundred and thirty seven votes
Henry M. Tower four votes & Timothy A. Smith of Westboro one vote
For an Elector for District Number Ten
W. B. C. Pearsons of Holyoke Nine hundred and four votes
Timothy S. Wilson of Fitchburg Three hundred and thirty seven votes
Nelson Smith four votes & Edwin B. Gibbs of Dana one vote
For an Elector for District Number Eleven
Richard Goodman of Lenox Nine hundred and four votes
Cebra Quackenbush of Pittsfield Three hundred and thirty seven votes
N. S. Dickinson four votes & Solomon Root of Hinsdale one vote
For a Representative in the Forty Fifth Congress
George B. Loring of Salem Six hundred and ninety two votes
Charles P. Thompson of Gloucester Five hundred and fifty four votes
Richard P. Waters of Beverly one vote
John I. Baker of Beverly one vote
S. Bennett Bray one vote
For Governor
Alexander H. Rice of Boston Five hundred and six votes
John I. Baker of Beverly Four hundred and ninety votes
Charles Francis Adams of Quincy Two hundred and forty two votes
Thomas Talbot one vote
For Lieutenant Governor
Horatio G. Knight of Easthampton, Seven hundred and forty three votes
William R. Plunkett of Pittsfield, Three hundred and seven votes
Daniel C. Eddy of Boston, One hundred end ninety five votes
For Secretary of State
Henry B. Pierce of Abington Seven hundred and sixty votes
Westin Howland of Fairhaven Three hundred and Eleven votes
David B. Gurney of South Abington One hundred and fifty four votes
For Treasurer and Receiver General
Charles Endicott of Canton Seven hundred and fifty six votes
David N. Shilling of Winchester Four hundred and sixty nine votes
Benjamin F. Butler of Lowell one vote
For Auditor
Julius L. Clark of Newton Seven hundred and fifty eight votes
John E. Fitzgerald of Boston Three hundred and fifteen votes
Jonathan H. Orne of Marblehead One hundred and fifty five votes
For Attorney General
Charles R. Train of Boston Seven hundred and sixty votes
Richard Olney of Boston, Three hundred and fifteen votes
Orrin T. Gray of Hyde Park One hundred and fifty five votes
For Councillor for Fifth Essex District
William Cogswell of Bradford Seven hundred and forty seven votes
Benjamin F. Peach Jr. of Lynn Three hundred and fifteen votes
William A. Bancroft of Swampscott One hundred and Eight two votes
For Senator for Third Essex District
Charles Howes of Essex Nine hundred and thirteen votes
Joshua Tarr of Rockport Three hundred and thirty three votes
For Register of Deeds Southern District of Essex
Ephraim Brown of Salem Seven hundred and fifty eight votes
Samuel Porter of Beverly One hundred and Eight four votes
For County Treasurer
Allen W. Dodge of Hamilton Seven hundred and fifty nine votes
Thomas Ingalls of Marblehead, Three hundred and Seventeen votes
Samuel Hardy of Lawrence, One hundred and fifty five votes
For Clerk of the Courts
Alfred A. Abbott of Peabody Seven hundred and Sixty Seven votes
John W. Berry of Lynn One hundred and Seventy three votes
C. Osgood Morse of Newburyport, seventy votes
For County Commissioner
Zachariah Graves of Lynn Seven hundred and fifty six votes
Joseph M. Eaton of Salisbury One hundred and Eighty two votes
J. Sidney Howe of Methuen Three hundred and sixteen votes
For Representative to General Court for Fifth Essex District
Henry P. Woodberry of Beverly Seven hundred and seventy three votes
John B. Hill of Beverly, Four hundred and thirty six votes
Joseph Wilson three votes, A. J. Sessions three votes
and C. L. Dodge, Charles C. Foster, Samuel Porter, Elbridge Fisk, Daniel Foster, George H.
Southwick. Freeborn W. Cressy, John I. Baker, William G. Woodberry and Warren A. Smith one
vote each
Joseph Wilson
J. H. Young Selectmen
Nathan H. Foster Of
Freeborn W. Cressy Beverly
Henry W. Foster
Attest
James Hill, Town Clerk
On the Eighth day of December A.D. 1876. I destroyed the ballots cast at the foregoing
meeting held on the Seventh day of November A. D. 1876 no person having declared an intention to
controvert or dispute the Election of any person who has received or who may receive a certificate
of Election to any office voted for at same meeting.
Attest
James Hill, Town Clerk