1877-11-06 Election Commonwealth 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 the qualified voters
of said town, to meet at the Town Hall in said town on Tuesday the Sixth day of November next at
Eight o'clock, in the forenoon, to give in their votes by ballot, for a Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General, Auditor and Attorney General of the
Commonwealth, a Councillor for District Number Five, a Sheriff, a County Commissioner,
Two Special Commissioners and Three Commissioner of Insolvency for the County of Essex,
a District Attorney for the Eastern District, a Senator for the Third Senatorial District, and One
Representative District of the County of Essex.
The votes for all the above named officers will be received on one piece of paper.
Also, to give in their votes by ballot, for or against the following Article of Amendment to
the Constitution of this Commonwealth, agreed to by the last and present General Courts and
published in the manner required by the Constitution and herewith submitted to the people for their
ratification and adoption.
Article of Amendment
"So much of Article two of Chapter Six of the Constitution of this Commonwealth as related to
persons holding the office of president, professor, or instructor of Harvard College, is hereby
annulled, and such persons shall be eligible to seats, in the senate and house of representatives."
Every person qualified to vote, may express his opinion on said article of amendment without
expressing in his ballot the contents of said article, but the form of the ballot shall be as following
"Amendment to the Constitution. - Yes or No."
The poll 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 fifth day of October in the
year Eighteen hundred and Seventy Seven.
Joseph Wilson Selectmen
Freeborn W. Cressy of
Nathan H. Foster Beverly
Essex ss. October 29th 1877 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 as required by the Town Regulations.
Gardner Haskell, Constable of Beverly
A true record 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 offices, holden of the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, being the Sixth day
of said month, in the year Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Seven for the purpose of giving in their
votes for a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General,
Auditor and Attorney General of the Commonwealth, a Councillor for District Number Five,
a Sheriff, a County Commissioner, Two Special Commissioners and Three Commissioner of
Insolvency for the County of Essex, a District Attorney for the Eastern District, a Senator for
the Third Senatorial District, and One Representative District of the County of Essex., all the
ballots given in therefor were sorted, counted and recorded, and declaration thereof made, as by law
is directed and were for the following persons, namely: -
For Governor
William Gaston of Boston two hundred and thirteen votes
Alexander H. Rice of Boston four hundred and sixty nine votes
Robert C. Pitman of Newton one hundred and fourteen votes
For Lieutenant Govemor
Horatio G. Knight of Easthampton five hundred and nine votes
William R. Plunkett of Pittsfield two hundred and five votes
Elijah A. Morse of Canton Eighty six votes.
For Treasurer and Receiver General
Charles Endicott of Canton five hundred and nine votes
David N. Skillings of Winchester two hundred and eighty two votes
For Auditor
Julius L. Clarke of Newton four hundred and ninety nine votes
John E. Fitzgerald of Boston, one hundred and seventy seven votes
Jonathan H. Orne of Marblehead Eight seven votes
For Attorney General
Charles R. Train of Boston five hundred and six votes
Charles P. Thompson of Gloucester One hundred and ninety two votes
Orrin T. Gray of Hyde Park Eighty six votes
For Councillor for District Number Five
Harmon Hall of Saugus four hundred and ninety nine votes
James H. Carleton of Haverhill two hundred and one votes
William F. Johnson of Lynn Eighty seven votes
For Sheriff for the County of Essex
Horatio G. Herrick of Lawrence five hundred and eighty seven votes
William M. Hill of Salem two hundred and ninety six votes
Joseph M. Eaton of Salisbury forty nine votes
For a County Commissioner
Joseph O. Procter of Gloucester five hundred and fifty six votes
J. Sidney Howe of Methuen one hundred and ninety six votes
Joseph M. Eaton of Salisbury forty nine votes
For Two Special Commissioners
Daniel W. Bartlett of Essex four hundred and seventy five votes
Aaron Sawyer of Amesbury four hundred and ninety five votes
Horatio Pearl of Bradford one hundred and ninety nine votes
George A. Lord of Ipswich one hundred and ninety nine votes
Marcus E. Tucker of Lynn seventy eight votes
Elmer Valentine of Salem eighty eight votes
M. E. Tucker of Lynn nine votes
For Three Commissioners of Insolvency
Nathaniel J. Holden of Salem five hundred and six votes
Dean Peabody of Lynn five hundred and six votes
William L. Thompson of Lawrence five hundred and six votes
Benjamin F. Brickett of Haverhill one hundred and ninety nine votes
F. G. Douglass of Lynn one hundred and ninety nine votes
William Nutting, Jr. of Marblehead one hundred an ninety nine votes
Samuel Porter of Beverly Eighty six votes
Adoniram C. Orne of Marblehead Eighty seven votes
For District Attorney for the Eastern District
Edgar J. Sherman of Lawrence five hundred and ninety three votes
Harrison G. Johnson of Newburyport one hundred and ninety five votes
For Senator for the Third Essex District
Allan Rogers of Gloucester five hundred and ninety three votes
George A. Priest of Manchester one hundred and ninety nine votes
For Representative to the General Court for the Fifth Essex District
John I. Baker of Beverly, three hundred and seventy nine votes
Henry P. Woodbury of Beverly, three hundred and nineteen votes
Joseph D. Tuck of Beverly, seventy two votes
Charles Holden of Beverly twenty six votes
Joseph Wilson
J. H. Young
Nathan H. Foster
Attest
James Hill
Town Clerk
On the tenth day of December A.D. 1877I destroyed the ballots cast at the foregoing meeting
held on the Sixth day of November A.D. 1877 no person having declared an intention to controvert
or dispute the election of any person who have received or who may receive a certificate of election
to any office voted for at said meeting.
Attest James Hill, Town Clerk
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Beverly, qualified to vote for Senators and
Representatives held on Tuesday the Sixth day of November in the year Eighteen Hundred and
Seventy Seven, for the purpose of giving in their votes by ballot, for or against an Article of
Amendment to the Constitution of this Commonwealth, submitted to the people for their approval
or rejection by Resolves of the General Court, entitled to certain officers of Harvard College
approved by the Govemor on the twenty sixth day of April in the year one thousand Eight hundred
and Seventy Seven, and said meeting having voted thereon in the manner prescribed the ballots given
in were sorted, counted, recorded and declaration thereof made, as by law is provided and were as
follows, to wit:
Amendment to the Constitution
Four hundred and Sixty three votes
Yes
Amendment to the Constitution
Twenty two votes
No
Joseph Wilson
J. H. Young Selectmen
Freeborn W. Cressy Of
Nathan H. Foster Beverly
H. W. Foster
Attest James Hill, Town Clerk