1878-11-05 ElectionCommonwealth of Massachusetts
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 Fifth day of November next at
Eight o'clock in the forenoon. To give in their votes by ballot for a Representative in the Forty
Sixth [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 County Treasurer, a County
Commissioner, a Register of Probate and Insolvency for the County of Essex, a Senator for the
Third Senatorial District, and one Representative to 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 by 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 Eight.
Joseph L. Wilson
Freebom W. Cressy
J. H. Young
Selectmen
of Beverly
Essex ss. October 26th 1878. 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.
Gardner Haskell, Constable of Beverly
A true copy of the original warrant and return thereon.
Attest James Hill, Town Clerk of Beverly
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Beverly in the County of Essex, qualified to vote
for civil officers, holden on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, being the Fifth
day of said month, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy Eight, 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 County Treasurer; and a County Commissioner and a Register of Probate and Insolvency for
the County 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. All the ballots given in
therefor were sorted, counted, and records and declaration thereof made, as by law is directed, and
were for the following persons, namely.
For Governor
Benjamin F. Butler of Lowell Six hundred Eighty three votes 683
Thomas Talbot of Billerica Six hundred and three votes 603
Josiah G. Abbott of Boston nineteen votes 19
Alonzo A. Miner of Boston fourteen votes 14
For Lieutenant Governor
John F. Arnold of North Adams Six hundred thirty two votes 632
John F. Long of Hingham Six hundred twenty four votes 624
William R. Plunkett of Pittsfield forty six votes 46
George C. Ewing of Holyoke seventeen votes 17
Benjamin F. Butler one votes 1
For Secretary of the Commonwealth
Weston Howland of Fairhaven six hundred twenty nine votes 629
Henry B. Pierce of Abington, six hundred seventeen votes 617
George E. Ewing of Holyoke forty eight votes 48
David B. Gurney of South Abington twelve votes 12
For Treasurer and Receiver General
John H. Jennings of New Bedford six hundred thirty one votes 631
Charles Endicott of Canton, six hundred and sixteen votes 616
David N. Skillings of Winchester sixty two votes 62
For Auditor
Davis J. King of Boston six hundred thirty one votes 631
Julius L. Clark of Newton six hundred twenty four votes 624
John E. Fitzgerald of Boston forty nine votes 49
Jonathan H. Orne of Marblehead sixteen votes 16
For Attorney General
William D. Northend of Salem six hundred forty five votes 645
George Marston of New Bedford Six hundred thirteen votes 613
Richard Olney of Boston 30
On'in T. Gray of Hyde Park seventeen votes 17, C.L. Dodge of Beverly one vote 1
For Councillor for District Number Five
James N. Buffam of Lynn six hundred and seventy votes
Harmon Hall of Saugus six hundred forty four votes
Benjamin H. Corliss of Gloucester two votes
670
644
2
For a County Treasurer
Benjamin A. Ward of Lynn six hundred seventy votes 670
E. Kendall Jenkins of Andover six hundred twenty nine votes 629
Elmer Valentine of Salem five votes 5
For a County Commissioner
John W. Raymond of Beverly Seven hundred and two votes 702
Andrew H. Pettingill of Newburyport, Six hundred and four votes 604
James Kimball of Salem one vote 1
For Register of Probate and Insolvency
Jeremiah T. Mahoney of Salem six hundred Seventy three votes 673
Abner C. Goodell of Salem six hundred twenty five votes 625
Samuel Porter of Beverly six votes 6
For Representative to the General Court for the Fifth Essex District
John I. Baker of Beverly seven hundred twenty four votes 724
Charles L. Dodge of Beverly five hundred seventy eight votes 578
Edward Burley of Beverly one vote 1
Francis A. Foster of Beverly one vote 1
William C. Boyden of Beverly one vote 1
George A. Woodberry 2d of Beverly one vote 1
For Representative in the Forty Sixth Congress
E. Moody Boynton of West Newbury six hundred forty four votes 644
George B. Loring of Salem six hundred and fourteen votes 614
James H. Carleton of Haverhill forty seven votes 47
B. F. Butler one vote 1
Joseph Wilson
Henry W. Foster
Freeborn W. Cressy
Selectmen
of
Beverly
Attest James Hill, Town Clerk