1861-11-05 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 in the usual
manner the qualified voters of said town to meet at the Town Hall on Tuesday the fifth day of
November next at Nine o'clock before noon for the following purposes: viz.
To give in their ballots for a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor, and
Attorney General of this Commonwealth, a Councillor for Councillor District Number Two, a
Register of Deeds, Clerk of the Courts, County Treasurer, one County Commissioner, and one
Special Commissioner for the County of Essex, one Senator for the Fifth Senatorial District, and
Two Representatives to the General Court, for the Third Representative District of the County of
Essex.
The votes for all the above mentioned officers will be received on one piece of paper, and the polls
will be closed at Four o'clock unless otherwise determined by the meeting.
Hereof fail not but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon before said time.
Given under our hands and seal this twenty-fourth day of October in the year Eighteen Hundred and
Sixty One.
John Meacom
Robert S. Foster Selectmen
John Pickett of
Charles Moulton Beverly
Beverly October 26,1861. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons therein
named, as therein directed, by posting notices thereof at or near each of the public meeting houses
in town according to the Town Regulations. John R. Tibbetts, Constable.
A true copy of the original warrant and return thereon.
Attest. James Hill, Town Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Beverly, in Representative District Number
Three, in the County of Essex, qualified as by the Constitution required, 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 sixty-one, for the purpose of giving in their votes for two
Representatives in the General Court for said District, all the ballots given in therefore were sorted,
counted and recorded and declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is directed, and were for
the following persons namely:
John Meacom of Beverly two hundred twenty-seven votes
Joseph D. Tuck of Beverly one hundred eighty-seven votes
Benjamin C. Putnam of Wenham one hundred fifty five votes
Benjamin Poole of Topsfield ninety-seven votes
Charles A. Kilham of Beverly thirty-nine votes
Dav/d Crowell of Beverly thirly-seven votes
Nathan H. web of Beverly two votes
and William P. Moses, R. R. Endicott, John Nichols, John H. Cross, E. E. Lummus, and Luke
Morgan, one vote each
John Meacom
Zachariah Cole
Charles Moulton
Robert S. Foster
John Pickett
Selectmen of Beverly
Attest.
James Hill, Town Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of Beverly in the County of Essex, qualified, as by
the Constitution required, to vote for civil officers, holden on the Tuesdaynext after the first Monday
in November, being the fifth day of said month, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
one, for the purpose of giving in their votes for a Governor, Lieutensnt Governor, Secretary,
Treasurer, Auditor and Attorney General of the Commonwealth, a Councillor for District Number
Two, a Register of Deeds, Clerk of the Courts, County Treasurer, one County Commissioner, and
one Special Commissioner, for the County of Essex, & a Senator for the Fifth Senatorial District,
of the County of Essex, all the ballots given in therefore were sorted, and counted and recorded and
declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is directed and were for the following persons
namely:
For Governor
John A. Andrew Boston three hundred twenty votes
Isaac Davis of Worcester forty-right votes
For Lieutenant Governor
John Nesmith of Lowell three hundred twenty-one votes
Edwin C. Bailey of Boston forty-seven votes
John I. Baker of Beverly two votes
For Secretary
Oliver Warner of North Hampton three hundred twenty-five votes
F. O. Prince of Winchester forty-six votes
For Treasurer.
Henry K. Oliver of Salem three hundred twenty-five votes
Emory Sanford of Oxford forty-six votes
For Auditor.
Levi Reed of Abington three hundred twenty-five votes
Moses Bates of Plymouth forty-six votes
For Attorney General
Dwight Foster of Worcester three hundred twenty-five votes
Edward Avery of Braintree forty six votes
For Councillor
Gerry W. Cochrane of Methuen three hundred twenty-six votes
Daniel Saunders Jr. of Lawrence forty six votes
For Senator.
John J. Babson of Gloucester three hundred thirty votes
Daniel Foster of Beverly forty-five votes
Stephen Lovett of Beverly one vote
F. W. Choate of Beverly one vote
For Clerk of Courts
Asahel Huntington of Salem three hundred thirty votes
Edwin K. Phillips of Lynn forty six votes
For County Treasurer
Alan W. Dodge of Hamilton three hundred seventy-four votes
For Register of Deeds
Ephraim Brown of Salem three hundred seventy-five votes
For County Corumissioner
Jackson B. Swett of Haverhill three hundred twenty-six votes
Albert Currier of Newburyport forty six votes
For Special Commissioner.
Zeno A. Appleton of Hamilton three hundred twenty-seven votes
John Choate of Essex forty six votes
Attest.
John Meacom
Zachariah Cole
Charles Moulton
Robert S. Foster
John Pickett
James Hill, Town Clerk
Selectmen of Beverly