1863-11-03 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 that the qualified voters of said Town, to meet at the Town Hall on Tuesday, the Third day
of November next, at Nine o'clock before noon.
To give in their ballots for a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary,
Treasurer and Receiver General, Auditor and Attorney General of this Commonwealth, for a
Councillor for District Number Two; for a County Commissioner and a Register of Probate and
Insolvency for the County of Essex; for a 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 the time appointed for the said meeting.
Given under our hands and seal at Beverly aforesaid, this 22d day of October A.D.1863
John Meacom
Joseph Wilson
Robert S. Foster Selectmen of Beverly
William G. Woodberry
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Essex, ss. Beverly, November 2d 1863.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the persons therein named as therein directed, by
posting notifications of said meeting, at or near each of the public meeting houses, and at other
places in town as required by the Town Regulations,
John R. Tibbetts, Constable of Beverly
A tree copy of the original warrant, and the return thereon.
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 belden on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday in November, being the third day of said month, in the year 1863, for the purpose of giving
in their votes for a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General,
Auditor and Attorney General, of this Commonwealth; for a Councillor for District Number Two;
for a County Commissioner and a Register of Probate and Insolvency for the County of Essex; for
a Senator for the Fifth Senatorial District, and for Two Representatives to the General Court for the
Third Representative District of the County of Essex; all 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:
For Governor.
John A. Andrew of Boston, four hundred and eleven votes 411
Henry W. Paine of Cambridge, eighty-seven votes
A. H. Bullock of Worcester, one vote
For Lieutenant Governor
Joel Hayden of Williamsburg, four hundred and twenty votes
Thomas F. Plunkett of Pittsfield eighty-six votes
For Secretary.
Oliver Warner of Northampton, four hundred and twenty-one votes
F. O. Prince of Winchester, eighty-seven votes
For Treasurer & Receiver General.
Henry K. Oliver of Salem, four hundred and twenty-one votes
Nathan Clark of Lynn, eighty-seven votes
For Auditor.
Levi Reed of Abington, four hundred and twenty-one votes
Moses Bates of Plymouth, eighty-seven votes
For Attorney General.
Dwight Foster of Worcester four hundred twenty-one votes
Theodore H. Sweetser of Lowell, eighty-seven votes
For Councillor.
Evan S. Poor of South Danvers, four hundred twenty votes
William G. Nutting Jr. of Marblehead, eighty-seven votes
For County Commissioner.
James Kimball of Salem, four hundred eighteen votes
Moses Newell of West Newbury, eighty-seven votes
For Register of Probate & Insolvency.
Abner C. Goodell Jr. of Salem, four hundred twenty-two votes
George R. Lord of Ipswich, eighty-six votes
For Senator for Fifth Essex District.
John I. Baker of Beverly four hundred nineteen votes
David Choate of Essex eighty-five votes
J. E. Davis of Beverly one vote
For Representatives to General Court for
Representatives District of the County of Essex.
Benjamin D. Grant of Beverly three hundred forty-three votes
Nathaniel Conant of Topsfield, three hundred twenty-five votes
Joseph D. Tuck of Beverly, one hundred fourteen votes
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William P. Gallup of Topsfield, ninety-four votes
Henry E. Woodberry of Beverly, seventy-eight votes
William Rae of Topsfield sixty-four votes
David S. Holden of Beverly seven votes
N. H. Webb of Beverly
John Nichols of Beverly one vote
Alfred R. Woodberry of Beverly one vote
Elisha Woodberry of Beverly one vote
John Meacom
Joseph Wilson
Wm. G. Woodbury
John Ober
Robert S. Foster
Selectmen of Beverly
Attest.
James Hill, Town Clerk