1862-11-04 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 fourth day of
Nowmber 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, for a Representative in the 38th Congress in District
No. 5, for a District Attorney, Sheriff, one County Commissioner, two Special Commissioners, and
three Commissioners of Insolvency, for the County of Essex, a Councillor for Councillor District
No. 2, a Senator for the Fifth Senatorial District and two Representatives to General Court for the
Third 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 Four o'clock unless otherwise determined by the meeting.
Hereof fall 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 24th day of October A.D. 1862.
John Meacom
John Pickett Selectmen of Beverly
Joseph Wilson
Beverly October 25th 1862. 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 of Beverly.
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 Tuesday next after the first
Monday in November, being the fourth day of said month, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two, for the purpose of giving in their votes for a Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor, and Attorney General of said Commonwealth, for a Representative
in the 38th Congress in District No. 5, for a District Attorney for the Eastern District, a Sheriff, one
County Commissioner, two Special Commissioners, and three Commissioners of Insolvency for the
County of Essex, a Councillor for Councillor District No. 2, a Senator for the Fifth Senatorial
District, and two Representatives to the General Court for the Third Representative District of the
County of Essex, all the ballots given therefore were sorted, counted and recorded, and declaration
thereof made as by the Constitution is directed, and were for the following persons, viz.
For Governor.
John A. Andrew of Boston, four hundred ninety-five votes
Charles Devens Jr. of Worcester one hundred seventy votes
For Lieutenant Governor.
Joel Hayden of Williamsburg four hundred ninety-nine votes
Thomas F. Plunkett of Pittsfield one hundred sixty-eight votes
For Secretary.
0liver Warner of Northampton four hundred ninety-nine votes
Nathaniei B. Shurtleffof Boston, one hundred sixty-eight votes
For Attorney General.
Dwight Foster of Worcester four hundred ninety-nine votes
Henry W. Paine of Cambridge one hundred sixty-eight votes
For Treasurer & Receiver General.
Henry K. Oliver of Salem, four hundred ninety-nine votes
Daniel Saunders Jr. of Florence one hundred sixty-eight votes
For Auditor.
Levi Reed of Abington four hundred ninety-eight votes
Charles Kimball of Ipswich one hundred sixty-nine votes
For Representative to 38th Congress.
John B. Alley of Lynn four hundred ninety-five votes
Benjamin Poole of Topsfield, one hundred sixty-three votes
John I. Baker of Beverly three votes
For Councillor.
Gerry W. Cochrane of Methuen four hundred ninety-eight to votes
Stephen B. Ives Jr. of Salem one hundred sixty-seven votes
For Sheriff.
James Carey of Lawrence four hundred ninety-eight votes
Moses Tenney of Georgetown one hundred sixty-eight votes
Hinkley A. Bent of Beverly one vote
For District Attorney.
Alfred A. Abbott of South Danvers six hundred sixty-six votes
Robert S. Rantoul of Salem one vote
For County Commissioner.
Abram D. Wait of Ipswich, four hundred ninety-six votes
Levi Patch of Gloucester, one hundred sixty-nine votes
For Special Commissioners.
John B. Jenkins of Andover four hundred ninety-nine votes
John Danforth Jr. of Lynnfield four hundred ninety-nine votes
Moses Cart of West Newbury one hundred sixty-eight votes
Jerome Davis of Saugus one hundred sixty-eight votes
For Commissioners of Insolvency.
George F. Choate of Salem four hundred ninety-nine votes
W. H. P. Wright of Lawrence four hundred ninety-nine votes
Benjamin H. Smith of Gloucester four hundred ninety-nine votes
William C. Binney of Amesbury one hundred sixty-eight votes
W. E. T. Smythe of Lynn one hundred sixty-eight votes
Alfred Kittredge of Haverhill one hundred sixty-eight votes
Four Senator for 5th Essex District.
John I. Baker of Beverly four hundred ninety-two votes
David Choate of Essex one hundred sixty-four votes
William D. Crosfield one vote
Four Representatives in General Court for the Third Representative District of the
County of Essex.
Robert S. Foster of Beverly four hundred eighty-four votes
Robin R. Endicott of Beverly four hundred seventy-seven votes
Joseph D. Tuck of Beverly one hundred eighty-five votes
Elisha Woodberry of Beverly one hundred seventy-six votes
N. H. Webb of Beverly one vote
Josiah A. Haskell of Beverly one vote.
Attest.
John Meacom
John Pickett
Augustus Moulton
Joseph Wilson
Robert S. Foster
James Hill, Town Clerk
Selectmen of Beverly