1865-11-07 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 Seventh day of
November next, at Nine o'clock, before noon.
To give in their ballots for a Governor - Lieutenant Governor - Secretary - Treasurer - Auditor and
Attorney General of this Commonwealth - for One County Commissioner - Two Special
Commissioners - Three Commissioners of Insolvency - and a Sheriff for the County of Essex, a
Councillor for District Number Two - a District Attorney for the Eastern District - a Senator for the
Fifth Senatorial Dislrict- 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, afternoon, unless otherwise determined by the meeting.
Hereof fail not, but to make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon before the
time appointed for said Meeting.
Given under our hands and seal this 27th day of October A.D. 1865
Joseph Wilson
Lawson Walker Selectmen of Beverly
Robert S. Foster
James Hill
Essex, ss. Oct. 28th 1865. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons therein
named as therein directed, by posting notifications thereof at or near each of the public meeting
houses, and at other places in town according to the Town Regulations.
John R. Tibbetts, Constable Beverly.
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 the County of Essex, qualified as by
the Constitution is required to vote for Civil officers holden on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday in November, being the seventh day of said month, in the year 1865 for the purpose of
giving in their votes for a Governor - Lieutenant Governor - Secretary-Treasurer - Auditor - and
Attorney General of the Commonwealth, a Councillor for District Number Two - one County
Commissioner - Two Special Commissioners - Three Commissioners of Insolvency, and a Sheriff
of the County of Essex, a District Attorney for the Eastern district, 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 polls were opened at nine o'clock A.M. and closed at Four o'clock P.M..
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:
For Governor.
Alexander H. Bullock of Worcester, two hundred ninety-nine votes
Major General Darius W. Couch of Taunton, thirty-seven votes
Eliphalet Trask of Springfield, twenty-seven votes
For Lieutenant Governor.
William Claflin of Newton, two hundred ninety-nine votes
Thomas F. Plunkett of Pittsfield, thirty-seven votes
William G. Haskell of Beverly, twenty-five votes
William B. Spooner of Boston, one vote.
For Secretary.
Oliver Warner of Northampton, three hundred votes
S. O. Lamb of Greenfield, thirty-seven votes
Samuel W. Hodges of Boston, twenty-six votes
For Treasurer.
Jacob H. Loud of Plymouth, three hundred votes
Thomas C. Amory Jr. of Boston thirty-seven votes
William Meconney of Worcester, twenty-six votes
For Auditor.
Henry S. Briggs of Pittsfield, three hundred votes
A. F. Devereaux of Salem, thirty-six votes
James M. Usher of Medford, twenty-seven votes
For Attorney General.
Chester I. Reed of Taunton, three hundred votes
H. G. Parker of Cambridge, thirty-six votes
Asahel Huntington of Salem, twenty-six votes
For Councillor.
Benjamin Evans of Salisbury, Three hundred twenty six votes.
For County Commissioner.
Abram D. Wait of Ipswich, two hundred eighty-eight votes
Nathaniel Shatswell of Ipswich, twenty-seven votes
John W. Raymond of Beverly, three votes
For Special Commissioners.
Nathaniel H. Griffith of Groveland, three hundred votes
Moses T. Whittier of Rowley, three hundred votes
John R. Longfellow of Newburyport twenty-six votes
John W. Berry of Lynn, twenty-six votes
For Commissioners of Insolvency.
William Howland of Lynn, three hundred votes
Nathaniel J. Holden of Salem, three hundred votes
Henry L. Sherman of Lawrence, three hundred votes
John H. Smith of Newburyport, twenty-six votes
Edward P. Tenney of Manchester, twenty-six votes
Alfred F. Stickney of Gloucester twenty-six votes
For District Attorney
Alfred A. Abbott of South Danvers, two hundred thirty-nine
Benjamin H. Smith of Gloucester, ninety-nine votes
Charles W. Sayward of Ipswich, twenty-five votes
For Sheriff.
Horatio G. Herrick of Saugus, three hundred & one votes
James E. Carey of Lawrence, twenty-six votes
For Senator.
Frederick W. Choate of Beverly, two hundred & forty-five
John Hobbs of Ipswich, thirty-one votes
David Choate of Essex, twenty-two votes
David Symmes, two votes
J. D. Tuck, Stephen H. Nourse, J. S. Todd of Rowley, E. E. Lummus, E. P. Tenney of Manchester,
Josiah A. Haskell and Thomas Thissell, John G. Smith, I. H. Edgett & Samuel Dike, one vote each.
For Two Representatives to the General Court for the Third Representative District
of the County of Essex.
John W. Raymond of Beverly, three hundred & forty-four votes
John I. Baker of Beverly, two hundred & ninety-five votes
R. Frank Dodge of Wenham, thirty-five votes
A. A. Galloupe, John H. Chipman Jr., of Beverly and Henry Hobbs of Wenham and Joseph Wilson
of Beverly, two votes each.
F. N. Dodge, David Lefavour, Frank M. Dodge, Robert R. Endicott, Leonard C. Foss, David
Crowell, Daniel Foster, Perkins Haskell, Benjamin O. Peirce, John Pickett, and William Ray of
Topsfield one vote each.
Joseph Wilson
Robert S. Foster
Elisha E. Lummus
James Hill
Selectmen of Beverly
Attest. James Hill, Town Clerk.