1870-11-08 ElectionCommonwealth 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 eighth day of
November next, at one quarter before eight o’clock before noon. To take action upon the petition
of the City of Salem to the Supreme Judicial Court for the appointment of Commissioners under the
Water Act and to act upon laying the town’s water pipes through private grounds, and upon any
agreement made or to be made with reference thereto.
You are also hereby required by the same authority, and in the same manner
to notify said voters to meet at said Hall on the said Eighth day of November at eight o’clock before
noon.
To give in their votes for a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary,
Treasurer, Auditor and Attorney General of the Commonwealth, a Councillor for District Number
Five, a County Commissioner, County Treasurer, and Clerk of the Courts for the County of Essex;
a Register of Deeds for Essex South District; a Senator for the Fifth and Two Representatives to the
General Court, for the Tenth Essex District; and a Representative in the next Congress of the United
States for District Number Five; these officers will all be voted for on one ballot. The polls to be
opened at Eight o’clock A.M.. and close that 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
said time.
Given under our hands and seal this twenty-ninth day of October in the year Eighteen
hundred and seventy.
John I. Baker
N. H. WebbSelectmen
Seth Norwood of
Beverly
Beverly Oct. 29,1870 pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons therein named
as therein directed, by posting notices according to the amended Town Regulations at or near the
First Parish, Second Parish and Beverly Farms Meeting Houses; Town Hall; the Post Offices and the
several Railroad Stations in town; also at the corner of Hale and Ober Streets; Hale and Foster
Streets; Essex and Standley Streets; and at each junction of Rantoul and Cabot Streets and at
Dodge’s Mill.
William P. Moses
Constable of Beverly.
At a meeting of the qualified voters of the town of Beverly held at the Town Hall on Tuesday the
Eighth day of November at quarter before Eight o’clock before noon, in pursuance of the warrant
recorded on the next preceding pages, it was
Voted, that the whole subject of the article in the warrant in relation the petition of the City of Salem
to the Supreme Judicial Court and also in relation to laying water pipes through private grounds, be
referred to Selectmen, with full power to act thereon as they judge expedient.
Voted, that the meeting be dissolved.
A true record of votes passed at said meeting.
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 at the Town Hall in said town on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday November being the eighth day of said month, in the year 1870,
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; a
County Commissioner; County Treasurer, and Clerk of the Courts for the County of Essex; a
Register of Deeds for Essex South District; a Senator for the Fifth, and Two Representatives to the
General Court for the Tenth Essex District; and a Representative in the next Congress of the United
States from District Number Five; all ballots given in theirfore were sorted, counted and recorded,
and declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is directed and were for the following persons-
namely
For Governor.
William Claflin of Newton three hundred thirty-seven votes
Wendell Phillips of Boston three hundred sixteen votes
John Quincy Adams of Quincy eighty-one votes
For Lieutenant Governor.
Joseph Tucker of Lenox three hundred forty votes
Henry W. Bishop of Lenox one hundred twenty-five votes
James Chattaway of Springfield seventy-four votes
Eliphalet Trask of Springfield one hundred ninety-four votes
For Secretary of State.
Oliver Warner of Northampton three hundred fifty-nine votes
Stillman B. Pratt of Randolph one hundred twenty-four votes
Luther Stevenson Jr. of Hingham seventy-two votes
George S. Ball of Upton one hundred seventy-eight votes
For Treasurer & Receiver General.
Charles Adams Jr. of North Brookfield three hundred forty-four votes
Levi Heywood of Gardner seventy-one votes
John I. Baker of Beverly one hundred ninety-one votes
N. W. Stoddard of North Bridgewater one hundred twenty-seven votes
For Auditor.
Charles Endicott of Canton three hundred fifty-one votes
Phineas Allen of Pittsfield seventy-two votes
Edward C. Peabody of Groveland one hundred twenty-six votes
Lyman W. Daggett of Attleboro one hundred eighty-three votes
For Attorney General.
Charles Allen of Boston three hundred thirty-five votes
William W. Warren of Brighton seventy-two votes
Charles Cowley of Lowell one hundred twenty-seven votes
Whiting Griswald of Greenfield two hundred votes
For Councillor for District Number Two.
John F. Harris of Marblehead three hundred forty-three votes
Israel W. Andrews of Danvers one hundred ninety-six votes
Cyrus Story of Gloucester one hundred eighty-four votes
For County Commissioner
Jackson B. Swett of Haverhill three hundred fifty-two votes
Benjamin K. Prentiss of Lynn one hundred eighty-three votes
Benjamin A. Ward of land one hundred ninety-eight votes
For County Treasurer.
Allen W. Dodge of Hamilton four hundred eighty-two votes
Charles H. Kidder of Lawrence one hundred seventy-eight votes
John Hobbs of Ipswich seventy-one votes
For Clerk of the Courts for the County of Essex.
Alfred A. Abbott of Peabody three hundred thirty-four votes
John W. Berry of Lynn one hundred eighty votes
Aretas R. Sanborn of Lawrence eighty-six votes
For Register of Deeds for Essex South District.
Ephraim Brown of Salem four hundred twenty votes
Samuel Porter of Beverly one hundred eighty-nine votes
For Representative in the Congress of the United States.
Benjamin F. Butler of Gloucester three hundred seventy-six votes
William C. Endicott of Salem eighty-seven votes
Jonathan H. Orne of Marblehead one hundred and seventy votes
John I. Baker of Beverly four votes
John G. Whittier of Amesbury three votes
For Senator for Fifth Essex District.
Frederic Willcomb of Ipswich three hundred forty-one votes
Tyler Parsons of Manchester seventy-two votes
Daniel W. Friend of Manchester three hundred five votes
Daniel E. Safford of Hamilton for a Senator for second Essex District - fifteen votes.
For Two Representatives to the General Court for the Tenth Essex District.
Nathan H. Webb of Beverly three hundred forty votes
William D. Wheaton of Manchester two hundred ninety-six votes
John I. Baker of Beverly three hundred sixty-five votes
Ezekiel F. Ober of Beverly three hundred & seventeen votes
David Crowell of Beverly seventy-two votes
John H. Cheever of Manchester sixty-four
F. W. Cressy of Beverly one vote
George B. Millett of Beverly one vote
Joseph A. Kilham of Beverly one vote
John I. Baker
Nathan H. WebbSelectmen
Seth Norwood of
Beverly
Attest.
James Hill
Town Clerk.