1870-11-09 Election resultsCommonwealth of Massachusetts
At a meeting of the Town Clerks of Manchester, Beverly and Hamilton, said towns comprising the
Tenth Representative District of the County of Essex, held at the Office of the Town Clerk in
Beverly, on Wednesday the Ninth day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and seventy at
Twelve o’clock noon, to examine and compare the transcripts of the records of votes in said towns
for Two Representatives in the General Court, for said District said transcripts were examined and
compared, and the votes for Representatives were for the following persons.
Nathan H. Webb of Beverly four hundred sixty-five465
John I. Baker of Beverly four hundred thirty-two432
William T. Wheaton of Manchester four hundred and one401
Ezekiel F. Ober of Beverly three hundred eighty-eight388
John H. Cheever of Manchester one hundred ninety-one191
David Crowell of Beverly one hundred eighty-one181
F. W. Cressy of Beverly one1
George S. Millett of Beverly one1
Joseph A. Kilham of Beverly one1
John B. Crombie of Manchester one 1
And Nathan H. Webb of Beverly and John I. Baker of Beverly having the highest number of votes
were declared elected and certificates of their election were duly issued according to law.
John Lee, Town Clerk of Manchester
James Hill, Town Clerk of Beverly
Israel F. Knowlton, Town Clerk of Hamilton.