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1871-11-07 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 Seventh day of November next at Eight o’clock, before noon. To give in their votes by ballot, for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General, Auditor, and Attorney General of the Commonwealth, a Councillor for District Number Two, a Clerk of the Courts, Sheriff, County Commissioner, Two Special Commissioners, and Three Commissioners of Insolvency for the County of Essex, a District Attorney for the Eastern District of Massachusetts, a Senator for the Fifth and Two Representatives to the General Court for the Tenth Essex District. These officers will all be voted for on one ballot, the polls will be opened at eight o’clock A.M. and close at 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-seventh day of October, in the year Eighteen hundred and seventy-one. John I. Baker James HillSelectmen Freeborn W. Cressy of Beverly Beverly Oct. 30,1871. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the persons therein named, as therein directed, by posting notifications thereof, stating the time, place and purposes of said Meeting, at all places in the Town required by the Town Regulations. W. P. Moses, Constable of Beverly A true copy of original warrant and return thereon. Attest.James Hill, Town Clerk 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 Seventh day of said month, in the year one thousand eight hundred seventy- one, for the purpose of giving in their votes for a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General, Auditor and Attorney General of the Commonwealth, a Councillor for District Number Five, a Clerk of the Courts, Sheriff, County Commissioner, Two Special Commissioners and Three Commissioners of Insolvency for the County of Essex, a District Attorney for the Eastern District of Massachusetts, a Senator for the Fifth, and Two Representatives to the General Court for the Tenth Essex District. All the ballots given in therefore were sorted, counted and reported, and declaration thereof made, as by the Constitution is directed, and were for the following persons, namely: For Governor. William B. Washburn of Greenfield to hundred seventy votes John Quincy Adams of Quincy eighty-eight votes Robert C. Pitman of New Bedford one hundred forty-one votes Edwin M. Chamberlain of Boston twenty-one votes Benjamin F. Butler of Gloucester four votes For Lieutenant Governor. Joseph Tucker of Lenox two hundred eighty-one votes Samuel O. Lamb of Greenfield eighty-five votes Eliphalet Trask of Springfield one hundred forty-one votes Allen Dean Westfield twenty-one votes For Secretary of State. Oliver Warner of Northampton three hundred twenty votes Luther Stevenson Jr. of Hingham eighty-five votes George S. Ball of Upton one hundred and two votes Henry B. Maglathlin of Duxbury twenty-one votes For Treasurer and Receiver General. Charles Adams Jr. of North Brookfield, three hundred sixteen votes Levi Heywood of Gardner eighty-four votes John I. Baker of Beverly one hundred & eight votes Henry T. Delano of Charlestown twenty-one votes For Auditor. Charles Endicott of Canton and three hundred eighteen votes. Phineas Allen of Pittsfield eighty five votes Ezra S. Conant of Randolph one hundred & three votes George P. Sanderson of Lynn twenty one votes For Attorney General. Charles R. Train of Boston two hundred & eighty votes William W. Warren of Brighton eighty five votes Samuel T. Field of Shelburne one hundred thirty eight votes George L. Ruffin of Boston twenty one votes For Councillor for District Number Five. John F. Harris of Marblehead three hundred & sixteen votes John W. Russell of Salem eighty three votes Cyrus Story Jr. of Gloucester one hundred & four votes Israel W. Andrews of Danvers one vote For Clerk of the Courts. Alfred A. Abbott of Peabody three hundred seventeen votes. Jeremiah P. Jones of Georgetown eighty-two votes. Albion W. Dudley of Peabody one hundred & three votes For Sheriff. Horatio G. Herrick of Lawrence Format that Spelled of & sixteen votes Williams C. Binney of Amesbury eighty-three votes Jonathan Osgood of Amesbury one hundred & three votes H. H. Herrick of Lawrence twenty-one votes. For County Commissioner. Charles P. Preston of Danvers three hundred & eight votes Benjamin A. Ward of Lynn eighty four votes Nathaniel Ambrose of Lawrence one hundred & three votes George Porter of Beverly one vote John I. Baker of Beverly one vote For Special Commissioners. Aaron Sawyer of Amesbury three hundred sixteen votes Nehemiah Burnham of Essex three hundred sixteen votes Robert W. Burnham of Essex eighty-three votes Horace C. Munroe of Lynn eighty-three votes John H. Crossman of Swampscott one hundred & three votes Jesse Simonds of Haverhill one hundred & three votes For Three Commissioners of Insolvency. William L. Thompson of Lawrence three hundred & seventeen votes Dean Peabody of Lynn three hundred & sixteen votes Nathaniel J. Holden of Salem three hundred & four votes John R. Baker of Ipswich eighty-three votes John C. Sanborn of Lawrence eighty-three votes Charles O. Morse of Newburyport eighty-three votes H. H. Phillips of Lawrence one hundred & two votes George E. Lewis of Peabody one hundred & three votes Charles Moulton of Beverly one hundred & fifteen votes For District Attorney for Eastern District. Edgar J. Sherman of Lawrence three hundred & sixteen votes. Henry N. Merrill of Haverhill eighty three votes John W. Berry of Lynn one hundred & three votes E. J. Johnson of Lawrence twenty one votes For Senator for the Fifth Essex District. Newell Giles of Rockport, three hundred & twenty-one votes Samuel A. Stacy of Gloucester eighty-two votes John J. Somes of Gloucester one hundred & one votes. For Two Representatives to the General Court for the Tenth Essex District. Nathan H. Webb of Beverly two hundred sixty five votes. Freeborn W. Cressy of Beverly three hundred thirty eight votes. John B. Hill of Beverly one hundred seventy six votes. D. L. Bingham of Manchester ninety two votes George P. Goodwin of Beverly seventy votes Francis J. Crowell of Beverly sixty five votes. William D. Crosfield Beverly twenty one votes. William F. Davis of Beverly five votes. John I. Baker of Beverly three votes. E. S. Foster of Beverly one vote. Albert Perry of Beverly one vote. D. E. Burchsted of Beverly one vote. Deb Tuck of Beverly one vote. John I. Baker James HillSelectmen Freeborn W. Cressy of Nathan H. Webb Beverly Nathan H. Foster Attest. James Hill, Town Clerk.