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.