1872-11-05 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 in said Town on Tuesday, the third day
of November next at Eight o’clock before noon, to give in their votes by ballot for the following
officers. Viz.-
Electors of President and Vice President of the United States.
Representative in the next Congress of the United States from District Number Six.
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General, Auditor, and Attorney
General of said Commonwealth.
Councillor for District Number Five.
A County Commissioner for the County of Essex.
A Senator for the Fifth Senatorial District, and Two Representatives in the General Court, for the
Tenth Representative District of the County of Essex.
The votes for the said officers will be received on one ballot, and the polls will be opened at Eight
o’clock A. M. and closed at thirty minutes past Four o’clock unless otherwise ordered by the
meeting.Hereof fail not but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon
before said time.
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Given under our hands and seal this 25 day of October A.D., 1872.
John I. Baker
James HillSelectmen
Freeborn W. Cressy of
Nathan H. Webb Beverly
Nathan H. Foster
Essex, ss. Beverly October 28, 1872. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons
therein named, as therein directed, by posting notifications therof stating the time, place and objects
of said meeting at each of the several places in town required by the Town Regulations.
William T. Moses, Constables Beverly.
A true copy of 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 required to vote for Representatives in the General Court, holden on the Tuesday
next after the first Monday in November, being the fifth day of said month, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two, for the purpose of giving in their votes for Electors of President and
Vice President of the United States, a Representative in the next Congress of the United States, from
District Number Six, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General,
Auditor and Attorney General of said Commonwealth, Councillor for District Number Five, a County
Commissioner for the County of Essex, a Senator for the Fifth Senatorial District, and Two
Representatives in the General Court for the Tenth Representative District of the County of Essex.
All the ballots given in for said officers were sorted, counted and recorded, and declaration thereof
made as by the Constitution is directed and were for the following persons, namely:
For Electors at Large.
Ebenezer R. Hoar of Concord seven hundred seventy-nine779
John M. Forbes of Milton seven hundred seventy-nine779
Chester W. Chapin of Springfield, one hundred fifty-seven157
Josiah G. Abbott of Boston one hundred fifty-seven157
H. D. Cushing of Boston six6
E. S. Conant of Randolph six6
For an Elector for District Number One779
William F. Davis of Plymouth seven hundred seventy-nine157
George Delano of new Bedford one hundred fifty-seven6
M. W. Nickerson of South Dennis six
For an Elector for District Number Two.
Harrison Tweed of Taunton seven hundred seventy-nine779
James D. Carpenter of Foxboro one hundred fifty-seven157
Nathan B. Beal of East Abington six6
For an Elector for District Number Three
Alvan Simonds of Boston seven hundred seventy-nine779
Charles A. B. Shepherd of Boston one hundred fifty-seven157
S. W. Hodges of Boston six6
For an Elector for District Number Four.
Edward H. Dunn of Boston seven hundred seventy-nine779
Joseph Everdean of Chelsea one hundred fifty-seven157
G. H. Vibbert of E. Boston six6
For an Elector for District Number Five
Amos F. Breed of Lynn seven hundred seventy-nine779
Richard Frothingham of Charlestown one hundred fifty-seven157
A. E. Withey of Lynn six6
For an Elector for District Number Six
Luther Day of Haverhill seven hundred seventy-nine779
John A. Bassett of Salem one hundred fifty-seven157
J. H. Orne of Marblehead six6
For an Elector for District Number Seven.
John G. Hoadley of Lawrence seven hundred seventy-nine779
William H. Clemence of Lowell one hundred fifty-seven157
L. B Barrows of Lawrence six6
For an Elector for District Number Eight.
Aaron C. Mayhew of Milford seven hundred seventy nine779
Henry W. Mussey. of Cambridge one hundred fifty-seven157
W. W. Brown of Cambridge six6
For an Elector for District Number Nine
Stephen Salisbury of Worcester seven hundred seventy-nine779
Isaac Davis of Worcester one hundred fifty-seven157
George F. Clark of Mendon six6
For an Elector for District Number Ten.
Levis Stockbridge of Amherst seven hundred seventy-nine779
C. B. H. Snow of Fitchburg one hundred fifty-seven157
E. W. Coffin of Orange six6
For an Elector for District Number Eleven
Henry Alexander of Springfield seven hundred seventy-nine779
Charles W. Knox of Chester one hundred fifty-seven157
Lucius Holmes of N. Adams six6
For Representative in the Congress of the United States from
District Number Six
Benjamin F. Butler of Gloucester seven hundred fifty-five755
Charles P. Thompson of Gloucester one hundred sixty160
William Endicott of Beverly one1
A. A. Abbott of Peabody one1
For Governor.
William B. Washburn of Greenfield seven hundred eighty-two782
Francis W. Bird of Walpole one hundred fifty-eight158
For Lieutenant Governor.
Thomas Talbot of Billerica seven hundred eighty-eight788
William L. Smith of Springfield one hundred fifty-eight158
For Secretary.
Oliver Warner of Northampton seven hundred eighty-eight788
George H. Munroe Boston one hundred fifty-seven157
For Treasurer and Receiver General
Charles Adams Jr. of North Brookfield seven hundred eighty-seven787
Levi Heywood of Gardner one hundred fifty-eight158
For Auditor.
Charles Endicott of Canton seven hundred eighty-six786
Patrick A. Collins of Boston one hundred fifty-nine159
For Attorney General
Charles R. Train of Boston seven hundred eighty-seven787
Waldo Colburn of Dedham one hundred fifty-eight158
For Councillor for District Number Five.
Daniel H. Stickney of Groveland seven hundred eighty-seven787
John M. Poor of Haverhill one hundred fifty-eight158
For Senator for the Fifth Essex District.
Newell Giles of Rockport six hundred seventy-five675
Benjamin H. Corliss of Gloucester two hundred sixty-seven267
For a County Commissioner.
James Kimball of Salem seven hundred seventy-seven777
Benjamin A. Ward of Lynn one hundred fifty-eight158
For Two Representatives in the General Court for the Tenth
Essex District
Francis E. Porter of Beverly seven hundred one701
Francis R. Allen of Hamilton five hundred eighty-nine589
Levi K. Goodhue of Beverly three hundred fifty-seven357
John H. Cheever of Manchester to hundred twenty-nine229
John B. Hill of Beverly three3
A. E. Story, D. F. Smiths, Daniel Foster, F. W. Cressy, Eben H. Moulton,
Robert Whipple, John Pickett, and William C. Rust of Manchester one each8
John I. Baker
James HallSelectmen
Freeborn W. Cressy of
Nathan H. Webb Beverly
Nathan H. Foster
Attest. James Hill, Town Clerk