1872-11-06 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 Sixth day of November in the year Eighteen hundred seventy-two 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.
Francis E. Porter of Beverly nine hundred & two902
Francis R. Allen of Hamilton seven hundred ninety-three793
Levi K. Goodhue of Beverly four hundred ninety490
John H. Cheever of Manchester three hundred eighty-five385
John B. Hill of Beverly three3
William C. Rust of Manchester two2
A. E Story of Beverly one1
D. F. Smith of Beverly one1
Daniel Foster of Beverly one1
F. W. Cressy of Beverly one1
Eben H. Moulton of Beverly one1
Robert Whipple of Beverly one1
John Pickett of Beverly one1
Charles Fitz of Manchester one1
Lewis N. Tappan of Manchester one1
And Francis E. Porter of Beverly and Francis R. Allen of Hamilton, having the highest number of
votes were declared elected, and certificates of their election signed by us, 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