1868-11-04Commonwealth 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 Fourth day of November, in the year Eighteen hundred and Sixty Eight 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, the returns of votes of Hamilton having been
sent by mistake to the Secretary of State no returns were received from said Town. Then transcripts
of Beverly & Manchester were examined and compared, and the votes for said Representatives were
for the following persons.
John I. Baker of Beverly eleven hundred & three votes1103
Freeborn W. Cressy of Beverly eleven hundred & seventeen votes1117
David Crowell of Beverly one hundred & ninety votes190
Andrew L. Eaton of Beverly one hundred eighty-eight votes188
Freeborn W. Cressy of Beverly nine9
John H. John of Beverly eight8
Joseph Wilson of Beverly five5
Robert R. Endicott of Beverly five5
John Pickett of Beverly four4
B. Osgood Pierce two2
F. E. Porter, J. H. Wilson, Wm. F. Davis, Wm. D. Crosfield, George Roundy, Eben
Moulton, & John E. Kimball of Beverly & Thomas P. Gentlee, & Daniel W. Friend
of Manchester one vote each.9
And John I. Baker of Beverly and Freeborn W. Cressy 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
Isaac F. Knowlton, Town Clerk of Hamilton