1873-11-04 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 Fourth day
of November next at Eight o’clock before noon, to give in their votes by ballot for the following
officers viz.: For a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General,
Auditor, and Attorney General of said Commonwealth. Councillor for District Number Five.
Register of Probate and Insolvency, Register of Deeds. County Commissioner and County Treasurer,
of 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 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 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.
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Given under our hands and seal this 25 day of October A.D.1873.
John I. BakerSelectmen
James Hill of
Nathan H. Webb Beverly
Freeborn W. Cressy
Essex, ss. October 1873. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the persons therein
named as therein directed, by posting notifications stating the time, place and objects of said meeting
at each of the several places in town required by the Town Regulations
Constable of Beverly.
A true copy of the 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 civil officers holden at the Town Hall in said Town on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, being the fourth day of said month in the year one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, for the purpose of giving in their votes for a Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General, Auditor and Attorney General of
said Commonwealth, Councillor for District Number Five. Register of Probate and Insolvency,
Register of Deeds for Southern District, County Commissioner and County Treasurer of 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 ballots given in therefore were
sorted, counted and recorded and declaration thereof made, as by the Constitution is directed, and
were for the following persons, viz.:
For Governor.
William Washburn of Greenfield four hundred seventy-seven.
William Gaston of Boston, one hundred twenty-nine votes
Wendell Phillips of Boston fourteen votes.
Henry K. Oliver of Salem two votes.
Benjamin F. Butler of Gloucester three votes.
Charles Moulton of Beverly one vote.
For Lieutenant Governor.
Thomas Talbot of Billerica, five hundred one votes.
William M. Smith of Springfield, one hundred and eighteen votes.
Eliphalet Trask of Springfield, fourteen votes.
Oliver A. Brown of North Adams two votes.
For Secretary.
Oliver Warner of Northampton, five hundred and five votes.
Benjamin F. Mills of Williamstown one hundred and sixteen votes.
Georgia S. Ball of Upton, fourteen votes.
For Treasurer & Receiver General.
Charles Adams Jr. of North Brookfield, five hundred and three votes.
Nathan Clark of Lynn, one hundred and sixteen votes.
John I. Baker of Beverly fourteen votes.
And W. Stoddard of North Bridgewater, two votes.
For Auditor.
Charles Endicott of Canton, five hundred and three votes.
Waldo Coburn of Dedham, one hundred and sixteen votes.
Lyman W. Daggett of Attleborough, fourteen votes.
Henry B. Maglathlin of Duxbury, two votes.
For Attorney General.
Charles R. Train of Boston, five hundred and three votes.
C. Osgood Morse of Newburyport, one hundred and fifteen votes.
Whiting Griswold of Greenfield, fourteen votes.
Charles Cowley of Lowell, two votes.
For Councillor for District Number Five.
Daniel H. Stickney of Groveland, four hundred and four votes.
John S. Glover of Ipswich, one hundred and sixteen votes.
Cyrus Story of Gloucester, fourteen votes.
For Register of Probate and Insolvency.
Abner C. Goodell Jr. of Salem, four hundred and ninety-nine votes.
Jonathan Nayson of Amesbury, one hundred and eighteen votes.
John W. Berry of Lynn, fourteen votes.
For Register of Deeds for the Southern District of Essex.
Ephraim Brown of Salem, five hundred and ten votes.
Henry W. Putnam of Salem one hundred and twelve votes.
Samuel Porter of Beverly, fourteen votes.
For County Commissioner.
Zachariah Graves of Lynn, four hundred ninety-five votes.
Joseph S. Howe of Methuen, one hundred and sixteen votes.
Benjamin K. Prentiss of Lynn, fourteen votes.
For County Treasurer.
Allen W. Dodge of Hamilton, five hundred and four votes.
Daniel B. Lord of Salem, one hundred and fifteen votes.
James H. Kidder of Lawrence, fourteen votes.
For Senator for the Fifth Essex District.
Charles Fitz of Manchester, four hundred seventy-nine votes.
George A. Priest of Manchester one hundred fifty-five votes
Daniel W. Friend of Manchester fourteen votes.
Edward L. Giddings of Beverly, two votes.
B. H. Corliss of Gloucester, two votes.
For Two Representatives to the General Court for the Tenth Essex District.
Francis E. Porter of Beverly, three hundred fifty-nine votes.
John B. Hill of Beverly, four hundred and 6 votes.
Andrew E. Story of Beverly, one hundred ninety-five votes.
Eleazer Giles of Beverly, one hundred eighty-six votes.
John H. Cheever of Manchester, fifty-seven votes.
Ezra O. Woodberry of Beverly two votes.
N. H. Webb of Beverly, John H. Woodberry of Beverly, James Stone of Beverly, Davenport Tuck
of Beverly, Reuben Wiley of Beverly, Eben Rogers Jr. of Beverly, James Hill of Beverly, Joseph L.
Wilson of Beverly, one vote each.
John I. Baker
James HillSelectmen
Freeborn W. Cressy of
Nathan H. Webb Beverly
Nathan H. Foster
Attest.
James Hill
Town Clerk