1844-12-23 ElectionEssex, ss. Beverly. To one of the Constables of said Town, Greeting-
You are
hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to notify and warn (in the usual
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manner) the qualified voters of said Town to meet at the Town Hall on Monday the 23 day of
December inst. at Nine o’clock before noon-
To give in their ballots
for a Representative in the next Congress from District No. 2.
The poll will open at 9
o’clock A.M. and close at 4 o’clock P.M.Hereof fail not but make
due return of this warrant before said time with your doings thereon.
Given under our hands
and seal this thirteenth day of December A.D. 1844.
Wm. H. Lovett
Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen
J. Israel Baker of
Edwin Woodberry Beverly
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Beverly December 13 A.D. 1844 - Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the
persons therein named as therein directed - Francis Lamson, Constable.
At a legal meeting of the qualified voters of the town of Beverly held at the Town Hall on
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Monday, December 23 A.D. 1844, at Nine o’clock A.M. pursuant to the foregoing warrant.
The Electors preceded to give in their ballots for a Representative in the next Congress from District
Number Two, and the whole number of persons who gave in their votes was ascertained as is directed
in the Revised Statutes (Chap. 4, Sec. 13) by counting the number of separate ballots given in, and
the whole number of ballots was - five hundred and eighty-four -
And the whole number of votes given in were sorted and counted, recorded and declaration
thereof made as by law is directed - and were for the following persons:
Daniel P. King of Danvers - three hundred and fifty-six votes.
George Hood of Lynn, one hundred and sixty-five votes.
Henry B. Stanton of Chelsea - sixty-three votes.
Attest.
John I. Baker, Town Clerk