1844-03-11Essex, ss. To one of the Constables of the town of Beverly - Greeting-
You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the usual
manner to notify and warn the qualified voters of said town to meet at the Town Hall on Monday the
eleventh day of March current at nine o’clock before noon to act on the following articles, viz.:
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1. To choose a Moderator.
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2. To choose Town Officers for the ensuing year and grant them such pay for their services as the
Town think proper.
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3. To give in their ballots for a County Treasurer for the ensuing year.
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4. To adopt such measures, grant such sums of money and make such regulations respecting
schools including the petition of F. W. Choate and others for the establishment of a High School as
the Town think proper.
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5. To see if the Town will restore and put in full force the seventh section of the Bylaws of the
Town relating to smoking in the streets etc. On petition of Albert Thorndike and others.
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6. To see if the Town will defend the suit brought against Herbert S. Smith for distraining the cattle
of P. Hammond and indemnify said Smith for his trouble and expenses incurred under said suit.
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7. To see if the Town will allow the residents on Elm Square to work out their highway taxes for
five years to come on the way so-called according to petition of James Foster and others.
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8. To see if the Town will raise the wall or breastwork on the westerly side of Knowlton Street and
build a sidewalk from Knowlton Street to Dane Street agreeably to petition of Israel Trask and
others.
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9. To see if the Town will rebuild and lower the sluiceway of the bridge on the old Road near the
dwelling house of Henry Brower according to petition of Benjamin Smith and others.
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10. To see if the Town will widen the causeway near Cedar Swamp as laid out by the Co.
Commissioners and take measures to extend Standley Street to Essex Street by a new location or
repair the remaining old way - per petition - J. Appleton & others.
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11. To see if the Town will petition the County Commissioners to widen and straighten the highway
called Hull’s Lane at Mt. Serat [i.e. Montserrat] and also to new locate any new way from near the
house of James Dunn over land of R. D. Morgan - P. Corning - or in such other direction as may be
deemed expedient to Wenham line - per petition L. Morgan & others.
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12. To adopt such measures, grant such sums of money, and make such regulations respecting
highways in the Town as they think proper.
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13. To grant such sums of money to be raised and assessed on the polls and estates within the Town
for the debts of the Town and expenses of the current year, and make such allowances and
regulations and allowances respecting the same as they deem expedient - Hereof fail not but make
due return of this warrant with your doings thereon before said time.
Given under our hands
and seal this first day of March A. D. 1844.
Wm. H. LovettSelectmen
John I. Baker of
John Wilson Beverly
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Beverly March 4 A. D. 1844. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons
therein named as therein directed.
Francis Lamson, Constable.
A true record of the original warrant and return
Attest. John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
At a legal meeting of the qualified voters of the town of Beverly held pursuant to the foregoing
warrant on Monday the eleventh day of March Eighteen hundred and forty-four at nine o’clock before
noon - the same being the annual March meeting.
Voted, that Albert Thorndike be Moderator. Unanimous.
Prayers were then offered by Rev. C. T. Thayer in absence of Rev. C. H. Webster who was
expected to officiate on this occasion.
Voted, that John I. Baker be Town Clerk, a motion to elect all ballot officers on one ticket having
been previously rejected.
Then John I. Baker was sworn faithfully and impartially to
perform the duties of Town Clerk for the current year and until another is qualified in his stead - in
open Town Meeting - Before - Albert Thorndike, Moderator.
Voted, that Wm. H. Lovett, Joseph E. Ober, Edward T. Proctor, John I. Baker and Haskett D.
Whitney be Selectmen.
Voted, to choose Assessors & Treasurer & Collector at one balloting.
Voted, that John Porter 2nd, Jonathan Lovett Jr., Charles Davis, Benjamin Preston Jr. and Francis
Lamson be Assessors.
Voted, that John P. Roundy be Treasurer and Collector.
Noon having arrived, the meeting was adjourned to half past one o’clock this afternoon - at
which time the meeting again assembled and
Voted, to choose the remaining Town officers by hand vote except S. Comttee. [i.e. School
Committee] & Inspector.
Voted, that Henry Larcom, Robert Rantoul, John Safford, Stephens Baker, and Andrew Ober be
Overseers of the Poor.
Voted, by ballot, that Robert Rantoul, Stephens Baker, Edward Pousland be School Committee -
there being nine vacancies they were referred to the adjournment of this meeting in April for choice.
Voted, by ballot, that Ezra O. Woodberry be Inspector of Police.
Voted, that John Beckford, Samuel Dike & Abiel Wales be Auditors.
Voted, that Francis Lamson, Ezra O. Woodberry, William D. Crosfield, and David Larcom be
Constables.
Voted, that William H. Lovett, Andrew W. Standley & Samuel Woodberry be Board of Health.
Voted, that William H. Lovett, Jesse Sheldon, Issacher O. Foster, William. Putnam, John Bradshaw,
Ezra Batchelder, William Friend, James Stone, Seaward Lee, John Meacom, Richard J. Preston, John
Ober & William Webber be Surveyors of Lumber.
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Voted, that John Porter 2 & Joseph E. Ober be Surveyors of Shingles and Clapboards.
Voted, that Thomas P. Smith and Ezra O. Woodberry be Sealers of Leather.
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Voted, that John Proctor 2, Thomas Whittredge and John Meacom be Fence Viewers.
Voted, that Philip E. Ober be Inspector of Lime.
Voted, that Jonathan Batchelder be Clerk of the Market.
Voted, that Charles Moulton be Pound Keeper.
The following officers were also elected in their several wards.
Surveyors of HighwaysWardField Drivers
Isaac Smith1Joseph L. Ober
Samuel Ober 2d2Jeremiah Woodberry Jr.
Edward Perry3Benjamin Torrey
David Standley4Zebulon Burnham
William. H. Lovett5James Brazil - Edward G. Joseph
Thomas Farris6Emerson Herrick
Ezra Cleaves7Zachariah Cole
Saml. D. G. Standley8Robert Brown
Benjamin Ludden9Benjn. Burchstead
Benjamin Woodberry10Nathaniel Ham
James Friend11Adam Nesmith
Aaron Dodge12James F. Butman
Seth Friend13George Southwick
Jacob Symonds14Alvin L. Dodge
The votes for County Treasurer were then received and sorted & counted in open Town
Meeting by the Moderator and Town Clerk and were as follows: - number of ballots one hundred &
twenty-three.
For William F. Wade of Ipswich one hundred and twenty votes.
David C. Foster of Beverly one vote.
Edwin M. Stone of Beverly one vote.
John Wyer of Beverly one vote.
The Auditors Report showing the expenses of last year at $7938.65 was then accepted by the
Town.
The Selectmen’s Report on guide boards, expenses & estimates was also accepted.
The Fireward’s Report on the condition of the Fire Department was also accepted and the thanks of
the Town voted.
The Board of Health stating the whole number of deaths the past year at 109 - 65 adults - 53
males - 59 females - 1 over 90 - 3 over 80 - 14 over 70 years of age - 27 consumptions - twenty
fevers - was also accepted with the thanks of the Town.
The Overseers Report stating the whole number of persons who have been in the Workhouse
during the year ending March 1, at 45 - 22 men, 20 women & 3 children - at that date there were 22
subjects in the House - 13 men - 9 women - more than one-third of whom are 70 years old & upward
- 7 are more or less insane - one idiot & 2 non-compos - the remaining 12 are mostly age or disease
incapacitated for labor - the average number for the year has been about 24 - the deaths have been
three adult females & one infant born in the house - 2 males & 2 females have during the year been
committed to the house as common drunkards - the general conduct of the subjects is commended
for order, sobriety & decency which is attributed mainly to the temperance reform - orders drawn
$1228.44 cts. of this $332.22 cts. have been expended for the relief of persons out of the home - This
report was accepted with the thanks of the Town.
The School Committee report was also accepted with the thanks for their services.
Bald Hill R. H. King teacher - total scholars 57, average 43, present 40.
Bass River L. Dodge teacher - total scholars 78, average 60, present 66.
Cove L. S. Fairfield teacher - total scholars 97, average 77, present 90.
Dodge’s Row Isaac T. Galoux teacher - not examined in consequence of sickness
East Farms N. B. Rogers teacher - total scholars 69, average 52, present 57
Grammar by Lefavour & H. J. Weld teacher - total scholars 160 average 63 present 87
Ryal Sideteacher - same as Dodge’s Row
South J. A. Monroe & W. Phillips teacher - total scholars 69 average 56, present 38
Washington W. W. Leland teacher - total scholars 96 average 66, present 56
West Farms J. G. Dodge teacher - total scholars 69 average 56, present 63
Nearly all the school houses were found in good condition & the interiors of many of them
tastefully decorated with evergreens. The punctuality and regularity of attendance and also the
classification have improved - though there are great evils yet to remedy - the increased number of
visits at the annual examinations evinced increased interest in the community.
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On the 4 Article, In relation to schools including High School - After a discussion in which Israel
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Foster 2, Samuel Dike, Edward Pousland, John Hood, Robert Rantoul, John Trask 2, Luke
Morgan, John Morgan, and others participated during which - propositions to refer the whole subject
to a committee - to raise the sum of $3500 - and to appropriate $200 under the general direction of
the School Committee - were severally rejected then it was
Voted, that the Selectmen appropriate the money raised for schools which is hereby voted to be
twenty-five percent additional in amount to any sum raise by the Town prior to 1840 - among the
several school districts according to the several rated polls therein.
Voted, that the petition of F. W. Choate & others for a high school be indefinitely postponed.
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On the 5 Article, In relation to smoking in the Streets, etc.
Voted, to adopt and re-enact the following Bylaw of the Town,
“No Person shall smoke or have in his possession any lighted pipe or cigar in any street,
Highway, Lane, passage way, public place or public building, between the setting and rising of the
sun, under the penalty of one dollar for each offense.”
Voted, that Hon. Robert Rantoul be a committee to present the foregoing bylaws to the Court of
Common Pleas for their approval if in his judgment the same should be necessary.
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On the 6 Article - In relation to defending Herbert S. Smith-
Voted, that the whole subject be indefinitely postponed
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On the 7 Article - In relation to Elm Square
Voted, that the petitioners have leave to work out their highway taxes on said square for five years
under direction of Surveyor.
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On the 8 Article - on Knowlton Street Breastwork-
Voted, that the prayer of the petition be granted not exceeding twenty-five dollars under direction
of Surveyor.
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On the 9 Article - on Bridge on Old Road near H. Brower’s.
Voted, that the prayer of the petition be granted under direction of the Selectmen.
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On the 10 Article - In relation to Cedar Swamp Causeway etc.
Voted, that the whole subject be indefinitely postponed.
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On the 11 Article - In regard to Hull’s Lane-
Voted, that the whole subject be referred to the Selectmen to report at the adjournment of this
meeting.
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On the 12 Article - On Highways.
Voted, that the sum of seven hundred dollars be and is hereby appropriated for the repair of
Highways in the Town.
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On the 13 Article - Relating to raising money.
Voted, that the sum of eight thousand dollars be raised and assessed on the polls and estates within
the Town for the purpose of defraying the debts of the Town and the expenses of the current year.
Voted, that the Treasurer and Collector be fully authorized in behalf of the inhabitants of this Town
under the direction of the Selectmen to hire such sums of money to settle the debts and outstanding
orders of the Town as said Selectmen may deem expedient.
Voted, that the Treasurer and Collector deliver or cause to be delivered at the residence of each
inhabitant of the Town as soon as may be after the taxes are made, a bill of the taxes he has been
doomed to pay by the Assessors, and that five percent discount be allowed on all Town taxes paid
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on or before the 30 day of September next - and all taxes not paid on or before the first day of
January next shall be immediately put in suit commencing with the largest and so on to the smallest
tax.
Voted, that the Treasurer and Collector have two and one half percent on all taxes collected, for his
services and that he be expected to call on all persons for their taxes subject to the previous vote.
A motion was here made that the friends of Temperance be allowed the use of the Town Hall
free of expense - and also one that ten dollars per evening be exacted for the use of the Hall for all
persons from out-of-town - both of which were decided to be out of order.
The following motion was then submitted by Stephens Baker Esq. - and although liable to the
same objection of the two proceeding of not being in the Warrant yet being only a matter of inquiry
it passed without opposition
Voted, that a committee of Three be chosen to ascertain if the land recently belonging to the Heirs
of the late Josiah Woodberry deceased adjoining the Town burial grounds can be purchased and on
what terms and report at the adjournment of this meeting and if necessary the Selectmen be requested
to insert an article in the warrant for the adjournment so that the Town may legally act upon the
report of said committee; and that said committee be nominated from the chair to and accordingly
Stephens Baker, Paul Hildreth, and William H. Lovett were appointed under said vote.
Voted, that when this meeting adjourn it be to Tuesday the second day of April next at two o’clock
afternoon.
Voted, that this meeting be now adjourned, which was accordingly so declared to be by the
Moderator.
Attest.
John I. Baker, Town Clerk
Essex, ss. To the Constable of the town of Beverly - GREETING.
You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the usual
manner to notify and warn the qualified voters of said Town to meet at the Town Hall on Monday
the first day of April next at one o’clock afternoon for the purpose of giving in their ballots for Three
County Commissioners, and Two Special Commissioners within and for our county of Essex - Th
ballots will be received on one piece of paper, and the poll will be closed at four o’clock p.m. unless
the meeting otherwise determine.
In pursuance of the same authority you are hereby required to
notify said voters to meet at said Hall on Tuesday the second day of April next at nine o’clock before
noon for the following purposes:
1st. To decide the manner of choosing a Moderator and to choose the same.
2d. To act on the report of the Selectmen of their laying out a Town way from Cabot Street as the
private way now runs over land formally belonging to the late Nathan Dane and to Abner Chapman
to land of late Hezekiah Wallis said way having been called Federal Street heretofore.
3d. To act on the report of the Selectmen of their laying out another Town way leading from Cabot
Street as the private way now runs passing between the dwelling houses of Thomas Remmonds and
Lydia Wallis and by the dwelling houses of Anderson Glidden, Zachariah Whitmarsh and Ebenezer
Moses to the Town way as laid out by us as in Article second of this warrant.
4th. To take any measures deemed necessary to purchase and prepare land for Burial Grounds for
the Town, per report of committee etc..
5th. To take any measures deemed expedient in regard to the use of the Town Hall for Temperance
meetings free of expense - or in regard to any other use of the Hall - per vote of Temperance
Meetings etc.
6th. To see if the Town will repeal any Bylaw of the Town which forbids smoking any lighted pipe
or cigar in any street, highway, lane, passage way or public place, by any person between the setting
and rising of the sun - per petition of J.P. Haskell and others.
7th. To see if the Town will remonstrate with the City of Salem authorities against granting licenses
for the sale of intoxicating liquors - and will take measures for prosecuting all violations of the
License Law either in Town or elsewhere - per petition of F. Lamson & others.
8th. To revise and accept the list of Jurors as prepared by the Selectmen.
The annual March meeting stands adjourned to Tuesday afternoon 2d inst. at two o’clock.
And the regular monthly meeting of the Selectmen will be held at their office on Monday
forenoon at nine o’clock the 1st. instant. Hereof fail not but make due return of this warrant before
said time - Given under our hands and seal this twenty third day of March A.D.1844.
Wm. H. LovettSelectmen
Haskett D. Whitney of
John I. Baker Beverly
Essex, ss. pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons therein named persons to
meet at the times and place specified and for the purposes enumerated.
William D. Crosfield, Constable of Beverly.
A true record of the original warrant & return.
Attest. John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Beverly in the county of Essex held agreeably to law
for the choice of three County Commissioners and Two Special Commissioners for said county on
the first Monday of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four , the
qualified voters of said Town brought in their written votes on one ballot for three County
Commissioners and Two Special Commissioners, being all inhabitants of different Towns in said
county and the Selectmen of said Town in open Town Meeting sorted and counted the votes and the
ballots and made public declaration thereof, and the Town Clerk of said Town entered in the Town
records the whole number of ballots, the names of all persons voted for and the number of votes for
each, and the following is a copy of such record, duly signed, attested, and sealed up in open Town
meeting.
The whole number of ballots for County
Commissioners was one hundred & forty-seven
And the votes were for the following persons-
Charles Kimball of Ipswich one hundred & twenty nine votes.
Robert Patten of Amesbury one hundred & twenty nine votes.
William Whipple of Rockport one hundred & twenty eight votes.
Jonathan Shove of Danvers twelve votes.
John Tenney of Methuen thirteen votes.
William Ferron of Gloucester twelve votes.
Asa W. Wildes of Newburyport three votes
Asa T. Newhall of Lynnfield three votes.
Stephen A. Chase of Salem two votes.
Moses Newell of Newbury one vote.
John Page of Danvers one vote.
Mark Pitman of Salem one vote.
Israel Trask 2d of Beverly one vote.
Oliver Parsons of Salem one vote.
Benjamin F. Newhall of Saugus one vote.
Dexter Dana of Newburyport one vote.
Lemuel Gott of Rockport two votes.
Nathan Putnam of Salem one vote.
And the whole number of ballots for Special Commissioners was one hundred and forty-six
And were for the following persons.
Benjamin F. Newhall of Saugus one hundred & twenty six votes.
John Safford of Beverly one hundred & twenty four votes.
Patten Sargent of Amesbury twelve votes.
Moses Dorman Jr. of Boxford twelve votes.
William Johnson of Andover for votes.
George Haskell of Ipswich two votes.
Lawson Walker of Beverly two votes.
Stephens Baker of Beverly one vote.
Isaac Galoux of Beverly one vote.
Abraham Edwards of Beverly one vote.
Edward R. Dike of Haverhill one vote.
Ebenezer Hunt of Danvers one vote.
Abraham Caldwell of Ipswich one vote.
William Ferron of Gloucester one vote.
John Tenney of Methuen one vote.
Wm. H. LovettSelectmen
Joseph E. Ober of
Edward T. Proctor Beverly
Haskett D. Whitney
J. Israel Baker.
Attest.
John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
At a legal meeting of the qualified voters of the Town of Beverly held at the Town Hall on Tuesday
the second day of April A.D. 1844 at nine o’clock before noon - Voted. To choose Moderator by
hand vote.
Voted, said Albert Thorndike be Moderator.
On the second Article in the Warrant - laying out a Town way - the Selectmen reported as
follows: and also on the third Article - viz.: Beverly March 23rd 1844. We the undersigned
Selectmen of the Town of Beverly agreeably to the petition of Henry Larcom and others having
according to law given due notice to all persons interested in the laying out of the following Town
ways have viewed the premises herein after mentioned and do for the convenience of said inhabitants
of said Town lay out one Town way as follows viz: Forty feet wide the northerly line or side thereof
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commencing at a point on the westerly side of Cabot Street, 15 feet S.16 40' minutes from the
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southeasterly corner of Dr. Ingalls Kittredge’s dwelling house - thence running N. 63 West as the
private way now runs 72 rods 14 feet to the land of late Hezekiah Wallis, and we have named the
foregoing Town way Federal Street and no person having sustained any damages by the laying out
said way we award damages to no person-
And we do also for the convenience of said inhabitants layout another Town way as follows viz: Two
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rods wide commencing on the westerly side of Cabot Street at a point 6 feet N.17 E. from the
northwesterly corner of the dwelling house of Capt. Thomas Remmond’s and running N.W. 18 ½
rods to land of late Hezekiah Wallis’s estate - the said way to lie and extend 2 rods northerly of the
line aforesaid - the course runs then south 27 degrees west 26 rods to 8 feet southeasterly of the
southeast corner of late William Pousland’s house - the said way to lie and extend 2 rods northerly
of the line last mentioned and we have named the foregoing way Chapman Street and no person
having sustained any damage by the laying out said way we award damages to no person.
John I. Baker
Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen of Beverly
Edward T. Proctor
Voted, to accept said report and establish said Federal Street and said Chapman Street as Town
Ways, provided no person interested makes any legal claim for damages within the time required by
law for the application for an assessment thereof.
The following report was then presented from the Committee on the subject of Burial
Grounds-
The Committee appointed at the annual
March Meeting to ascertain if the land adjoining the Town Burying Grounds can be purchased and
on what terms and report at the adjournment, have attended to the duty assigned them and
respectfully submit the following report. They visited upon Josiah Lovett 2d who very recently
purchased seven acres and upwards of land of the Heirs of the late Josiah Woodberry deceased, who
informed your committee that he had no wish to dispose of said land, having for a long time been
desirous of purchasing the same for his own improvement, but being fully sensible of the importance
of the Town owning said land in consequence of its being so intimately connected with land already
belonging to the Town and used for burial purposes has very generously as your committee think
offered to sell to the Town, the Town to make the fence, three acres of said land next adjoining land
of the Town for the sum of one hundred dollars the acre, or he will sell the whole lot for eighty
dollars the acre for the above purpose.
Your Committee could not but observe while viewing the grounds the importance of securing
a piece of land belonging to Ephraim Harris and containing about half an acre situated between the
two burying grounds and extending the whole width of one of them and they took the liberty of
asking his price for the same. His lowest price is one hundred and seventy five dollars reserving the
wall and the fruit trees standing upon the lot to himself. Your committee are of the opinion that this
lot is not worth the price asked for it for any purpose whatever.
Your committee agreeable to their instructions inquired of Jonathan Patch of what terms and
for the purposes aforesaid he would sell the land upon which his dwelling house and other buildings
now stand. He is of the opinion that it would be a serious inconvenience as well as that it would be
attended with considerable expense to remove his buildings and that he is not prepared to say on what
terms he would sell his land until he could find a lot that would accommodate him and should he be
successful in so doing he would sell his land to the Town for a fair compensation.
Your Committee would be very much gratified to see all land from the road leading by the
common to Sallow’s Bridge so-called enclosed with the present burying groundsbut as some of the
lands with the buildings thereon have recently been purchased by some of our citizens at a
considerable expense it would not we think be expedient to purchase at the present time, but would
recommend that the Selectmen be authorized when any of these lands are in the market and can be
purchased at a price which shall by them be deemed reasonable that they be duly empowered to
purchase the same in behalf of the Town to be enclosed with the burial grounds for the same
purposes.
Your committee are deeply impressed with the importance of our whole community being
interested in and owning the lands used for the burial of their dead in which all have some melancholy
an interest, and are of the opinion that another opportunity like the present for enlarging and
extending our burial grounds will not soon occur for securing so beautiful a location adjoining the
grounds already owned by the town, and which can be laid out with pleasant walks and ornamented
with trees for shade so as to attract the attention and visits of our citizens to the last resting place of
the bodies of their dear and beloved friends and by these means lead them to reflect more upon their
own mortality and thus be better prepared for their own departure out of this world which event will
sooner or later happen to all.
Your Committee unanimously recommend the immediate purchase of the whole land owned
by Josiah Lovett 2d which he recently purchased of the Heirs of the late Josiah Woodberry on the
terms named in this report which terms are much less than the price paid by the Town for about three
acres of land from this same field and that the money be raised and appropriate for the said purpose
under the direction of the Selectmen.
Your Committee would likewise further recommend that the Board of Health be authorized
to layout family lots so that said lots may be enclosed, if desired in the same manner as is done in
many other places and that any citizen of the Town desiring a family lot or square to be enclosed shall
have a deed of the same, by paying such price or prices as shall be affixed thereto by the Board of
Health and all sums accruing from the sale of the said family lot shall be expended for the
improvement of the said grounds - All which is respectfully submitted by
Stephens Baker
Paul HildrethCommittee
Wm. H. Lovett
Beverly April 2d 1844.
Voted, to accept said report and so far adopt its recommendations as hereby to fully authorize the
Selectmen to purchase the whole of said Woodberry land together with the dwelling house & lot
adjoining not to exceed five hundred dollars and also to hire the money to pay therefore; and also to
authorize the Selectmen for the time being at any time to purchase any lands contiguous to our
present burial grounds whenever they may deem it expedient: - and also to authorize the Board of
Health to layout said land into family lots according to their best judgment - and in behalf of the Town
to sell and give deeds of the same expending the receipts upon the improvement of the grounds ; this
authority to be fully in behalf of the inhabitants of this town.
On the 5th Article in the Warrant, in relation to the free use of the Town Hall for Temperance
Meetings, etc.
Voted, that the petitioners have leave to withdraw.
Voted, that the Selectmen be instructed to ask ten dollars in advance each evening for the use of the
Town Hall to all persons living out of the Town whether applied for by citizens of the Town or not -
this vote not to apply to such cases as the Selectmen judge to be beneficial to the Town at-large.
On the 6 Article, relating to cigar smoking.
Voted, that the petitioners have leave to withdraw and that the Selectmen be requested not to call
another meeting on that subject.
On the 7th Article, relating to prosecutions, licenses etc..
Voted, that the subject be indefinitely postponed.
Upon the 8th Article, the list of Jurors submitted by the Selectmen.
Voted, that the same be accepted, confirmed and established which as follows.
Isaac W. Baker - John I. Baker - Ezra Batchelder - Jonathan Batchelder - John Beckford - Cotton
Bennett -Augustus N. Clark - James Cressy - Alpheus Davis - Charles Davis - Samuel Dike -
Ebenezer Ellingwood - Ezra Ellingwood - Samuel Endicott - Wm. Endicott - Elbridge Fisk - David
C. Foster - Israel Foster 2d, Anderson Glidden - John L. Goldsbury - Robert Goodwin - Perkins
Haskell - Emerson Herrick - Luther Herrick - Daniel Hildreth - Paul Hildreth - Hezekiah Knowlton -
Edward Kilham - John Lamson - Wm. Lamson - Wm. Ward - Charles T. Lovett - Isaac R. Lovett -
John Lovett 2d, Jonathan H. Lovett - Josiah Lovett 2d, Wm. B. Lovett - Wm. H. Lovett - Samuel
Lummus - Benjn. S. Lunt Jr. - Joseph Masury - John Meacom - John Morgan - Augustus Moulton -
Andrew Ober - John Ober - Joseph E. Ober - Charles Perry - Jefferson Perry - John Pickett - John
Porter 2d, Edward Pousland - Benjn. Preston Jr. - Warren Prince - Peter Pride - Edward T. Proctor -
Wm. Putnam 2d, John P. Roundy - David L. Smith - Thos. B. Smith - Andrew W. Standley - Wells
Standley - Charles Stephens - Olphert Tittle - Calvin Tuck - John Tuck 2d, Joseph D. Tuck - Abiel
Wales - Caleb Wallis - Eleazar Wallis - Israel Wallis - Jeremiah Wallis - Haskett D. Whitney - Edwin
Woodberry - Francis Woodberry - Joseph Woodbury 2d, Samuel Woodberry - Tristram Woodberry.
The meeting was then dissolved by vote - Attest. John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
At the adjournment of the annual March meeting held at 2 o’clock afternoon of said Tuesday April
2d 1844 the following Town officers were chosen - Edwin Woodberry as Selectmen, Joseph E. Ober
having declined - Benjamin C. Sumner, Inspector of Lime - Wm. Standley, Surveyor Highways Ward
No. 7 - Azor Dodge No. 9 - Abram K. Young No. 12 - Daniel Foster, John Beckford, Ezra
Woodberry, Firewards - Jacob Lunt, Constable - Field Driver, Ward 4, Jeremiah Choate - 6. John
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E. Baker - 7. Benjamin Foster 2d, 9. Nathl. Porter - 10. Jonathan Moulton - 11. Israel Trask 4 -
12 . William E. Dodge - 13 Josiah Dudley - School Committee - C. T. Thayer, Joseph Abbott, C.
W. Flanders, E. M. Stone, J. Foote, G. T. Dole, S. Hale, W. Prince, A. Torrey.
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Beverly in the County of Essex, held agreeably
to law for the choice of three County Commissioners and two Special Commissioners to said County
on the twenty fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four,
the qualified voters of said Town brought in their written votes on one ballot for three County
Commissioners and two Special Commissioners, being all inhabitants of different Towns in said
County and the Selectmen of said Town in open Town Meeting sorted and counted the votes and the
ballots and made public declaration thereof, and the Town Clerk of said Town entered in the Town
records the whole number of ballots, the names of all persons voted for, and the number of votes for
each, and the following is a copy of such records, duly signed, attested and sealed up in open Town
meeting.
The whole number of ballots for County Commissioners was eighty-eight.
And the votes were for
Charles Kimball of Ipswich fifty five votes.
Benjamin F. Newhall of Saugus twenty votes.
William Carey of Amesbury nineteen votes.
Robert Patten of Amesbury thirty votes.
William Whipple of Rockport thirty seven votes.
Asa W. Wildes of Newburyport thirty one votes.
Nehemiah Brown of Salem thirty votes.
Asa T. Newhall of Lynnfield thirty votes.
Lemuel Gott of Rockport two votes.
Dexter Dana of Newburyport one vote.
Nathan Putnam of Salem one vote.
Moses Newell of West Newbury one vote.
The whole number of ballots for Special Commissioners was eighty-eight
And were for
John Safford of Beverly fifty five votes.
Royal A. Merriam of Topsfield nineteen votes.
Benjamin F. Newhall of Saugus thirty two votes
George Haskell of Ipswich thirty votes
William Johnson Jr. of Andover twenty eight votes.
David Choate of Essex one vote.
Ebenezer Hunt of Danvers two votes.
Robert Rantoul of Beverly one vote.
Lawson Walker of Beverly three votes.
Edward R. Dike of Haverhill one vote.
John S. Williams of Salem two votes.
Attest.
John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
Wm. H. Lovett
Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen
Edwin Woodberry of
J. Israel Baker Beverly