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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.: st 1. To choose a Moderator. d 2. To choose Town Officers for the ensuing year and grant them such pay for their services as the Town think proper. d 3. To give in their ballots for a County Treasurer for the ensuing year. th 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. th 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. th 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. th 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. th 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. th 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. th 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. th 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. th 12. To adopt such measures, grant such sums of money, and make such regulations respecting highways in the Town as they think proper. th 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 th 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. nd 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. nd 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. th On the 4 Article, In relation to schools including High School - After a discussion in which Israel ndnd 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. th 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. th On the 6 Article - In relation to defending Herbert S. Smith- Voted, that the whole subject be indefinitely postponed th 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. th 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. th 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. th On the 10 Article - In relation to Cedar Swamp Causeway etc. Voted, that the whole subject be indefinitely postponed. th 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. th 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. th 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 th 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 o commencing at a point on the westerly side of Cabot Street, 15 feet S.16 40' minutes from the o 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 o 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 th 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