1843-02-13 ElectionTo Essex, ss. To one of Constables of the town of Beverly.
Greeting.
You are hereby required in the
name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to notify & warn the qualified voters of said town by
posting notices per Town Regulations, to meet at the Town Hall on Monday the thirteenth day of
February instant at nine o’clock in the forenoon for the purpose of giving in their votes for a
Representative to the next Congress of the United States from District Number Two.
The poll will open at nine o’clock A.M. and close at four o’clock P.M.
Hereof fail not but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon before said time.
Given under our hands & seal this first day of February A.D. 1843.
Wm. H. LovettSelectmen
John I. Baker of
John Wilson Beverly
th
Essex, ss. Beverly February 8 A.D. 1843.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons therein named as therein directed.
Wm. D. Crosfield
Constable of Beverly.
A true record.
Attest. Edw. Bradstreet.
Town Clerk.
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of Beverly in the County of Essex and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, qualified by the Constitution to vote for Representatives in the
General Court, holden on the thirteenth day of February, being the second Monday of said month,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, for the purpose of giving in their votes for
a Representative of said Commonwealth in the Congress of the United States for District Number
Two.
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
Seven hundred & eighty-nine.
And the whole number of votes given in was sorted, counted, recorded, and declaration thereof made,
as by Law is directed - and were for the following persons:
Leverett Saltonstall of Salem. Two hundred & seventy-nine279
Robert Rantoul Jr. of Beverly. Three hundred & eighty-four.384
David H. Barlow of Lynn. Ninety-six.96
David Pingree, of Salem. Three.3
William B. Dodge, of Salem. Nineteen.19
M. P. Hanson, of Salem. Three.3
C. L. Remmonds, of Salem. Two.2
Allen W. Dodge, of Hamilton. One.1
H. E. Story of Beverly. One.1
Stephen C. Phillips of Salem. One.1
Wm. H. LovettSelectmen
Edward T. Proctor of
John I. Baker Beverly
Joseph E. Ober
John Wilson
A true record.
Att.Edward Bradstreet, Town Clerk