1846-05-04 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 the qualified voters of said town of Beverly, in the usual manner, to meet at the Town Hall on
Monday the fourth day of May next, at one o’clock in the afternoon - for the purpose of electing a
Register of Deeds for said County for the term of five years from the last annual meeting of said
Town, agreeably to a notice from the County Commissioners of said County of Essex - the poll will
close at three o’clock P.M. unless otherwise ordered by the town.
The first business will be to decide the manner of choosing Moderator, and to choose the
same-
Hereof fail not, but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon before said time-
Given under our hands and seal, this twenty fifth day of April, in the year Eighteen hundred & forty
six.
Wm. H. LovettSelectmen
John I. Baker of
Haskett D. Whitney Beverly
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Beverly, April 27, 1846 - Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons
therein named, as therein directed,
William D. Crosfield, Constable all of Beverly.
At a legal meeting of the qualified voters of the town of Beverly, in the County of Essex
holden on the fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six,
(at one o’clock afternoon, pursuant to the above warrant, when said meeting voted to choose a
Moderator by hand vote, and Wm. H. Lovett was thus chosen - and the Town voted, to close the poll
at 3 o’clock P.M.) The votes of the Inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote for Representatives
in the General Court, for a Register of Deeds, having been duly received, were sorted in open Town
Meeting by the Moderator thereof, and the Town Clerk, and were as follows: Whole number of
ballots - One hundred and four, votes.
ForRalph H. French, Thirty nine votes.
John I. Baker, Thirty four votes.
Eleazar M. Dalton, Sixteen votes.
Jonathan Shove of Danvers, Eight votes.
Jonathan Nayson, Six votes.
Haskell D. Whitney of Beverly, one vote - and the meeting then dissolved.
Attest. John I. Baker
Town Clerk