1846-12-28 ElectionEssex, ss. To one of the Constables of the town of Beverly - Greeting -
You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to notify and warn (in
the usual manner) the qualified voters of said Town to meet at the Town Hall on Monday the twenty-
eighth day of December current, at nine o’clock, for noon:-
To give in their votes for a Representative from District
Number Two, in the next Congress of the United States -
The poll will open at nine o’clock, before noon, and
close at four o’clock afternoon -
Hereof fail not, but make due return of this warrant with
the doings thereon before said time -
Given under our hands and seal this eighteenth day of
December, in the year, eighteen hundred and forty-six.
Wm. H. LovettSelectmen
John I. Baker of
Haskett D. Whitney Beverly
Essex, ss. December 19 A.D. 1846 - Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the
persons therein named as therein directed -
Jacob Lunt,
Constable of Beverly
A true record of the original warrant and return thereon -
Attest,
John I. Baker, Town Clerk
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 twenty-eighth day of December being the last Monday of said month,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, 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, Sect.
13) by counting the number of separate ballots given in, and the whole number of ballots was - Three
hundred and ninety.
And the whole number
of votes given in, were sorted, counted, recorded, and declaration thereof made as by law is directed -
and were for the following persons:-
Daniel P. King, of Danvers, Two hundred and ninety-six votes
George W. Dike, of Stoneham, Sixty seven votes
Lemuel Gott, of Rockport, Twenty two votes
Increase H. Brown of Marblehead, Two votes
Edward Burley of Beverly, One vote
Albert Thorndike of Beverly, One vote
John P. Roundy of Beverly, One vote
Ephraim Harris of Beverly, One vote