1854-11-13 ElectionCommonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, ss.
To one of the Constables of the town of Beverly - Greeting.
You are hereby required in the name of said Commonwealth, to notify and warn the qualified
voters of said Town, in the usual manner, to meet at the Town Hall on Monday the thirteenth day of
November instant, at nine o’clock A.M.
To see if the town will choose one or more Representatives to the next General Court, and
if they so decide, to give in their ballots, for the purpose of choosing the same.
Also, to give in their ballots for a Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth,
for Senators for the District of Essex, for one County Commissioner, and for a Representative to the
next Congress from District No. 6.
The ballots for said officers will be received on one piece of paper; the poll will open
immediately after deciding upon sending Representatives, and close at four o’clock P.M. unless
otherwise determined by the meeting.
Hereof fail not, but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon before said time.
Given under our hands and seal this third day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and
fifty four.
Wm. H. LovettSelectmen
Haskett D. Whitney of
Alpheus Davis Beverly
Beverly Nov. 4,1854. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the persons therein
named, by posting notices according to the Town Regulations at or near each public meeting house
in town.
Francis Lamson, Constable of Beverly.
A true record of the original warrant and of the return thereon. -
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
Monday November 13,1854 at nine o’clock A.M. pursuant to the foregoing warrant -
Voted, to send two Representatives to the next General Court.
Voted, to close the polls at four o’clock P.M..
The electors then proceeded to give in their ballots for Representatives and for State and County
officers - and upon the closing of the polls the votes for Representatives were sorted & counted and
the results a ascertained according to law to be as follows -
Whole number of ballots for Representatives - six hundred and fifty three -
Necessary to a choice - three hundred and twenty seven
And said ballots were for the following persons -
John B. Hill, four hundred and seven votes
William Porter, three hundred and eighty seven votes
Levi A. Abbott, two hundred and eleven votes
Amos Lefavour, two hundred votes
John Bradshaw, twenty seven votes
David Crowell, twenty five votes
John I. Baker, twelve votes - Joseph E. Ober eleven votes - Zachariah Cole, two votes - and the
following had one vote each - William Endicott, Lawson Walker, Thomas A. Morgan, John Porter,
Thomas B. Smith, John Knowlton, John G. Smith, Daniel Foster, Benjamin Wallis Jr., H. D. Whitney,
Stephen Lovett, Dean Chapman.
John B. Hill and William Porter having more than the number requisite to a choice were duly elected
and so declared to be in open town meeting.
The whole number of ballots for County Commissioners was six hundred sixty three, and they
were for the following persons
Stephens Baker of Beverly three hundred votes
John I. Baker of Beverly two hundred and forty seven votes
Andrew Dodge of Wenham ninety two votes
Rufus Slocumb of Haverhill, twenty four votes
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, holden on the 13 State n; being the second Monday of said month, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, for the purpose of giving in their votes for governor and
Lieutenant Governor of said Commonwealth, the home lumber of persons who gave in their votes
was ascertained, as is directed in the Revised Statutes, (Chap. 4, Sec.13,) by counting the whole
number of separate ballots given in; and the whole number of ballots was six hundred and forty four.
And the whole number of votes given in for Governor were sorted, counted, and recorded,
and declaration thereof made, as by the Constitution is directed; and said votes were for the following
persons, viz.:-
For Governor.
Henry J. Gardner of Boston, three hundred and forty one votes
Amory Washburn of Worcester, one hundred and eighty six votes
Henry Wilson of Natick, ninety votes
Henry W. Bishop of Lenox, thirty one votes
Charles Allen of Worcester, six votes
Wm. H. Lovett
H. D. WhitneySelectmen
A. C. Baker of
Joseph E. Ober Beverly
Alpheus Davis
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, holden on the thirteenth day of November, being the second Monday of said month, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, for the purpose of giving in their votes
for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of said Commonwealth, 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 whole number of separate ballots given in; and the whole number of ballots was six
hundred and fifty eight.
And the whole number of votes given in for Lieutenant Governor were sorted, counted and
recorded, and declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is directed; and said votes were for the
following persons, viz.:-
For Lieutenant Governor
Simon Brown of Concord, three hundred and fifty three votes
Increase Sumner of Great Barrington, eighty seven votes
William C. Plunkett of Adams, one hundred and eighty nine votes
Caleb Stetson of Braintree, twenty eight votes
Charles Friend of Beverly, one vote
Wm. H. Lovett
H. D. WhitneySelectmen
A. C. Baker of
Alpheus Davis Beverly
Jos. E. Ober
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 Senators, holden on the
thirteenth day of November, being the second Monday of said month, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty four, for the purpose of giving in their votes for Senators for the
District of Essex, 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 six hundred and fifty eight.
And the whole number of votes were sorted, counted and recorded, and declaration thereof
made as by the Constitution is directed; and said votes were for the following persons, viz.:-
James D. Black of Danvers, three hundred and fifty six votes
Streeter Evans of Salisbury, three hundred and fifty five votes
John Batchelder of Lynn, three hundred and fifty four votes
Moses Tenney Jr. of Georgetown, three hundred and fifty four votes
Stephen Huse of Methuen, three hundred and fifty four votes
Wm. N. Cleveland of Topsfield, one hundred and eighty six votes
Nathaniel Silsbee of Salem, one hundred and eighty votes
Henry G. Gray of Marblehead, one hundred and seventy five votes
Jeremiah Coleman of Newburyport, one hundred and eighty seven votes
Joseph W. Carlton of Methuen, one hundred and eighty four votes
Richard P. Waters of Beverly, eighty seven votes
Marcus Morton Jr. of Andover, eighty three votes
Benjamin F. Mudge of Lynn, eighty six votes
Josiah G. White of Methuen, eighty one votes
John D. Cross of Ipswich, seventy nine votes
Samuel T. Deford of Newburyport, twenty eight votes
James M. Sargent of Lynn, thirty one votes
John H. Gregory of Marblehead, twenty eight votes
Eben H. Safford of Haverhill, twenty eight votes
Moses Tarr of Gloucester, twenty eight votes
William H. Lovett of Beverly, three votes
Wm. H. Lovett
H. D. WhitneySelectmen
Jos. E. Ober of
Alpheus Davis Beverly
A. C. Baker
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 November, being the second Monday of said month,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, for the purpose of giving in their votes for a
Representative of said Commonwealth, in the Congress of the United States, for District Number Six-
The whole number of persons who gave in their votes was ascertained as 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 six hundred and forty one.
And the whole number of votes given in was sorted, counted and recorded, and declaration
thereof made as by law is directed; and said votes were for the following persons, viz.:-
Timothy Davis of Gloucester, three hundred and forty two votes
Charles W. Upham of Salem, two hundred and seventy five votes
Nathaniel J. Lord of Salem, twenty three votes
George Hood of Lynn, one vote
Wm. H. Lovett
H. D. WhitneySelectmen
Jos.E. Ober of
Alpheus Davis Beverly
A. C. Baker