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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