1853-11-14 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, in the usual manner, the qualified voters of said town to meet at the Town Hall
on Monday the fourteenth day of November instant at nine o’clock before noon, for the following
purposes, viz.:
1st. To see if the town will send one or more persons to represent them in 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, and for Senators for the
District of Essex for the ensuing political year.
2d. To give in their ballots, Yea or Nay, upon the several propositions for the amendment of the
Constitution of the Commonwealth, submitted by the Convention delegates which assembled at
Boston in May last.
The votes for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Senators and Representatives will be received
on one-piece of paper in a sealed envelope, furnished as heretofore, or without an envelope as the
voter may elect.
The votes upon the several proposed amendments of the Constitution will be received on one
piece of paper in a separate sealed envelope according to law, and as said convention has directed.
Separate boxes will be provided for the deposit of the ballots of voters; one box will be for
the votes for Governor and the other officers on the same ticket; the other box to be for the votes on
the proposed amendments of the Constitution; and all votes not given in and deposited, in accordance
with the above requirements of law, will be rejected in the counting of the ballots.
Here of fail not, but make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, before said time.
Given on our hands and seal this third day of November in the year eighteen hundred and fifty three.
Wm. H. Lovett
H. D. WhitneySelectmen
Alpheus Davis of
Andrew C. Baker Beverly
Joseph E. Ober
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Beverly November 5 1853. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons
therein named as therein directed, by posting notices according to town regulations.
Benj. C. Sumner, 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 pursuant to the
foregoing warrant on Monday the fourteenth day of November 1853, at 9 o’clock A.M. at the Town
Hall -
Voted, To choose two Representatives to the next General Court, and that the polls be closed
a four o’clock this afternoon -
The ballots were then received for Representatives, and for the other purposes set forth in said
warrant, and at the close of the polls the ballots were sorted and counted, and the whole number of
ballots for Representatives was eight hundred and forty four - and the votes were for the following
persons-
Levi H. Abbott, four hundred votes
Amos Lefavour, three hundred and ninety nine votes
Joseph E. Ober, three hundred and eighty nine votes
William Porter, three hundred and eighty two votes
John Lovett, forty six votes
John Bradshaw, forty five votes
Josiah Stickney, four votes
Jonathan Smith, two votes
William Endicott, John Knowlton and Benjamin Larcom one vote each.
No person having four hundred and twenty three votes, the number necessary to a choice, no one is
elected.
The meeting then adjourned to Tuesday morning Nov. 15,1853 at 8 o’clock A.M. for the
choice of two Representatives, it which time the voters assembled and voted to close the poll at seven
o’clock afternoon. The votes for Representatives were then received until 7 o’clock P.M. when the
polls closed, and the votes sorted and counted, and the following results ascertained and declared.
Whole number 973. Necessary to a choice 487. Levi A. Abbott 477, Amos Lefavour 471, Joseph
E. Ober 445, William Porter 440, John Lovett 50, John Bradshaw 46, George Chapman, Josiah
Stickney, William Endicott, John E. Baker, John W. Lefavour, William Ward & Reuben Edwards one
each.
No person having the number requisite to a choice none is selected; and the meeting was dissolved.
Attest,John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
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 fourteenth day of November, being the second Monday of said month, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, 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 number of separate ballots given in, and the whole number of ballots was, for
Governor, eight hundred and forty five.
And the 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, Emory Washburn of Worcester, three hundred and eighty six votes
Henry W. Bishop of Lenox, two hundred and twenty five votes
Henry Wilson of Natick, two hundred and thirty three votes
George Chapman of Beverly, one vote
And the whole number of ballots for Lieutenant Governor was eight hundred and forty six.
And the 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,
William C. Plunkett of Adams, four hundred and forty two votes
Levi A. Dowley of Boston, two hundred and twenty five votes
Amos Walker of North Brookfield, one hundred and seventy seven votes
Henry Larcom of Beverly, one vote
Dean Chapman of Beverly, one vote
Wm. H. Lovett
Alpheus DavisSelectmen
Haskett D. Whitney of
Andrew C. Baker Beverly
Joseph E. Ober
Attest, John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
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
fourteenth day of November, being the second Monday of said month, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty three, 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 eight hundred and forty four.
And the 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..
Thomas Wright of Lawrence, three hundred and seventy three votes
Henry G. Gray of Marblehead, three hundred and seventy four votes
Thomas T. Pingree of Salem, three hundred and seventy one votes
James Haskell of Rockport, four hundred and seventy three votes
Isaac H. Boardman of Newburyport, three hundred and seventy six votes
Richard T. Waters of Beverly, four hundred and twenty two votes
Marcus Morton Jr. of Andover, four hundred and twenty four votes
Albert Currier of Newburyport, four hundred and twenty six votes
John D. Cross of Ipswich, three hundred and twenty seven votes
Caleb D. Hunking of Haverhill, three hundred and twenty nine votes
N. J. Ward of Salem, forty four votes
Bailey Loring of Andover, one hundred and thirty four votes
Eben H. Stacy of Gloucester, forty four votes
Wm. Hammond of Marblehead, forty four votes
Edmund Pike of Newburyport, forty four votes
Abram D. Wait of Ipswich, two votes
Eben Sutton of Danvers, one vote, John Wallis, one vote, John Arbuckle, one vote, John Tuck, one
vote, John Ray, one vote, John Herrick, one vote, George Chapman, one vote, Peter Funks, one vote,
Job Lass, one vote.
Wm. H. Lovett
Alpheus DavisSelectmen
Haskett D. WhitneyHall of
Andrew B. BakerBeverly
Joseph E. Ober
Attest, John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Town of Beverly, county of Essex. At a legal meeting of the qualified voters of town of Beverly
holden on the second Monday of November A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three,
pursuant to a Resolution of the Convention of Delegates, assembled at Boston, on the first
Wednesday in May A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, for the purpose of Revising the
Constitution of the Commonwealth.
The votes on the several propositions submitted by the Convention, were given in by the
qualified voters, as follows:-
Proposition Number One.Yeas, three hundred and eighty-seven
Nays, four hundred and twenty-three
Proposition Number Two.Yeas, three hundred and ninety-one
Nays, four hundred and twenty
Proposition Number Three.Yeas, three hundred and eighty-three
Nays, four hundred and twenty-eight
Proposition Number Four.Yeas, three hundred and ninety-five
Nays, four hundred and nineteen
Proposition Number Five.Yeas, four hundred and two
Nays, four hundred and ten
Proposition Number Six.Yeas, four hundred and two
Nays, four hundred and eleven
Proposition Number Seven.Yeas, three hundred and ninety-two
Nays, four hundred and nineteen
Proposition Number Eight.Yeas, three hundred and ninety-three
Nays, four hundred and eighteen
Wm. H. Lovett
Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen
Andrew C. Baker of
Joseph E. Ober Beverly
Alpheus Davis
Attest,John I. Baker, Town Clerk
Commonwealth 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, in the usual
manner, the qualified voters of said town to meet at the Town Hall on Monday the twentieth eighth
day of November instant at nine o’clock before noon, according to the petition of Matthew Bridge
and others, “to elect Representatives to the next General Court in accordance with the vote of the
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town on Monday the 14 instant.”
Hereof fail not but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon before such time.
Given under our hands and seal this twenty first day of November in the year eighteen
hundred and fifty three.
Wm. H. Lovett
Joseph E. OberSelectmen
Haskett D. Whitney of
Alpheus Davis Beverly
Beverly November 21, 1853. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons
therein named as there and directed, by posting notices according to Town Regulations.
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 the twenty eighth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and fifty three at nine
o’clock before noon, agreeably to the warrant recorded on the next proceeding page -
Edward Pousland moved that this meeting be dissolved. This motion being seconded, A. N.
Clark moved that the motion be laid upon the table. The question being put to the meeting upon Mr.
Clark’s motion, the Moderator declared it to be a vote. This was doubted, and the meeting divided
to ascertain the result with certainty. Warren Prince and William D. Crosfield were appointed tellers,
and reported the result to be132 in favor of Mr. Clark’s motion to 88 opposed thereto. The
Moderator again declared it a vote, and that the motion to dissolve the meeting was laid upon the
table.
Mr. Clark then moved to close the polls for choice of Representatives at four o’clock P.M.
This motion was seconded. Then various motions to amend by substituting 5, 6, 8 and 12 o’clock
were voted down, and the original motion to close at 4 P.M. was adopted, and the Chairman of the
Selectmen, who presided, declared the polls open accordingly.
As the voters were proceeding to ballot Henry P. Herrick moved that the town do not send
any Representatives. This motion the chairman stated he apprehended was out or order at this time,
but would put it to the meeting, which by a very decided vote refused to sustain it.
The balloting then proceeded until four o’clock afternoon, when the polls were closed and
the ballots were sorted and counted, and the following result ascertained in open town meeting.
The balloting then proceeded into four o’clock to afternoon, when the polls were closed the
ballots were sorted and counted, and the following result ascertained and declared in open town
meeting.
Whole number of ballots for Representatives to the General Court, nine hundred and twenty
nine.
Necessary to a choice four hundred and sixty five.
Levi A. Abbott, had four hundred and ninety two votes
Amos Lefavour, had four hundred and ninety two votes
Joseph E. Ober, had three hundred and eighty one votes
William Porter, had three hundred and sixty nine votes
John Lovett, had fifty three votes
John Bradshaw, had fifty three votes
Stephens Baker, George Chapman, Gideon Cole, John Morgan, John Ober, Thomas B. Smith, John
Tuck, Abraham H. Young, each had one vote.
Levi A. Abbott and Amos Lefavour having more than the number requisite to a choice were declared
elected and the meeting was dissolved.
Attest, John I. Baker, Town Clerk.