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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 th 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 th 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.