1853-03-07 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 seventh day of March
next at nine o’clock before noon to give in their votes for delegates to meet delegates from other
cities and towns within this Commonwealth in Convention, according to the Act relating to calling
a Convention etc. Approved May 7,1852.
The poll will open at Nine o’clock A.M. 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 on our hands and seal this twenty fifth day of February, in the year eighteen hundred
and fifty three.
Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen
Joseph E. Ober of
Alpheus Davis Beverly
Beverly February 26,1853. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons
therein named as therein directed -
Benj. C. Sumner, Constable of Beverly.
A true record of the original warrant and the return thereon.
Attest.John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
The above meeting was duly convened and voted to close the poll at four o’clock afternoon,
at which time the votes were duly sorted, counted and recorded and declaration thereof made as
follows: viz. - whole number of ballots five hundred and sixty seven - necessary to a choice two
hundred and eighty four. Robert Rantoul had three hundred and sixty - Joseph E. Ober had three
hundred and fifty five, and they were elected and certificate was made accordingly according to the
copy thereof on the next page. The other votes were for Frederick W. Choate, and Levi A. Abbott,
two hundred and two votes each - Dean Chapman two votes - and George D. Chapman, Charles G.
Loring, Joseph Tracy, William Porter, Calvin Tuck, John L. Goldsbury and Gideon Cole one vote
each -
Attest.John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Essex
Pursuant to a law of this Commonwealth, the qualified voters of the town of
Beverly, in town meeting, on the seventh day of March instant, for the choice of delegates to the
Convention for revising the Constitution of this Commonwealth did elect Robert Rantoul and Joseph
E. Ober to represent them in said Convention, to be holden at the State House in Boston on the first
Wednesday of May next.
Dated at Beverly the seventh day of March in the year one thousand eight
hundred and fifty three.
Wm. H. Lovett
Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen
Andrew C. Baker of
Alpheus Davis Beverly
Joseph E. Ober
Attest.
John I. Baker, Town Clerk.