1847-04-05 ElectionWarrant for Co. Comrs. Election
Essex, ss. To one of the Constables of the town of Beverly
Greeting -
You are hereby
required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify and warn the qualified voters
of said town, (in the usual manner) to assemble at the Town Hall on Monday the fifth day of April
next at one o’clock afternoon, to give in their ballots for
Three County Commissioners
And
Two Special Commissioners, within and for our said County of Essex -
The poll will close at five o’clock, Afternoon -
Hereof fail not, but make due return of this warrant with your
doings thereon before said time -
Given under our hands and seal this twenty sixth day of March, in the year
1847 -
Wm. H. Lovett
Edward T. ProctorSelectmen
Haskett D. Whitney of
Josiah Obear Beverly
John I. Baker
Beverly April the 3d A.D. 1847 - Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have
notified the persons therein named as therein directed -
David L. Smith, Constable of Beverly.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
At a meeting of the
inhabitants of the town of Beverly, in the County of Essex, held [in pursuance of the foregoing
warrant, and] agreeably to law, for the choice of three County Commissioners and two Special
Commissioners for said County, on the first Monday of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-seven, the qualified voters of said town brought in their written votes upon
one ballot for three County Commissioners and two Special Commissioners being all inhabitants of
different towns in said County, and the Selectmen of said town in open town meeting sorted and
counted the votes and the ballots and made public declaration thereof, and the Town Clerk of said
Town entered in the Town records the whole number of ballots, the names of all persons voted for,
and the number of votes for each, (and the following is a copy of such record, duly signed, attested
and sealed up in open town meeting -)
The whole number of ballots for County Commissioners was five hundred and
fifty-eight.
For Asa W. Wildes of Newbury, two hundred and thirty-seven votes
Benjamin F. Newhall of Saugus, two hundred and fifty-two votes
John I. Baker Beverly, two hundred and fifty-four votes
Charles Kimball of Ipswich, ten votes
Joseph Howe Methuen, two votes
Lemuel Gott of Rockport, two votes
William Carey of Amesbury, one vote
Jesse Putnam of Danvers, one vote
John A. Innis of Salem, one vote
The whole number of ballots for Special Commissioners was two hundred and
fifty-eight.
For Dan Weed Jr. of Methuen, two hundred and forty-eight votes
Alfred Kittredge of Haverhill, two hundred and fifty-two votes
John Safford of Beverly, three votes
Royal A. Merriam of Topsfield, two votes
Wm. H. Lovett of Beverly, one vote.
The poll closed at five o’clock afternoon, and the meeting duly dissolved after
the sorting, counting, recording and returning of the same under seal as before said-
Attest, John I. Baker, Town Clerk.