1847-04-28 ElectionCommonwealth of Massachusetts
The Board of Examiners for the County of Essex, to the Selectmen of the town of Beverly
in said County, Greeting.
On examining the returns of votes from the several towns in said County, given on the fifth
day of April instant, agreeably to the laws of said Commonwealth, it appears that no three persons
have a majority of all the votes legally returned for County Commissioners; and that only two persons
have such majority, viz.: Benjamin F. Newhall of Saugus, and Asa W. Wildes of Newburyport; and
that no two persons have a majority of all the votes legally returned for special commissioners; and
that only one person has such majority, viz: Alfred Kittredge of Haverhill:
You are therefore required to call a legal meeting of the inhabitants of said town, qualified as
the law directs, to be holden on Monday to seventeenth day of May next, to given in their votes for
one person as County Commissioner; and for one person as Special Commissioner; the following
being a complete list of all persons voted for as county or special commissioners, who received more
than twenty-five votes each, exclusive of such as were elected, viz.:
For County CommissionersFor Special Commissioners
John I. Baker of Beverly1883Dan Weed, Jr., of Methuen1216
Charles Kimball of Ipswich1790Dan Weed, Jr., of Ipswich559
Joseph How of Methuen1041John Safford of Beverly1615
John Tenney of Methuen283Royal A. Merriam of Topsfield580
Allen W. Dodge of Hamilton230Nathan W. Hazen of Andover334
Nathaniel Ladd of Bradford168George Hood of Lynn186
Nathaniel J. Lord of Salem160Dan Weed of Methuen38
George Hood of Lynn45
Asa T. Newhall of Lynnfield42
William Johnson, Jr., of Andover38
Thomas D. Payson, of Rowley29
Given under our hands and seal, at Salem, this twenty-eighth day of April in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
D. A. White
Nathl. Lord Jr.Examiners for said County.
P. Shillaber
N. B. The vote of the city of Salem, was rejected not being signed by the City Clerk, otherwise John
I. Baker would have been elected, he having their received 306 of the 378 votes following - Dan
Weed Jr. would not have been elected quite with that vote -