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1849-11-12 ElectionEssex, ss. To one of the Constables of the town of Beverly, Greeting.- You are hereby required in the name of Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify and warn, in the usual manner, the qualified voters of said town to meet at the Town Hall on Monday the twelfth day of November current, at nine o’clock before noon, for the following purposes, viz.: - To decide whether the town will send one or more Representatives to the next General Court, and if they so decide, to give in their ballots for the same. Also, To give in their ballots for a Governor and Lieutenant Governor of this Commonwealth, and for Senators for this District of Essex, for the ensuing political year. - The ballots will be received on one piece of paper, and the poll will open immediately after deciding upon sending representatives, and close at four 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 first day of November in the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine. Wm. H. Lovett John I. BakerSelectmen Haskett D. Whitney of Josiah Obear Beverly Beverly Nov. 8, A.D. 1849. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons therein named as therein directed, - Charles H. Stocker, - Constable. A true record of the original warrant and return thereon, Attest. John I. Baker, Town Clerk. Pursuant to the warrant upon the page next preceding, the qualified voters of the town of Beverly, met at the Town Hall on Monday the twelfth day of November in the year eighteen hundred forty-nine, at nine o’clock before noon, and Voted, To send two representatives to the next General Court, and close the poll at four o’clock afternoon. - The electors then proceeded to give in their ballots for the several purposes named in said warrant, the results of which in reference to Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Senators are recorded upon the pages following; and the whole number of ballots for Representatives to General Court was eight hundred and nine: necessary to a choice four hundred and five; and the said ballots were for the following persons, viz.: - William H. Lovett, four hundred and thirty-one votes Paul Hildreth, four hundred and seventeen votes Joseph E. Ober, three hundred and seventy-eight votes Robert Rantoul Jr., three hundred and sixty-seven votes Israel Trask, two votes, and the following had one vote each, Haskett D. Whitney - John Wilson - Samuel Woodbury - John Porter 2d - Thomas B. Smith - William K. Bailey - Charles W. Lord - Samuel S. Ober - James Hill - Edward Pousland. And Messrs. William H. Lovett and Paul Hildreth having each more than the requisite number for a choice, are elected, and were so declared in open town meeting. Wm. H. Lovett Edward T. ProctorSelectmen Haskett D. Whitney of Josiah Obear Beverly John I. Baker Attest. John I. Baker, Town Clerk. 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 twelfth day of November, being the second Monday of said month, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, for the purpose of giving in their [votes] for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of said Commonwealth, the whole number persons who gave in their votes was ascertained, as is directed in the Revised Statutes, (Chap. 4, Sec. 13,) by counting the whole number of separate ballots given in; and the whole number of ballots was, for Governor eight hundred and nine - And the whole number of 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.: - George N. Briggs, four hundred and thirty-three votes For Governor George S. Boutwell Graf Groton, two hundred and thirty-four votes Stephen C. Phillips Salem, one hundred and forty-two votes And the whole number of ballots was, for Lieutenant Governor - eight hundred and nine - And the whole number of 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 John Reed, four hundred and thirty votes Henry W. Cushman of Bernardston, two hundred and thirty-four votes John Mills of Springfield, one hundred and forty-five votes Wm. H. LovettSelectmen Edward T. Proctor of Haskett D. Whitney Beverly Josiah Obear John I. Baker Attest John I. Baker, Town Clerk 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 twelfth day of November, being the second Monday of said month, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, 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 ten. And the whole number of 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.: - Nathan W. Hazen, Andover, four hundred and forty-three votes Daniel C. Baker, Lynn, four hundred a twenty-two votes Charles W. Upham, Salem, four hundred and twenty-three votes Albert Thorndike, Beverly, four hundred and twenty-four votes Moses Newell, W. Newbury, four hundred and twenty-five votes Robert Rantoul Jr., of Beverly, three hundred and sixty-five votes John G. Whittier, of Amesbury, three hundred and seventy-nine votes John B. Alley, of Lynn, three hundred and seventy-eight votes Edmund Kimball, Bradford, three hundred and seventy-nine votes Daniel Saunders Jr., Lawrence, three hundred and seventy-seven votes Caleb Cushing of Newburyport, one vote Benjamin F. Brown of Salem, one vote Edward Pousland of Beverly, one vote William D. Crosfield Beverly, one vote Israel Trask of Beverly, one vote Wm. H. LovettSelectmen Edward T. Proctor of Haskett D. Whitney Beverly Josiah Obear John I. Baker Attest. John I. Baker, Town Clerk.