1777-05-19th
At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of Town of Beverly on May 19 1777.
The Selectmen set as regulators of said Meeting as the Law Directs.
It was put to vote to see if the Town would choose more than one representative to the Great
and General Court and it passed in the negative.
Then Capt. Josiah Batchelder Jr. was elected and deputed to serve for and represent them in the
Session and Sessions of the Great and General Court or Assembly appointed to be convened, held
and kept for the government service at the State House in Boston upon Wednesday the twenty-eighth
day of May instant, the said person being chosen by the major part of the Electors present at said
Meeting.
Capt. Josiah Batchelder Jr. was chosen Moderator for the remaining business of said Meeting.
It was put to vote to see if the Town will instruct their representative to join in one body with the
Council to form such a Constitution of Government as they shall judge best calculated to
promote the happiness of this State & agreeable to a resolve of the Great and General Court
of the 5th of May instant and it passed in the negative.
Voted That the sum of five hundred pounds be assessed and raised on the ratable polls and estates
within said Town the ensuing year for the defraying of the necessary charges ensuing within
the same.
Voted that the prayer of the petition of Asa Brown and others be granted.
It was put to vote to see if the Town will grant the request of William Bartlett and others and it
passed in the negative.