1780-09-04 ElectionAt a meeting of the Male Inhabitants of the Town of Beverly twenty-one years of age and upwards
that are qualified agreeable to the New Constitution or form of government for the State to vote in
the choice of Governor, Lieutenant Governor and persons to serve as Councillors and Senators
legally warned and assembled on Monday the fourth day of September 1780.
The Selectmen presided at said meeting and the votes received for a Governor, Lieut. Governor and
persons for Councillors and Senators are as followeth viz.
The votes received for Governor
for the Hon. James Bowdoin Esq.29
for the Hon. John Hancock Esq.14
Votes received for Lieut. Governor
for the Hon. John Hancock Esq.29
for the Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf Esq.28
for the Hon. James Bowdoin Esq.28
Votes received for Councillors & Senators
for Hon. Azor Orne Esq.18
for Hon. Samuel Holten Esq.17
for Hon. John Pickering Esq.17
for Jonathan Jackson Esq.11
for Hon. Richard Derby Esq.11
for Hon. Elbridge Gerry13
for Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf Esq.1
for Hon. Aaron Wood Esq. 29
for Hon. Stephen Choate Esq.16
Nathan Goodale2
And a list of the above said persons voted for was made out and signed by the Selectmen etc.
and sent to the Secretary’s Office as the law directs.