1848-11-07 ElectionEssex, ss Beverly. To one of the Constables of said Town - Greeting -
You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify and
warn the qualified voters of said Town to meet at the Town Hall on Tuesday the seventh day of
November next at nine o’clock, before noon, (by posting notices agreeably to the Town Regulations)-
To give in their ballots for Electors of President
and Vice President of the United States for the next presidential term, viz.: for two Electors at Large,
and one for each Congressional District -
The poll will open at nine o’clock A.M. and
close at four o’clock P.M.
Hereof fail not but make due return of this
warrant with your doings thereon before said time-
Given under our hands and seal his twenty
seventh day of October in the year Eighteen hundred forty-eight -
Wm. H. Lovett
Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen
John I. Baker of
Josiah Obear Beverly
Beverly October 28, A.D.1848. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons
therein named as therein directed -
C. Horace Stocker - Constable of Beverly -
A true record of the original warrant and return thereon -
Attest,
John I. Baker, Town Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Beverly, in the County of Essex, qualified
according to the Constitution to vote for Representatives in the General Court, holden on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November in the year one thousand eight
hundred and forty-eight, being the seventh day of said month, for the purpose of giving in their votes
for Electors of President of United States, the whole number of persons who gave in their votes was
ascertained as directed in the Revised Statutes, (Chap.4, Sec.13,) by counting the whole number of
ballots given in; and the whole number of ballots was eight hundred and ninety-two -
And the whole number of votes given in were received, sorted, counted and declared, and
record thereof made in open town meeting, as by the law directed; and said votes were as follows:
viz..
For Electors at Large
Levi Lincoln of Worcester, four hundred and thirty votes
Edmund Dwight of Boston, four hundred and thirty votes
Charles G. Greene Boston, two hundred and her twelve votes
H. H. Childs of Pittsfield, two hundred votes
Samuel Hoar of Concord, two hundred fifty votes
William Jackson of Newton, two hundred fifty votes
For an Elector for District Number One
Albert Fearing of Boston, four hundred and thirty votes
James Cheever of Boston, two hundred and twelve votes
Joseph Willard of Boston, two hundred and fifty votes
For an Elector for District Number Two
David Pingree of Salem, four hundred and twenty-nine votes
Eben H. Stacey of Gloucester, two hundred and twelve votes
John B. Alley of Lynn, two hundred and the fifty votes
Charles Curtis, one vote
For an Elector for District Number Three
Daniel Adams of Newbury, four hundred and thirty votes
E. Lawrence of Newburyport, two hundred votes
John G. Whittier of Amesbury, two hundred and fifty votes
For an Elector for District Number For.
Isaac Livermore of Cambridge, four hundred thirty votes
Timo. Fletcher of Charlestown, two hundred twelve votes
Nathan Brooks of Concord, two hundred fifty votes
For an Elector for District Number Five.
Benjamin F. Thomas of Worcester, four hundred and thirty votes
J. S. C. Knowlton of Worcester, two hundred and twelve votes
Alexander DeWitt of Worcester, two hundred and fifty votes
For an Elector for District Number Six.
Myron Lawrence of Belchertown, four hundred and thirty votes
Joseph Smith of Hatfield, two hundred and twelve votes
James Fowler of Westfield, two hundred and fifty votes
For an Elector for District Number Seven.
Asa Howland of Conway, four hundred and thirty votes
Saml. Gates of West Stockbridge, two hundred and twelve votes
Thomas Robinson of Adams, two hundred and fifty votes
For an Elector for District Number Eight.
Henry A. S. Dearborn of Roxbury, four hundred and thirty votes
Wm. Ellis of Dedham, two hundred and twelve votes
Benjamin V. French of Braintree, two hundred and fifty votes
For an Elector for District Number Nine.
William Baylies of West Bridgewater, four hundred and thirty votes
Foster Hooper of Fall River, two hundred and twelve votes
file old Leach of Bridgewater, two hundred and fifty votes
For an Elector for District Number Ten
William R. Easton of Nantucket, four hundred and thirty votes
Jas. D. Foster of New Bedford, two hundred and twelve votes
Isaac C. Taber of New Bedford, two hundred and fifty votes
Wm. H. Lovett
Edward T. ProctorSelectmen
Haskett D. Whitney of
Josiah Obear Beverly
John I. Baker
Attest. John I. Baker, Town Clerk.