[Massachusetts]: [Elections]:

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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS THE SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF Sherburne IN THE FIRST DISTRICT, VIZ SUFFOLK, ESSEX AND MIDDLESEX. GREETING. THESE ARE IN THE NAME OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO ... An apparently unrecorded pair of election documents recording early ballot vote tallies and a subsequent call for another ballot for the two remaining candidates for the at-large seat in the First District of Massachusetts for the Third United States Congressional seat in 1792. The elections for the Third Congress in 1792 were important in the political development of the United States, as they further cemented the fledgling two-party system in the country. President George Washington, who won unanimous reelection in 1792, remained unaffiliated with any political party while in office, but his allies were largely members of the Federalist Party. The opposition to Washington's policies generally centered on the Democratic-Republican Party.The text in the upper part of the sheet instructs qualified voters to cast a further ballot in the 1792 Congressional election, while the bottom document lists the two remaining candidates for the at-large seat in the first district, Samuel Holten and Benjamin Austin. The later imprint is at the top of the present sheet, while the earlier vote tally is printed at the bottom. The later imprint, dated February 15, 1793, calls for "the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Sherburne duly qualified to vote for Representatives" to assemb

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