1767 April 8 (Wednesday). Town Meeting to reconsider the Vote about the place of the Work-House, and to Vote to have it stand near the Stables, before my House. Upon discerning men there viewing the Ground I went out and Spoke to them and at the Motion of several I went in to the Meeting House and remonstrated against it, and prayed them to set it otherwhere. They reconsidered their Vote and placed it where it was voted at first.