Morning pleasant. Rode to town as usual. Prepared at my Office a Petition to compound with a debtor of New’s Estate, and presented it to the Judge who made the decree. I then went to Faneuil Hall to vote against the projected Railway measure. The mass seemed to be going the other way, but I went nevertheless and performed my duty as conscientiously as becomes a good citizen.1

Some time passed reading Hutchinson and I had a visit from an old man, name unknown, who requested to know something about a right to land to make a road through Weston Farm. It seems that it is likely to be much benefitted by it and will yet involve considerable expense. Now the object of my father is to be run in debt by it as little as possible, for as to profit the idea is absurd. I gave him little or no decided encouragement, and he promised to call again before County Court. Dr. Davis called to inquire for Mr. Everett. Returned to Medford and in the afternoon and evening read Parr, which became much more amusing.