34 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE 



other s motions; it was not until the year 1768 that 

 the contest truly began and assumed a formidable 

 aspect. 



On the first day of January in that year, the newly 

 formed, or rather newly named &quot;American Society,&quot; 

 consisted of thirteen members, who are named in the 

 heading of that day s minutes, as follows: 



Present Absent. 



Charles Thomson Edmund Physick 



Owen Biddle William Biddle 



Clement Biddle John Lukens 



James Pearson Samuel Eldridge 



Dr. John Morgan Nicholas Wain 



Joseph Paschall Isaac Paschall 

 Benjamin Davis 



&quot;This evening&quot; (say the minutes) the subject of 

 enlarging the Society was again resumed, and 

 Charles Thomson informed the Company** that he 

 had (as far as he was able) collected the sense of 

 the Company on the subject under consideration, 

 and committed his thoughts to writing as they had 

 occurred to himself, and on considering the matter, 

 he was desired to read them.&quot; 



Mr. Thomson then produced and read a paper en 

 titled: &quot;Proposals for enlarging this Society, in 

 order that it may the better answer the end for 



24 The Junto always called themselves the Company, the members 

 now sometimes forgot that they had become a Society. 



