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part in the Junto proceedings.&quot; p. 19. It is hardly 

 necessary to add, that the Committee, having given 

 a decided opinion that Franklin was not a member 

 of the Society-Junto until February 1768, are fully 

 convinced that he never took any part, active or 

 otherwise, in its proceedings. 



Having considered the question, why Franklin, if 

 a member of the Society- Junto became the founder 

 of the Franklin-Junto, was never recognized as such 

 in the former until a late period, and then by election, 

 and answered the explanations given of the silence 

 of the Society-Junto minutes in relation to the point; 

 the question recurs, why were not William Coleman, 

 Hugh Roberts, Philip Syng, Sen., and Samuel Rhoads, 

 the other surviving members of the Franklin- Junto 

 during the existence of the Society-Junto, recognized 

 as members of the latter? 



Mr. Du Ponceau, in his paper, recognizes Coleman 

 and Franklin as the only survivors of the Franklin- 

 Junto, at the time of the union which formed the 

 present Society, p. 11. Mr. Fisher mentions a third, 

 Hugh Roberts, and very naturally inquires, why is 

 lie not mentioned, as either present or absent, on the 

 minutes of the Society- Junto, especially as Franklin, 

 in a letter to him, dated February 26th, 1761, says, 

 &quot;You tell me you sometimes visit the ancient Junto.&quot; 

 The letter of Roberts, to which Franklin s is an 

 answer, was probably written in the latter part of 

 1760, and for that year we possess the minutes of 



