84 KEPOKT OF THE COMMITTEE 



Society-Junto. After these years, the Committee 

 find no reference to "the Junto," until June 24th 

 1785, under which date Koberts wrote to Franklin 

 as follows: "Philip Syng, the only other surviving 

 member here, of the old Junto, labours under in- 

 firmities, keeps much at home, where I can seldom 

 go to visit him." Hazard's Register, XV, 184. 



If the Franklin and Society-Juntos were the same, 

 would Eoberts speak of Philip Syng as the only 

 other surviving member of the Junto in Philadelphia 

 besides himself! Would he not rather have said, 

 that besides himself, the surviving members of the 

 Junto were Charles Thomson, Edmund Physick, 

 Moses Bartram, Joseph Paschall, Owen Biddle, 

 James Pearson, Samuel Powel, Nicholas Wain, Cle- 

 ment Biddle, Dr. John Morgan, not to mention others, 

 who were members of the Society- Junto, still living, 

 when Eoberts wrote. Neither can it be contended 

 that Roberts meant to say that Syng was the only 

 other surviving original member; for neither Syng 

 nor Eoberts were original members of the Franklin- 

 Junto. See Franklin's list, 1, Sparks, 81. While it 

 is thus proved that the expression of Eoberts, in this 

 letter, is inconsistent with the supposition that the 

 two Juntos were the same, it is perfectly accurate as 

 applied to the Franklin- Junto, which evidently con- 

 tinued to meet a long time after it ceased to fill up 

 vacancies by new elections, and, at last, became ex- 

 tinct by the death of the last survivor, Franklin. 



