APPENDIX C. 

 CHKONOLOGICAL STATEMENT. 



1727. Autumn. Formed the Junto. Met on Friday 

 evenings. Every member in turn to produce one or 

 more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Nat- 

 ural Philosophy, to be discussed, and once in three 

 months on any subject he pleased. Our debates were 

 to be under the direction of a president, and to be 

 conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, 

 without fondness for dispute or desire of victory. 



The first members besides Franklin, were Joseph 

 Breintnal, Thomas Godfrey, ("He soon left us") 

 Nicholas Scull, William Parsons, William Mangridge, 

 Hugh Meredith, Stephen Potts, George Webb, Eobert 

 Grace, and William Coleman. My friendship for 

 William Coleman "continued without interruption 

 to his death, upwards of forty years; and the club 

 continued almost as long, and was the best school of 

 philosophy, morality, and politics that then existed in 

 the province. " Franklin's Autobiography. 1 Sparks, 

 81 et seq. Written by Franklin in 1771. 1 Sparks 1. 

 Note. 



List of members given by Eoberts Vaux, derived 

 from the papers of his grandfather, Hugh Eoberts : 

 "B. Franklin, Hugh Eoberts, William Coleman, 

 Philip Syng, Enoch Flower, Joseph Wharton, William 

 Griffiths, Luke Morris, Joseph Turner, Joseph Ship- 



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