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pen, Joseph Trotter, Samuel Jervis, Samuel Rhoads, 

 Joseph Brientnall. " Hazard's Register, XV, 183. 



1728. " Eules for a Club established for mutual 

 Improvement." These rules were drawn up in 1728. 

 1 ' Our debates were to be under the direction of a pres- 

 ident,' 7 etc. 2 Sparks 9. Twenty-four queries to be 

 read over by each member on the morning of each 

 meeting. Ibid. 



1729. Discussion in Junto about paper money. 

 1 Sparks, 90. 



1730. About Sep. 1. Junto met, not at a tavern, 

 but at a little room of Mr. Grace's, and they clubbed 

 their books. By help of friends of the Junto, got 

 fifty subscribers to a subscription library. 1 Sparks 

 96, 97. 



1731. Left the ale house where they first met, and 

 hired a room to hold their Club in. 1 Sparks, 99. 



1732. June 30. " That all new members be qual- 

 ified by the four qualifications, and all the old ones 

 take." 2 Sparks 551 et seq. 



1733. "I ever forbid myself, agreeably to the old 

 laws of our Junto, the use of every word and ex- 

 pression in the language that imparted a fixed opin- 

 ion." 1 Sparks, 116. 



1735. Published pieces in his newspaper which he 

 had read before the Junto. (Socratic Dialogue Vic- 

 ious man not a man of sense). 1 Sparks, 123. 



1736. Junto useful, and some members wished to 

 introduce their friends, and increase the number of 



