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APPENDIX C. 



Junto you tell me are departed this life, Potts and 

 Parsons. " ... "I do not quite like your absenting 

 yourself from the good old Club, the Junto. " Frank- 

 lin to Hugh Roberts. 7 Sparks, 181. 



September 22. Date of the first Society-Junto 

 Minutes extant. 



1759. I. Paschall proposes "How may the posses- 

 sion of the Lakes be best improved to the advantage 

 of the English! " See Minutes under this date. 



1760. Philip Syng, Jun. was buried in Christ 

 Church burial ground, Nov. 14, 1760. Certif. of EoU. 

 R. Bringhurst, Clerk. 



1761. February 26. "You tell me you sometimes 

 visit the ancient Junto. I wish you would do it 

 oftener. I know they all love and respect you, and 

 regret your absenting yourself so much. People 

 are apt to grow strange and not understand one 

 another so well, when they meet but seldom. Since 

 we have held that Club till we are grown grey to- 

 gether, let us hold it out to the End. For my own 

 Part, I find I love Company, Chat, a glass, and even 

 a song, as well as ever; and at the same Time relish 

 better than I us'd to do, the grave observations and 

 wise sentences of old men's Conversation; So that I 

 am sure the Junto will be still as agreeable to me 

 as it ever has been: I therefore hope it will not be . 

 discontinued as long as we are able to crawl together." 

 Franklin to H. Roberts. 7 Sparks, 223. [Original 

 in the possession of Charles Morton Smith, Esq.] 



