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Innkeeper around whose fire side they assembled; 

 which, if a tradition I have heard be correct, was at 

 the Old Indian King in Market Street below Third. 



The first members according to D r Franklin were 

 Joseph Breintnall, Thomas Godfrey, Nicholas Scull, 

 William Parsons, William Mangridge, Hugh Mere- 

 dith, Stephen Potts, George Webb, Eobert Grace, and 

 William Coleman ten besides Benjamin Franklin, 

 at later periods others were elected to supply the 

 place of those dead or retired and, if we may rely on 

 a list found I believe by Eobert s Vaux among the 

 papers of his Grandfather, these were the following 

 Hugh Eoberts, Philip Syng, Enoch Flower, Joseph 

 Wharton, William Griffitts, Luke Morris, Joseph 

 Turner, Joseph Shippen, Joseph Trotter, Samuel 

 Jarvis, and Samuel Ehoads making eleven more. The 

 Club was kept up till most of these were dead, having 

 lasted according to D r Franklin nearly forty years. 1 



About ten years after its institution (1736) an 

 attempt was made to enlarge the Club Franklin was 

 opposed to it, but suggested that each of the twelve 

 members should form a subordinate Club of similar 

 character to report to the Junto. This plan after 



partial success seems to have fallen through, but the 







Old Club survived. 

 In a Letter to Hugh Eoberts from Boston dated 



1 Vide Autobiography page 82. Sparks Ed. : If it did not last quite 

 40 years it could not be the Society for Promoting useful Knowledge 

 which was united to the American Philosophical Society forty-two 

 years after the foundation of the Junto. 



