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friends. No longer so sollicitous about mutual im- 

 provement, but meeting chiefly for such social & intel- 

 lectual enjoyment as suited a small number of old 

 friends. Considering their education at an end, they 

 had hereafter no appointed discussion, nor prepared 

 essays, but indulged in more congenial chat, and did 

 not dispute the chess or supper table as part of the 

 Evening's Pastime. This is the tradition of the 

 Eoberts Family. 



Now, if you suppose that ceasing to be a debating 

 Society it had sunk into a Social Club, like the Gov- 

 ernor's Club and several others in the Province, we 

 can account for another Society consisting of differ- 

 ent and younger men taking the name of the Junto, 

 and even with the knowledge and approbation of D r 

 Franklin, who would perhaps willingly consent to the 

 transfer of the old name to a new Association with 

 the original objects " Mutual Improvement" & c 



This also accounts for his always writing about our 

 "old friends of the Junto " "the Ancient Junto" & c , 

 Now the members of the American Society, Thomson, 

 Physick, S. Powel & c were not old and the Junta 

 could be more properly called "THE Ancient" when 

 contrasted with a new Society of the same name,, 

 than of it's own right, if there existed no other of 

 more recent creation. Thus, too, in one sense the old 

 Junto could be caMed the origin of the American 

 Society, as it was the model imitated by the young^ 

 friends of D r Franklin who may have suggested to- 



