Continental Congress

At the continental congresses he is depicted as the lead advocate for independence.

The Continental Congresses had been closed.

Hancock attended the Continental Congresses and served as President of the Congress.

Massachusetts sent Adams to the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and from 1775 to 1777.

The Office of the Doorkeeper was based on precedent from the Continental Congresses.

A leader in the movement for independence, he was a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses.

All major Protestant churches were represented in the First and Second Continental Congresses.

During the American Revolution, it was the site of the First and Second Continental Congresses.

It was also the first time the colonies cooperated for a unified political aim, and laid the foundation for the Continental Congresses that followed years later.

As expected of men of his station, he ran for the House of Burgesses and was sent to the two Continental Congresses.

A prominent member of the Continental Congresses, Adams was among those named to draft the Declaration of Independence, which he later signed.

Cushing represented Massachusetts in the First and Second Continental Congresses, but was voted out when he opposed independence.

He went to both Continental Congresses, and following the first, he returned to Virginia to make the March 20, 1755, speech for which he is most famous.

The debate about where to place a permanent seat of government had been a source of controversy since the Continental Congresses and continued throughout the First Congress (1789-1791).

Her husband, James, was active in Massachusetts politics and friends with John Adams and the other Massachusetts delegates to the Continental Congresses.

A delegate to the Stamp Act Congress and a strong supporter of the Revolution, he participated in the First and Second Continental Congresses.

Tilghman's youngest brother was Matthew Tilghman, a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses.

High summer is also the time to set sandals to the streets around Independence Hall and see where the delegates to the First and Second Continental Congresses sweltered.

It opened for worship on September 4, 1761 and served as a place of worship for many of the United States Founding Fathers during the period of the Continental Congresses.

The Stamp Act Congress was a predecessor to the later Continental Congresses, notably the Second Continental Congress which oversaw the establishment of American independence.

Adams's life is one of the most documented of the first ladies: she is remembered for the many letters she wrote to her husband while he stayed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental Congresses.

Under British occupation clergy were required to be Loyalists, while the parishioners included some members of the revolutionary New York Provincial Congress, as well as the First and Second Continental Congresses.

Over the bridge crossed anyone who traveled to Philadelphia by horseback or coach from the northern colonies, including delegates to the First or Second Continental Congresses, such as John Adams, from Massachusetts.

Having established a reputation as a reasonable moderate in New York, Jay was elected to serve as delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses which debated whether the colonies should declare independence.

That would change markedly when John went off to ride the circuit on court cases, and then to the Continental Congresses, and as she began her correspondence with Mercy Otis Warren, a woman known to espouse political views.