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The Continental Congress refers to both the First and Second Congresses of 1774–1781 and at the time, also described the Congress of the Confederation of 1781–1789. The Confederation Congress operated as the first federal government until being replaced following ratification of the U.S. Constitution .
1st Continental Congress 2nd Continental Congress Confederation Congress Gunning Bedford Jr. 1783–1785 John Dickinson [a] 1779: Philemon Dickinson: 1782–1783 Dyre Kearney: 1787–1788 Eleazer McComb: 1783–1784 Thomas McKean: 1774: 1775–1776; 1778–1781: 1781–1782 Nathaniel Mitchell: 1787–1788 John Patten: 1786 William Peery: 1786 ...
3 Accomplishments. 4 List of delegates. 5 Gallery. 6 ... The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates of 12 of the Thirteen Colonies held from September ...
The York County community has long remembered the achievements of Continental Congress in York. In the county’s 250th anniversary in 1999, the American Revolution was the centerpiece of this ...
The Continental Congress: A Definitive History of the Continental Congress From Its Inception in 1774 to March 1789. Chadwick, Bruce (2005). George Washington's War. Sourcebooks. ISBN 9781402226106. Dougherty, Keith L. (2009). "An Empirical Test of Federalist and Anti-Federalist Theories of State Contributions, 1775–1783". Social Science History.
The Second Continental Congress (1775–1781) was the meetings of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War, which established American independence from the British Empire.
Josiah Bartlett (December 2, 1729 [O.S. November 21, 1729] [a] – May 19, 1795) was an American Founding Father, [1] physician, statesman, a delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, and a signatory to the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation.
When Philip Livingston was preparing to leave his family in New York state to join the Continental Congress in 1778, he had a bad feeling about the long trip to York in south-central Pennsylvania ...