1st+Continental+Congress

The 1st Continental Congress started on September 5 1774 and ended October 26 1774. It was a meeting that was in Philidephia. With the representives of the colonies ( chosen by the colonist.) It was a meeting with all the thirteen Colonies(expect Georgia). Britains. The meeting was about the colonies rights. Pennslyvania and New York were sent to find out the plan with England. The representatives said that they would meet again in May of 1775 if British did not change their taxes. The King punished and tried to weaken the colonies. He made so they couldn't get to the North Atlantic and the fish areas. The Continental Congress signed for the Declaration of Indenpendence. They also signed for the U.S army.

All Representative for the colonies This is a picture of the Carpenters' Hall Another picture of all the Representative from the Colonies

The Representives of the Colonies are....


 * New Hampshire: || John Sullivan, Nathaniel Folsam ||
 * Massachusetts Bay: || John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Cushing, Robert Treat Paine ||
 * Rhode Island: || Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Ward ||
 * Connecticut: || Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, Silas Deane ||
 * New York: || Isaac Low, John Alsop, John Jay, James Duane, William Floyd, Henry Wisener, S. Bocrum ||
 * New Jersey: || James Kinsey, William Livingston, Stephen Crane, Richard Smith ||
 * Pennsylvania: || Joseph Gallaway, John Dickinson, Charles Humphreys, Thomas Miffin, Edward Biddle, John Morton, George Ross ||
 * Delaware: || Caesar Rodney, Thomas Keane, George Readv ||
 * Maryland: || Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Samuel Chase ||
 * Virginia: || Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton ||
 * North Carolina: || William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, R. Caswell ||
 * South Carolina: || Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Christopher Gadsden, John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge ||