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Continental Congresses

Table of Contents

Preface




Introduction




A




Andrew Adams




John Adams




Samuel Adams




Thomas Adams




Robert Alexander




Andrew Allen




John Alsop




Benjamin Andrew




Annapolis State House




John Armstrong, Sr.




John Armstrong, Jr.




Jonathan Arnold




Peleg Arnold




The Articles of Confederation




John Baptista Ashe




Samuel John Atlee




Crispus Attucks




B




Reverend Isaac Backus




Abraham Baldwin




John Banister




The Bank of the United States




Robert Gibbes Barnwell




Dr. Josiah Bartlett




John Bubenheim Bayard




John Beatty




Gunning Bedford




Gunning Bedford, Jr.




Thomas Bee




Egbert Benson




Richard Beresford




Edward Biddle




William Bingham




Jonathan Blanchard




Richard Bland




Theodorick Bland




Timothy Bloodworth




William Blount




Simon Boerum




The Boston Massacre




The Boston Port Bill




Elias Boudinot




James Bowdoin




Carter Braxton




John Brown




Nathan Brownson




John Bull




Archibald Stobo Bulloch




Thomas Burke




Dr. William Burnet




Robert Burton




Pierce Butler




C




Lambert Cadwalader




Canada and Canadian Relations




Capitals of the Continental Congress




William Carmichael




Carpenters’ Hall




Edward Carrington




Charles Carroll “Barrister”




Charles Frémont Carroll III “of Carrollton”




Daniel Carroll




Richard Caswell




Jeremiah Townley Chase




Samuel Chase




Abraham Clark




Matthew Clarkson




Joseph Clay




William Clingan




George Clinton




George Clymer




The Coercive Acts




John Collins




The Committee of Five




The Committee of Fifty




The Committee of Fifty-One




The Committee of Safety/Council of Safety




The Committee of Secret Correspondence




Committees of Correspondence




Committee of Foreign Affairs




The Conciliatory Resolution of 1775




Silas Condict




Benjamin Contee




The Continental Association




Joseph Platt Cooke




John Cooper




Ezekiel Cornell




Tench Coxe




Stephen Crane




William Cumming




Thomas Cushing




D




Francis Dana




Nathan Dane




Second Lord Dartmouth, William Legge




John Dawson




Elias Dayton




Jonathan Dayton




Silas Deane




The Declaration of Independence




John De Hart




Charles DeWitt




Samuel Dick




John Dickinson




The “Dickinson Draft” of the Articles of Confederation




Philemon Dickinson




Diplomacy of, and by, the Continental Congress




William Henry Drayton




James Duane




Reverend Jacob Duché




William Duer




Reverend George Duffield




John Dunlap




Eliphalet Dyer




E




Pierpont Edwards




Samuel Elbert




William Ellery




Oliver Ellsworth




Jonathan Elmer




Espionage Tactics by the Continental Congress




The Essex Principles, also known as The Essex Result




Nicholas Eveleigh




F




The Fairfax County Resolves




John Fell




William Few, Jr.




The Henry Fite House




William Fitzhugh




Thomas Fitzsimons




William Fleming




William Floyd




Nathaniel Folsom




James Forbes




The Department of Foreign Affairs




Uriah Forrest




Abiel Foster




Relations with France




Benjamin Franklin




The “Franklin Draft” of the Articles of Confederation




Fraunces Tavern




Frederick Frelinghuysen




The French Arms Tavern




George Frost




G




Christopher Gadsden




Joseph Galloway




Leonard Gansevoort




John Gardner




Joseph Gardner




David Gelston




George William Frederick, King George III of Great Britain and Ireland




George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville




Elbridge Gerry




John Lewis Gervais




William Gibbons




John Taylor Gilman




Nicholas Gilman




Robert Goldsborough




Mary Katherine Goddard




Nathaniel Gorham




William Grayson




Great Seal of the United States




Cyrus Griffin




Second Earl of Guilford




James Gunn




Button Gwinnett




H




John Habersham




Joseph Habersham




John Hall




Lyman Hall




Alexander Hamilton




John Hancock




Edward Hand




John Hanson




Samuel Hardy




John Haring




Cornelius Harnett




Benjamin Harrison




William Harrison, Jr.




John Hart




The Hartford Convention




John Harvie




Benjamin Hawkins




Jonathan J. Hazard




William Hemsley




James Henry




John Henry, Jr.




Patrick Henry




William Henry




Joseph Hewes




Thomas Heyward, Jr.




Stephen Higginson




Whitmell Hill




Michael Hillegas, Jr.




James Hillhouse




William Hillhouse




William Hindman




Samuel Holten




William Hooper




Esek Hopkins




Stephen Hopkins




Francis Hopkinson




Josiah Hornblower




Titus Hosmer




Hospital Department of the US Continental Army




William Churchill Houston




John Houstoun




William Houstoun




John Eager Howard




David Howell




Richard Howly [Howley]




Daniel Huger




Charles Humphreys




Benjamin Huntington




Samuel Huntington




Richard Hutson




I




Independence Hall




Jared Ingersoll




The Intolerable Acts




William Irvine




Ralph Izard




J




David Jackson




Jonathan Jackson




John Jay




Thomas Jefferson




Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer




Thomas Johnson




William Samuel Johnson




Samuel Johnston




Allen Jones




Joseph Jones, Sr.




Noble Wimberly [Wymberley] Jones




Samuel Jones




Willie Jones




K




John Kean




Dyre Kearney




Rufus King




Francis Kinloch




James Kinsey




L




Lancaster Court House




John Langdon




Woodbury Langdon




Edward Langworthy




John Ten Eyck Lansing, Jr.




John Laurance




Henry Laurens




Richard Law




Arthur Lee




Francis Lightfoot Lee




Henry Lee




Richard Henry Lee




Thomas Sim Lee




William Lee




William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth




Daniel Leonard




Francis Lewis




Lexington and Concord




Ezra L’Hommedieu




The Library of the Continental Congress




Samuel Livermore




Philip Livingston




Robert R. Livingston




Walter Livingston




William Livingston




Edward Lloyd




Pierse Long




James Lovell




Isaac Low




John Lowell




Loyalists




The Lundin Letter




Thomas Lynch




Thomas Lynch, Jr.




M




James Madison




James Manning




Henry Marchant




The Massachusetts Convention




Massachusettensis vs. Novanglus




John Mathews




Timothy Matlack




Eleazer McComb




Alexander McDougall




James McHenry




Lachlan McIntosh




Thomas McKean




James McLene




The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence




James Mercer




John Francis Mercer




Samuel Meredith




Arthur Middleton




Henry Middleton




Thomas Mifflin




Nathan Miller




Nathaniel Mitchell




Stephen Mix Mitchell




The Model Treaty




James Monroe




John Montgomery




Reverend Joseph Montgomery




William Montgomery




Cadwalader Morris




Gouverneur Morris




Lewis Morris




Robert Morris




John Morton




Isaac Motte




Daniel Mowry, Jr.




Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg




N




Abner Nash




Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey




Native Americans and Their Relations with the Continental Congress




Thomas Nelson, Jr.




New York City, City Hall




The Nicola Affair




The Nonexportation Agreement of 1774




The Nonimportation Agreement of 1774




Frederick North, Lord North, Second Earl of Guilford




The Northwest Ordinance




O




The Olive Branch Petition




Henry Osborne




Samuel Osgood




Samuel Allyne Otis




P




William Paca




Mann Page




Ephraim Paine




Robert Treat Paine




Thomas Paine




The Treaty of Paris




John Parker




George Partridge




William Paterson




John Patten




Dr. Nathaniel Peabody




William Peery




Philip Pell, Jr.




Edmund Pendleton




Nathaniel Pendleton




John Penn




Pennsylvania State House




Richard Peters, Sr.




Charles Pettit




Philadelphia State House




William Leigh Pierce, Jr.




Charles Pinckney




George Plater




Zephaniah Platt




Richard Potts




The Post Office Department




The Powder Alarm




Presidents of the Continental Congress




Princeton, New Jersey




The Prohibitory Act




Q




The Quebec Act




R




David Ramsay




Edmund Jenings Randolph




Peyton Randolph




George Read




Jacob Read




Joseph Reed




James Randolph Reid




Religion and the Continental Congress




Samuel Rhoads




Richard Ridgely




Daniel Roberdeau




Caesar Rodney




Thomas Rodney




John Rogers




Jesse Root




David Ross, Jr.




George Ross




Benjamin Rumsey




Benjamin Rush




Edward Rutledge




John Rutledge




S




James Schureman




Philip John Schuyler




Gustavus Scott




John Morin Scott




Dr. Nathaniel Scudder




James Searle




Secrecy in the Continental Congress




The Secret Journal of the Continental Congress




Theodore Sedgwick




Joshua Seney




Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant




William Sharpe




Shays’ Rebellion




Roger Sherman




Dr. William Shippen




John Sitgreaves




Slavery and the Continental Congress




James Smith




Jonathan Bayard Smith




Melancton Smith




Meriwether Smith




Richard Smith




Thomas Smith




William Smith




The Solemn League and Covenant




Richard Dobbs Spaight




Joseph Spencer




The Stamp Act Congress




The Stars and Stripes




The State House, Philadelphia




Arthur St. Clair




The Staten Island Conference




John Stevens




Charles Stewart




Richard Stockton




Thomas Stone




Jonathan Sturges




James Sullivan




John Sullivan




John Swann




James Sykes




John Cleves Symmes




T




George Taylor




Edward Telfair




Thanksgiving, Resolution by the Continental Congress




George Thatcher/Thacher




Charles Thomson




Dr. Matthew Thornton




Matthew Tilghman




Dr. James Tilton




Paul Trapier




John Treadwell




The Treaty of Paris




Treaty of Alliance with France




Trenton, New Jersey




Joseph Trumbull




Dr. Thomas Tudor Tucker




V




Nicholas Van Dyke




James Mitchell Varnum




John Vining




W




James Wadsworth




Jeremiah Wadsworth




John Walker




George Walton




John Walton




Artemas Ward




Samuel Ward




George Washington




John Wentworth, Jr.




Samuel Wharton




William Whipple




Dr. James White




Phillips White




Right Reverend William White




John Williams, V




William Williams




Hugh Williamson




Thomas Willing




James Wilson




Paine Wingate




Henry Wisner




John Witherspoon




Oliver Wolcott




Joseph Wood




Turbutt Wright




Henry Wynkoop




George Wythe




Y




Abraham Yates




Peter Waldron Yates




York, Pennsylvania, Courthouse




Z




John Joachim Zubly




Historical Timeline




Primary Documents




Appendixes




Bibliography