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The First Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies. The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Great Britain, but their aims were not uniform at all.



Delegates from each colonies.
Colonies after the implementation of the intolerable Acts by the British, in response to the Boston Tea Party. Once again colonists called to organize a meeting or congress of all the colonies, modeled on the Stamp Act Congress. Leader of the colonies all agreed to set up a meeting necessary to come up with a response to the British actions. The colonies selected great leaders from colonies and the leaders all set out to Philadelphia .
 * < New Hampshire: ||< John Sullivan, Nathaniel Folsom ||
 * < Massachusetts Bay: ||< John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Cushing, Robert Treat Paine ||
 * < Rhode Island: ||< Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Ward ||
 * < Connecticut: ||< Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, Silas Deane ||
 * < N e w York:  ||< Isaac Low, John Alsop, John Jay, Philip Livingston, James Duane, William Floyd, Henry Wisner, Simon Boerum ||
 * < New Jersey: ||< James Kinsey, William Livingston, Stephen Crane, Richard Smith, John De Hart ||
 * < Pennsylvania: ||< Joseph Galloway, John Dickinson, Charles Humphreys, Thomas Miffin, Edward Biddle, John Morton, George Ross ||
 * < Delaware: ||< Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean, George Read ||
 * < Maryland: ||< Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Samuel Chase, Robert Goldsborough ||
 * < Virginia: ||< Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton ||
 * < North Carolina: ||< William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, Richard Caswell ||
 * < South Carolina: ||< Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Christopher Gadsden, John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge ||

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