Wetmore, to whom the society seems at various periods to have been under great obligations, Mr. John Austin Stevens read a paper on "The Delegates of New-York in the Second Continental Congress ...

On June 11, 1776, the Second Continental Congress assigned five delegates to write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. The Committee included Thomas Jefferson from Virginia ...

To whom among them should the Second Continental Congress delegates look as most likely to successfully deliver the new government, fulfilling nationhood at this most critical juncture? While the ...

On May 15, 1776, the fifth Virginia Convention meeting in Williamsburg passed a resolution calling on their delegates at the ...

The following April, in 1775, many delegates learned of the Battles of Lexington and Concord while en route to Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress, where war was declared, and where ...

On Friday, places across the nation will recognize the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride through the Massachusetts countryside.

The first session of the Second Continental Congress lasted from May to July ... Although all the delegates recognized that America was at war, not all were prepared to relinquish ties to the ...

The first session of the Second Continental Congress lasted from May to July ... Although all the delegates recognized that America was at war, not all were prepared to relinquish ties to the ...