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The Continental Congress met for the first time in Philadelphia in 1774.† (source)
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His ruddy cheeks and his long, old-fashioned nose, in combination with the prematurely white hair, gave him the amiable look of a lesser founding father, some minor member of the Continental Congress teleported to the twenty-first century.† (source)
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John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress, was thirty-nine, John Adams, forty, Thomas Jefferson, thirty-two, younger even than the young Rhode Island general.† (source)
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"I've got about as much of a plan as the Continental Congress had in 1775," Tyler said.† (source)
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But to win the Germans over, the Continental Congress printed German translations of some of its deliberations, including the Articles of Confederation, and German Americans did support the Revolution.† (source)
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For the past month he had been arguing that Alexander the Great sided with the big bankers at the Continental Congress and tried to undercut Mr. Jefferson.† (source)
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Local prejudices, said Hamilton, were to be forgotten on the Senate floor, else it would simply be a repetition of the Continental Congress where "the first question has been 'how will such a measure affect my constituents and ....my re-election.'† (source)
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And in the War of the Revolution the shilling of the Continental Congress hadn't been worth, in the British phrase, a Continental damn.† (source)
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Their business wholly domestic, and subject to the authority of a Continental Congress.† (source)
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—LETTER FROM JOHN HANCOCK, PRESIDENT OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, TO GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON† (source)
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"It is not in the pages of history, perhaps, to furnish a case like ours," Washington informed John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress.† (source)
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The master and his friends could complain about the Continental Congress at such length I feared my ears might drop off.† (source)
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When, in September, an emissary from the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, Richard Penn, arrived in London with an "Olive Branch Petition" in hand, expressing loyalty to the Crown and requesting, in effect, that the King find a way to reconciliation, George III refused to have anything to do with it.† (source)
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In less than a year's time, as a delegate to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, he had emerged as one of the most "sensible and forcible" figures in the whole patriot cause, the "Great and Common Cause," his influence exceeding even that of his better-known kinsman, the ardent Boston patriot Samuel Adams.† (source)
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One of his strongest admirers and mentors was Samuel Ward of Rhode Island, a delegate to the Continental Congress, who was also the uncle of Nathanael's wife Katherine and presumably used his influence.† (source)
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THE ROUTE JOHN ADAMS and his young companion would take to Philadelphia that January of 1776 was the same as he had traveled to the First Continental Congress in the summer of 1774.† (source)
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