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The Congress met from September 5 , 1774 to October 26 , 1774 . From September 5 through October 21 , Peyton Randolph presided over the proceedings; Henry Middleton took over as President of the Congress for the last few days, from October 22 to October 26 .

The Congress had two primary accomplishments. First, the Congress drafted the Articles Of Association on October 20 , 1774 . The Articles formed a compact among the colonies to boycott British goods, and to cease exports to Britain as well if the "Intolerable Acts" were not repealed. The boycott was successfully implemented, but its potential at altering British colonial policy was cut off by the outbreak of open fighting in 1775.

Its second accomplishment was to provide for a Second Continental Congress to meet on May 10 , 1775 . In addition to the colonies which had sent delegates to the First Continental Congress, letters of invitation were sent to Quebec , Saint John's Island , Nova Scotia , Georgia , East Florida , and West Florida . Only Georgia would ultimately send delegates.


DELEGATES TO THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS


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FURTHER READING


  • Edmund C. Burnet;''The Continental Congress''; 1941; 1975 reprint, Greenwood Publishing, ISBN 0837183863.

  • H. James Henderson; ''Party Politics in the Continental Congress''; 1974, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0070281432; 2002 ''(paperback)'' reprint, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 0819165255.

  • Lynn Montross; ''The Reluctant Rebels; the Story of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789''; 1950, Harper; 1970 reprint, Barnes & Noble, ISBN 038903973X.



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