1. Southern delegates to the Continental Congress expressed unwillingness to use their militias outside their own borders.

2. Jefferson was delegated to the Continental Congress.

3. The first National Thanksgiving was declared by the Continental Congress in 1777.

4. The Continental Congress called upon the 13 states to draft new constitutions establishing governments more conducive to "republican" principles.

5. When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.

6. 1776 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress approves a Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

7. On June 10 th the continental congress appointed a commission to draft the declaration of independence.

8. This version of the continental congress, the long time, fierce debate eventually make significant changes.

9. The Second Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin as the first Postmaster General in seventeen seventy-five.

10. John Adams, the major figure in the Continental Congress, and George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army, are the chief players in this unusual story.

11. He actively involved in the independence movement, and representatives attend the continental congress in Virginia.

12. In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates of the Continental Congress.

13. On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee proposed a resolution to the Continental Congress stating that "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."

14. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and of the Continental Congress before he took command of the American Revolutionary army.

15. After the Treaty of Paris was signed, it was sent to the Continental Congress.

16. On June 16,1775 the Siege of Boston, the Second Continental Congress authorized the building of fortifications.