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 ...

On June 6, 50 middle and high school students from across Delaware will step into the roles of 18th-century delegates during ...

The delegates were divided on a plan of ... in an effort to seize that colonial cache of weapons. A Second Continental Congress was held in 1776 with the war underway. That second convention ...

In the fall of 1774, Adams and 55 other delegates journeyed all manner of distances by foot, horseback and carriage to Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress. Before now, few of “the ...

July 4 marks the anniversary of when Congress, comprised of delegates from ... was drafted in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson and four other members of the Second Continental Congress, including ...

During the American Revolution, he was a delegate to the Continental Congress ... Smith would become a member of the Continental Congress 1776-1778, and served in the War of Independence as ...

Furthermore, the sole delegate to have signed the document on July 4 was John Hancock, the president of the Second Continental Congress. Most members did not sign it until late August 1776 ...