<h3>“AMERICA”, the nation's radix
<h3> [The f[/IMG] [/B] <b style="">SOUTH CAROL[/IMG] [/B] <b style="">A letter fro[/IMG]the Colony of[/B]<b style=""> [/B]<b style="">has fixed on the 1st of
September, at
Philadelphia, for that purpose; and we with the rest of the Eastern Colonies have agreed to the same time and place[/B], New-Hampshire excepted, from whence we have not yet been favoured with their sentiments on the present situation of our
American affairs, so that we are uncertain how they intend acting, but are in hopes they will join in the general plan of operation.” <h3> <h3>“There is a talk … that it would be proper to have a Congress of the most sensible men amongst all the Colonies to meet somewhere to try to ward off the blow aimed at that great goddess of the
Dutch East India Company in
America, called AMERICAN LIBERTY. You will have discovered that I am no friend to Presbyterians, and that I fix all the blame of those extraordinary
American proceedings upon them.” <h1> <h1>Letter from New-York to a Gentleman in London. [1774-05-31] Anonymous. <h3> <h3>
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/cgi-bin/amar ... march/.235 <h3> <h3> <h3>AMERICANS drink COFFEE … BRITONS drink TEA <h3> <h3>The grand AMERICAN CONTINENTAL CONGRESS of 1774 started out in Philly PA at Daniel Smith’s (new) CITY TAVERN, in the Long Room. <h3> <h3>By the initiative of the Massachusetts Bay General Assembly, this all American Continental Congress was scheduled to convene on a Thursday, the First of September 1774. And so they did first convene, on the first evening in September: <h3> <h3>At 6:00 P.M.LAT (17:59:33 LMT). [Time moment per delegate Robert Treat Paine’s diary entry]. Then were assembled some 25 or 30 of what would become 55 delegates by Monday morning, the Fifth of September. According to delegate Silas Deane’s letter to his wife, the assembled “agreed to wait for the Gentlemen not arrived until Monday Next, before We proceeded to Business.”
<b style="">Lon[/IMG][/B] <h3> <h3>BACKGROUND – OFFICIAL RECORD <h3> <h3>Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 1 AUGUST 1774 - AUGUST 1775 <h3>Silas Deane to Elizabeth Deane [excerpted – September 1, 1774]
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?a ... lit(dg0014)) [September 1] Thursday. The Delegates from Virginia, Maryland, the Lower Counties, & New York, are not arrived. We spent this Day in visiting Those that are in Town, & find them in high Spirits particularly the Gentlemen from the Jersies, and South Carolina. In the Evening We met to the Number of about Thirty drank a Dish of Coffee together talked over a few preliminaries, & agreed to wait for the Gentlemen not arrived untill Monday Next, before We proceeded to Business.
<h3> <h3>Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 1 AUGUST 1774 - AUGUST 1775
Robert Treat Paine's Diary [excerpted - September 1, 1774] <h3> <h3>
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?a ... lit(dg0012)) [September] 1. Exceeding hot, Sultry. Breakfasted with Mr. Thos. Mifflin. Spent A.M. in returning many Visits of Ceremony to gentlemen who had visited us. Dined at Mr. Stephen Collins. P.M. Walk'd & visited. 6 o’Clock the Members of the Congress that were in Town met at City Tavern & adjourned to Monday next. Evening a Sunset Thunderstorm. Rained hard all Evening & in the Night. <h3> <h3>Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 1 AUGUST 1774 - AUGUST 1775
Samuel Ward's Diary [excerpted – September 1, 1774] <h3> <h3>
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?a ... lit(dg0013)) <h3> <h3>Sepr. 1st. <h3> <h3>The Delegates from N. Jersies & two from Province of N York arrived, conversed with many Delegates & at Evening had a Meeting at the New Tavern & took a List of those present, in all twenty five. <h3>
Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 1 AUGUST 1774 - AUGUST 1775
John Adams' Diary [excerpted – September 1, 1774] http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?a ... lit(dg0011)) 1774 Septr. 1. Thursday. … In the Evening all the Gentlemen of the Congress who were arrived in Town, met at Smiths the new City Tavern and spent the Evening together. 25 Members were come. Virginia, N. Carolina, Maryland, and the City of N. York were not arrived. Mr. William Livingston from the Jerseys, lately of New York, was there. He is a plain Man, tall, black, wears his Hair--nothing elegant or genteel about him. They say he is no public Speaker, but very sensible, and learned, and a ready Writer. Mr. Rutledge the Elder, was there, but his Appearance is not very promising. There is no Keenness in his Eye. No Depth in his Countenance. Nothing of the profound, sagacious, brilliant, or sparkling in his first Appearance. <h3>Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 1 AUGUST 1774 - AUGUST 1775
Joseph Galloway to William Franklin [excerpted September 1, 1774]
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?a ... lit(dg0015))
Saturday Septr. 3d. 1774 I am just returned from Philadelphia, where I have been to wait on, and endeavour to find out the Temper of the Delegates. Near two Thirds of them are arrived, and I conclude all will be ready to proceed on Business on Monday. <h3>
