Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress

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Web Sites

• “Congress: Proceedings of the First Continental Congress.” ushistory.org Web site. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/congress.htm.
• “Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774–1789.” Library of Congress “American Memory” Web site. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem.collections/continental/.