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=**First Continental Congress**=

In July of 1774, Washington chaired a meeting that approved the Fairfax Resolves, written by George Mason, which rejected the British Parliament's claim of supreme authority over the colonies. In August of 1774, he attended the First Virginia Convention, which named him as a delegate the First Continental Congress in September of 1774. Met in 1774 in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia. It had two major accomplishments. First, there would be a boycott on British goods which greatly reduced British exports to the colonies. Second, they agreed to meet in May of 1775 for a Second Continental Congress. Delegates at the First Continental Congress wanted their rights...they were not yet pushing for independence. All colonies except Georgia sent delegates (Georgia was trying to get help from Britain to get peace on its Indian frontier). Patrick Henry already saw the government as dissolved while others, like PA's Joseph Galloway developed a plan that would form an American legislative body but under control of the British. Several, including John Jay and Edmund Randolph supported this plan.


 * Carpenter's Hall**

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