Presidents, First Continental Congress: Peyton Randolph, Virginia (elected 5 September 1774) Henry, Middleton, South Carolina (22 October 1774)
Presidents, Second Continental Congress: Peyton Randolph, Virginia (10 May 1775) John Hancock, Massachusetts (24 May 1775) Henry Laurens, South Carolina (1 November 1777)
John Jay, New York (10 December 1778) Samuel Huntington, Connecticut (28 September 1779) Thomas McKean, Delaware (10 July 1781)
Congress under the Articles of Confederation. John Hanson, Maryland (5 November 1781) Elias Boudinot, New Jersey (4 November 1782) Thomas Mifflin, Pennsylvania (3 November 1783)
Meeting Places of Congress: 5 September 1774, Philadelphia 10 May 1775, Philadelphia 20 December 1776, Baltimore 4 March 1777, Philadelphia 27 September 1777, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 30 September 1777, York, Pennsylvania 2 July 1778, Philadelphia 30 June 1783, Princeton, New Jersey 26 November 1783, Annapolis, Maryland

Dickinson's Plan.

Congress appointed a committee of thirteen to draw up a plan of confederation. John Dickinson took the lead in drawing up the plan of union, which he presented to the Congress on 12 July. South Carolina's Edward Rutledge complained to John Jay that Dickinson's plan "has the Vice of all...