"Provincial Congress" can refer to one of several extra-legal legislative bodies established in some of the Thirteen Colonies early in the American Revolution. These bodies were generally renamed or replaced with other bodies when the provinces declared themselves states.
They include:
- Massachusetts Provincial Congress
- North Carolina Provincial Congress
- New York Provincial Congress
- Provincial Congress of New Jersey
- South Carolina Provincial Congress
- New Hampshire Provincial Congress
- New Jersey Provincial Congress
Analogous bodies include:
- Annapolis Convention (1774–1776)
- Virginia Conventions
Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or congress:
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was the law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other. It was once the same road; and Congress is [s]till full of lawyers.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
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