Provincial Congress

"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)

    “Such is the labor which the American Congress exists to protect,—honest, manly toil,—honest as the day is long,—that makes his bread taste sweet, and keeps society sweet,—which all men respect and have consecrated; one of the sacred band, doing the needful but irksome drudgery.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)