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Hello. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

Today, episode 75, The Continental Congress in autumn of 1775.

The last few weeks have been about military operations,

so today I want to turn our attention back to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia as they got back to work in September of 1775.

I last covered the Continental Congress back in episode 68 when they were finishing up their

summer session. Now Congress had planned to restart a new session on

September 5th but had to wait another week before they could get a quorum. Part of this may have been the result of the

Independence Hurricane that I mentioned a few weeks ago. It had battered the southern colonies

and dumped rain on the central colonies for several days, making travel very difficult.

In this new session, Georgia finally sent a full delegation to the Congress.

This was the last colony to send a full delegation. In addition, a few other

delegates joined or left. The most notable being Patrick Henry, who returned to Virginia to serve as Commander-in-Chief of

Virginia's military. Also, Peyton Randolph of Virginia returned to Congress.

With his return, many expected that he would once again assume the presidency that John Hancock had taken when he left.

But Hancock refused to step down.

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