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meets the third Monday of every Continental Congress faced growing
month at 10 am in the Meeting room. support among the colonies for independence from Britain. On June 7,
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Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introThomas Jefferson drafted the duced the Lee Resolution, formally
Declaration of Independence in 1776 proposing that the colonies were
as part of a fivemember committee, “free and independent States” and
articulating the colonies’ reasons for absolved from allegiance to the
breaking from Great Britain.
British Crown.
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Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of
Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of
Pennsylvania, Robert R. Livingston of
New York, and Roger Sherman of
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