delegate to the Continental Congress

A delegate to the Continental Congress is an appointed or elected representative from one of the American colonies who participated in the intercolonial legislative assemblies that coordinated resistance to British rule and laid the groundwork for the United States’ independence.

Observed surface forms (4)

• signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ×6
• Continental Congress delegate ×5
• member of the Continental Congress ×1
• president of the Continental Congress ×1

Instances (14)

• Samuel Huntington via concept surface "signer of the United States Declaration of Independence"
• Edward Rutledge via concept surface "signer of the United States Declaration of Independence"
• Thomas McKean via concept surface "signer of the United States Declaration of Independence"
• John Hanson via concept surface "Continental Congress delegate"
• Silas Deane via concept surface "Continental Congress delegate"
• Robert Morris via concept surface "signer of the United States Declaration of Independence"
• Thomas Middleton
• Arthur Middleton (signer of the Declaration of Independence) via concept surface "signer of the United States Declaration of Independence"
  surface form: Arthur Middleton
• Philip Schuyler via concept surface "member of the Continental Congress"
• Henry Middleton
• Walter Livingston via concept surface "Continental Congress delegate"
• John Langdon via concept surface "Continental Congress delegate"
• John Lewis Gervais via concept surface "Continental Congress delegate"
• Windham, Connecticut Colony via concept surface "signer of the United States Declaration of Independence"
  surface form: Samuel Huntington