Albany Congress

American  

noun

American History.

1. a meeting of delegates from seven American colonies, held in 1754 at Albany, New York, at which Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan AlbanyPlanofUnion for unifying the colonies.

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Example Sentences

His postal duties took him as far south as Williamsburg, and the Albany Congress drew him as far north of New York as Albany.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

After the Albany Congress of 1754 Franklin urged the formation of two barrier colonies in the West.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

While the commissioners were conferring with the Indians in Albany, Congress was engaged in discussing the plans of a confederacy.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Eleven years after the Albany Congress, upon the news that parliament had passed the Stamp Act, a congress of nine colonies assembled at New York in October, 1765, to take action thereon.

From Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins by Fiske, John

From the outbreak of King William's War, in 1689, to 1754, the date of the Albany Congress, there were at least a dozen intercolonial conferences called to consider means for the common defense.

From Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition by James, J.A.